This is basically a war crime.
I mean… so a hot pasta salad?
That… doesn’t seem bad? No one would mind if he also put some vegetables in there and called it a pasta salad.
Pasta with cheese and mayonnaise seems like it could be alright. Rice is the weird one here imo
Hoenstly just add some green peas, a little black pepper and that would sound pretty good to me!
Wouldn’t that be added when the pasta is cold? I get the feeling OOP did this with hot pasta, possibly even heating the mayonnaise to make it more “like” Alfredo sauce.
Can’t be that bad, can it? I mean, pasta + cheesy cream sauce is a pretty tried and true combo.
Points for experimenting at least.
I’d try it.
Very few cheese sauces incorporate egg for a good reason. That assumes you give the poster the benefit of the doubt that they’re using real ingredients. Based off the pictures it’s more likely bagged pre-shredded cheese and jarred mayo which probably congreals into an emulsified hunk. Plus the amount of oil here will make you shit your pants
Was seriously thinking the same thing man. I like to cook and have spent a lot of time working LOA jobs far from anywhere you can get good ingredients. Probably gonna try it tomorrow just to see.
Mayonnaise is mostly oil and egg, which is kind of more akin to carbonara than Alfredo. That said, it has a sourness that isn’t going to mesh the same way-- basically, vinegar and/or lemon juice, which one generally wouldn’t want much of (if at all) in something meant to be creamy. Main reason I don’t particularly like it as a butter substitute in grilled cheese.
Knowing what goes into things like mayo, ketchup, Sriracha, etc, can work well when you’re in a pinch, though. It’s just harder to control the ratio of sugars, salts, and sour components so you have to offset that elsewhere.
Does no one know how to make a roux? If you already had the cheese, I’m sure you had maybe some butter or oil on hand and some flour.
Butter or oil sure. You might be surprised how many people do not keep flour handy.
Don’t even need flour for Alfredo. Its just parm, butter, heavy cream (or milk) and the drippings from the meat part (usually chicken). If not, add a splash of chicken stock.
𝅘𝅥𝅮that’s a mornay
Flour and butter are certainly cheaper than mayo
I’m a terrible cook personally, but my wife is fantastic at this stuff. Just FYI, you want a delicious cheese sauce, all you need is some milk or half & half, butter, and cheese. If you want it thicker, use less milk, or add a bit of cream cheese. Heat at a simmer and keep warm.
If you let it cool, it will firm up some and makes for a good cracker dip.
instructions unclear, I only had head cheese… it did not make a good sauce.
Lotta food crime up in here. What the food feds doing about this?
alfredo sauce?
isn’t that pasta water and butter?
That meal is for a man who doesn’t want to shit in a week
