| Prep Time | 15 minutes |
| Cook Time | 30 minutes |
| Passive Time | 0 minutes |
| Servings |
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Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- .75 pound white mushrooms slice
- .5 pound cool mushrooms shitake, a mix, something not white, sliced
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 2 oz sherry or red wine those ounces be fluid
- 1 cup whipping cream aka heavy cream
- 8 oz fettuccine
- 1.5 teaspoons thyme chopped
- 1.5 teaspoons tarragon chopped
- 3 teaspoons chives chopped
- 9 tablespoons parmesan or romano cheese shredded
- whatever you want salt and pepper
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Instructions
- Sometimes you need love. So you heat oil in a large skillet via the heat rank of medium, right?
- Watch that oil slowly bubble up the way love does.
- When the oil is warm put those mushrooms in there and stir it up. Sure, the mushroom shrink eventually, but look at how they all seem to love each other. A writer's life should be like that, right? Building each other up instead of tearing down. Add a little salt because we are salty people.
- Brown those mushrooms, which will take about 10 minutes.
- Put some garlic in with the mushrooms and the tiny bit of salty writer personality.
- Garlic is the smell of warm nights and memoirs by ladies in their 40s. Look beyond this.
- Cook the garlic for 1 minute. Add the sherry and/or red wine. This is the smell of ladies reading other ladies' memoirs and feeling envious. Watch that wine evaporate.
- Try to not let your love hopes evaporate. You're a writer and you need love. You also need health care. Sometimes these magical things come together in the form of a spouse with a job that has benefits.
- Add chicken stock. Add pepper and salt to taste. Get it warm enough to simmer and then cool things back down like you're in a romantic comedy and you have commitment issues.
- Cook about five minutes. It will be a thicker substance, sort of like a writer in a relationship after five years of steady meals and healthcare.
- Add cream. Stir. Simmer it for another five. It should get thicker because you're at the 10 minute/year relationship mark and this is to be expected.
- Hey! Did you forget about the pasta? MAKE THE PASTA! I know! I know, we were all focused on the sexy, love part of the relationship - the tasty part, but we need structure and a good foundation, too.
- Cook the pasta and when it's done, drain it. Don't rinse it. Put it in a bowl.
- Go back to your creamy, sexy mushroom mixture and all of those chopped things (tarragon, chives, thyme) and turn off the heat. That's a hard phrase to write when you're talking about love, but trust me and do it.
- Stir in the cheese - ½ cup of it Let it melt.
- Mix all this up with the pasta. Then use the rest of the cheese and sprinkle it on top to make the Love Pasta look pretty like an Instagram photo.