Decided to revisit the Winter section and try something year-round: Spaghetti.
This recipe calls for butternut squash pasta and a mushroom bolognese, and a topping of parmesean and some basil.
Traditionally, spaghetti is as simple as getting a box of pasta, a jar of sauce, a can of parmesean, boiling the pasta, and heating the sauce. Plain and simple. Not in the Stardew kitchen, though!
To start, we had to carve out the squash and roast it. Then we had to make it into a dough and chill it for at least 2 hours and up to overnight, causing this to be a 2-day process. Then we had to do something we never did before: use the dough to make the pasta from scratch.
This was a process that took us almost an hour by itself. First, we had to divide the dough and thin it out enough to make the pasta the right size. All the time, we had to keep dusting the work area and dough with flour. Lesson learned:
be liberal with flour as that prevents the pasta from sticking together, which did happen a lot; some did come out properly, though.
When that was done, we moved on to the bolognese, which called for garlic, white button and cremini mushrooms, celery, carrots, yellow onion, red pepper flakes, oregano, tomato paste, pureed tomatoes, dry red wine, and some butter. This was a very rich and hearty sauce that is quite unlike any spaghetti topping I've ever had before.
Finally, we boiled the noodles when it was time to serve everything together and topped them with the bolognese, parmesean, and basil.
