New Year's Eve, the hubby decides he doesn't want paella, or lobster mac and cheese, but this Pinterest post pie:
So I'll be trying a new recipe on New Year's Eve? Ok. Challenge accepted.
Worried it would be dry. Worried it would take hours to put all those little rigatonis in the springform pan I hoped I could dig out from my new organization system that is just as bad as last year's new organization system. What I didn't worry about, and should have, was that we'd have unexpected company coming to stay the night, with fur friends in tow!
No worries, I love to feed people, but now the pressure was on!
Got off to a good start by remembering that I was boiling pasta and put down the vacuum just in time to take the tiny tubes off the stove and plunge into cold water. Putting them in neat little rows was kind of enjoyable, and only took a few minutes. Until my newly-minted 6-year-old decided she was so grown up now that she needed to help. Adult prep time = 3 minutes. Child prep time = 5 minutes plus breaks to discuss different pasta shapes and how they look like logs.
Simmered the sauce for hours and poured it on after the ricotta and egg mixture. Tip: shake that ricotta into the pan like you're mad your lovely husband invited friends to stay the night New Year's Eve, and then took a nap.
The cheese floated down into each tiny tube. The lovely little suckers stood up like good little soldiers and soaked up all the moisture from the sauce to turn out perfectly tender.
Sauce on the side is a big thing in our family, and it worked out really well. This was one of our best New Year's Eves ever, a fantastic time with friends we hadn't seen in years, and we got a clean house out of it to boot!
Happy New Year! May your year be as lovely as you wish and better than expected!
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