#FREEWRITE: Pasta 🍝

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Pasta.

What should i say about pasta?

This should be easy, right, as I’m Italian and all.

But how do you condense in 5 minutes something that’s so intrinsically part of your culture and life?

Well, there’s one major thing I can say, and it’s a good a time as any to say it. A public service announcement from your regular Italian gal, if you like. Here it goes.

PUT SALT IN THAT FRIGGIN’ WATER

That’s it. That’s what will make or break your pasta. Water must be cooked in boiling, SALTED water. Putting salt on the pasta after it’s cooked, or in the sauce, is simply not the same. So repeat after me...

I WILL, HENCEFORTH, ONLY COOK PASTA IN SALTED WATER

Thank you for reading.

Oh, my time’s not up yet. Well, what else to say. My favorite pasta is normally short. I love farfalle. But then again, I can’t deny that the best pasta ever is my grandma’s tagliatelle. When I was still in the womb, every Wednesday my grandma would make tagliatelle, and my mom ragout. Then they’d drink a glass of red wine with it and I would spend the most peaceful afternoon of my whole week.
I can’t remember any of that, of course. But a meal still doesn’t get any better than that, for me. Unless you add my boyfriend’s steak tartare in the mix...

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I was planning on publishing a regular post today. But then life got in the way, and I didn’t have time to finish that. Also, skipping today’s prompt seemed disrespectful. To my grandmother, at least.

As I said in yesterday’s post, I’m participating in a #freewrite project in which the two authors, @mariannewest and @improv, give a specific prompt each day and each participant has exactly 5 minutes to expand on it. No more, no less. And no revising. What’s written is written and you’re free to publish it as a post, as a comment on the original prompt, or not publish it at all.

I don’t know whether I’ll be consistent in my daily participation, but so far it’s a fun exercise and I’m also enjoying reading other people’s freewrites.

Thanks again to the two project creators.

You can find the introductory post here and today’s prompt thread here.

By the way, that picture up there is not of my grandmas tagliatelle, of course. That’s a plate off spaghetti with sea urchins that my boyfriend cooked last week. Delicious!
Also, he loves taking picture of people when they eat (me, specifically).