The Empty-Handed Epicurian: Salmon pasta

This is not what your food will look like if you follow the sort of recipe below.

Josh and I pursue a life of fabulousness, as you should well know by now! However, our financial woes can be a bit of a... hindrance to this lofty goal.

We usually have a fairly bare fridge. I know, you thought it was fully stocked with brie, caviar, and champagne. Well sorry to disappoint! We tend to end up with a few random odds and ends towards the end of the week that seem impossible to eat on their own, so I have been applying my mildly creative cooking a lot lately.

Tonight I made angel hair pasta with an olive oil garlic Parmesan sauce with Alaskan salmon. Sound impressive? Well, in this debut of what I hope is a recurring thing, I'll tell you how it most assuredly is not.

I started with a salmon burger that my lovely older sister gave to me last time I visited her. I threw that on the George Foreman and forgot about it for a while.

Then I pulled some angel hair pasta I made roughly a week ago out of the fridge and turned it upside down over a bowl. Imagine the shape of canned cranberry sauce here please.

I covered that in oregano, garlic, Parmesan cheese, and olive oil. Plus some Colby Jack cheese because it was in the fridge. I stirred it around and threw it in the microwave for two minutes.

Then I drank a cocktail I had leftover from last night.

When the microwave beeped I checked the salmon and saw it was not done. So I threw the pasta in the microwave for two more minutes. The salmon was done then, so I threw that on top of the pasta and chopped it up with a fork and mixed it in. Bam, fancy sounding entree.

The most important things to have when trying to eat something that doesn't make you want to vomit, while costing you nothing at the time, is to keep your goddamned spice cabinet stocked! I cannot emphasize this enough. Olive oil also goes a long way. Relatives who don't want you to starve to death are awesome contributors to the cause as well.

And booze. Always have a drink while cooking this stuff. That way if it backfires, which it will from time to time, you will not give a crap!

I hope to get another Doctor Who recap up soon, but I've been fairly distracted lately so I'm not making any promises!

(Note: totally wanted to call this "Ghetto Gourmet," but apparently that's already a thing.)