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Cooking & Baking

buzzycrumbhunger

(1,923 posts)

1. I have pasta sauce percolating in the IP

Reply to NJCher (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2026, 04:27 PM

Saturday

It’s been a revoltingly long time since I’ve made it, and I realized my son kind of took over the dinner duties since he’s been looking for work. A little peeved I can’t put mushrooms in (he thinks he hates them), but I only have dried morels and I hate to have to powder them just to fool him.

Just threw everything else in there, though: olive oil, tomato paste, Better Than Boullion (veg), half the spices on the rack, pepperoncini, diced carrots and celery, and a couple big scoops of TVP (basically ground “burger”). Will let him choose the pasta (pick bucatini!)

Figure I’ll throw together some bread dough and make WW bread sticks for sopping up the excess.