Page 79 - The Heimishe Newsflash Volume 1205

WEEK 25

By: E. Lax

hacks
hacks EXTRA MEASURES
Tried and True
Tips for the
home
home
Busy Balebusta
PASTA
Cooking pasta for a large family is easy – you just
dump the entire package into boiling salted water.
But what if you need just two servings? Maybe it’s
just me, but I never knew just how much raw spaghetti makes up a single serving until
I came across this hack.
Given the right kind of pasta server, the hole in the center serves as a guide for a single
serving of spaghetti or angel hair. As for different shapes of pasta, the amount that fits
into your fist is generally a serving.
SLICK OR STICK
While a true Italian will never add oil to pasta water, it does have its use. If you plan
on adding sauce to the pasta, don’t put oil – it’ll cause the sauce to slip off.
But if you want to serve the pasta plain, or with an oil-based sauce, then go ahead
Get that
and add a few drops of oil to the water. It’ll prevent the pasta from clumping up, SPEEDY SAUCE
without effecting the taste. Get that
Did you know? You can cook
Gadget
pasta directly in its sauce,
both simplifying the cooking Gadget
process and cutting time.
Boiling the noodles directly
LUSCIOUS LUKSHEN BETTY PASTA in any tomato-based sauce
You can put your Shabbos By now you’re probably already aware that results in a tastier result as Strain that pasta without strain with
the 'Silicone Clip on Strainer'. It clips on
well.
lukshen on the pot cover for your Betty Crocker pizza maker can cook to any pot or bowl for easy straining,
warm, dried out noodles, or everything (except Challos). Depending on how thick your and doesn’t take up half the space of a
sauce is, you’ll need to add
you can put them inside the How about no fail pasta? traditional colander.
pot for moist noodles that Add an even amount of pasta and room extra water for the noodles to $6.99, Amazon - ASIN B0BXD8N9Z2
absorb.
sink to the bottom and are temperature water, up to three cups of Can be purchased through Pro-click
hard to serve. each. Cover and cook for 12-15 minutes, Start by adding an extra cup
How about warm, moist stirring every five minutes. of water and add more as
the sauce thickens, until the
noodles that are easy to Depending on the pasta shape, you might pasta has reached the desired
serve? Easy! Just place them need to add a bit of extra water. When consistency.
in a wrap and boil net inside done, the water will be fully absorbed, so HOME HACKERS SHARE
the soup pot before Shabbos. there’s no need to drain. An easy way to open sealed jars is
to use a can opener.
Most regular can openers have a
notch on the side that opens jars
in seconds. You put the silver piece
NOODLE SOUP DUPE under the lid and pry it open.
A summer travel staple, noodle soup cups can be quite
bulky and hard to pack. For a more compact option, choose
instant ramen noodles instead.
Add a bit more water than the package instructions direct,
and you’ve got the same noodle soup. As an added bonus,
it costs less than half of what a noodle soup cup does. Share your Email hacks@balebusta.com
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