Cream and Butter Sauce
Oh my people – do your hear your arteries clenching? Cream, butter, cheese? Oh my!
This is Marcella’s version of the classic ‘Roman’ sauce: Alfredo. We’ve all had Alfredo sauce. We’ve all seen it in small plastic containers in the supermarket. We’ve all seen ads for that horrible ‘Italian’ restaurant chain with so-called Alfredo sauce scooped out all over any assortment of pasta, meat, or fish.
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You may think that you have tried Alfredo sauce but trust me when I say you won’t know what hit you when you try the real deal baby!
This sauce is simple – whipping cream, butter, cheese, nutmeg, salt, and pepper. Use the best ingredients you have. Whip it together and I guarantee that you will NEVER look at those wee plastic containers of store bought Alfredo sauce again.
Marcella writes ‘if a fat, fresh white truffle should happen to come your way, one of the best uses for it is to shave it over pasta tossed with Alfredo sauce’. Sadly I had no such treat but I can only imagine how wonderful that would be. SIGH
I first made this for our anniversary dinner back in May but have since brought it to the table 4 more times – yes, it is that simple AND good!
You won’t go wrong with this one. . . . and who really cares if the bathing suit fits THIS year anyway?
Jerry, something is wrong here. I see no thick, gloppy white sauce drowning unidentifiable noodles. This is Alfredo? :evil grin:
Yes deborah – it is shocking to think that your ‘friends’ at the local Olive Garden might have it wrong! GASP
Oh boy oh boy, I would love some of that right now!
There are more variations possible in the basic combination of pasta, butter, and cheese than most people may have dreamt of. It’s part of the genius of this cuisine that, with what might be less than absolute objectivity, I think reigns above all others, pace Julia Child.
The reason Italians can nourish themselves freely with butter and cheese and not worry about arteries is that they walk, to work, to home, to school, to the market, to the movies, to romantic encounters. Put that in your diet.
I’m sold! This looks yummy.