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ok listen. I am grabbing you by the shoulders and shaking you. listennn

recently I have been craving a creamy mushroom sauce for pasta. you know the type. so last night I made one.

Budget Bytes

Creamy Mushroom Herb Pasta

This rich and Creamy Mushroom Herb Pasta is a surprisingly fast and simple to way to have a gourmet meal at home. Step by step photos.

and listen. friends. homies. internet strangers. it was SO GOOD. it was so good that the whole time I was eating it I was like "what if I cried about how good this is." I sent pictures to my siblings and they were soooo jealous. it was so incredibly tasty.

my grocery store was out of the really cheap canned vegetable broth so I used beef broth and also who even knows what kind of mushrooms are what,,,, I think the ones I used were labeled as "white." also I pan fried some zucchini with butter, garlic, and salt to go with it and that was an excellent flavor combination.

also I tend to like a smaller sauce to carbohydrate ratio than most people so I just put the sauce on top of the pasta when I was ready instead of mixing them together. and also I just had the leftovers and it's as tasty as it was before.

I tried converting to grams and mL for anyone who wants that below the cut

225ish g mushrooms

340 g fettuccine (I just made the whole package since I wasn't mixing it in tho)

2 cloves garlic, minced

42 g butter

27 g all-purpose flour

354 mL vegetable broth (I used 396 tho bc that's how much there was in the can)

3 sprigs fresh thyme (or like, 0.23 g... idk dude just do like 3 pinches or smth)

like 2.4 g rubbed sage (I hope I'm doing this right I am trying so hard you guys)

118 mL half and half

salt and pepper to taste

every single person on this bus is sitting on the left side. there are a bunch of boxes of diesel exhaust fluid on the floor in the back. what's going on

i think the vast majority of my problems could be solved with a therapist and a chiropractor actually

ok literally nobody at all asked but these are my go-to cooking websites

1. Betty Crocker for if I want to just learn how to basically make a thing in general, like white sauce (I do use that one as a base pretty often) or that time when I was like wait what temperature is good for fish. this is in fact because my family had a betty crocker cookbook when I was growing up. the non-dessert food is seasoned really bland tho. this is the tiniest small little bit further than white suburban ketchup-is-spicy mom but like it's still plenty bland.

2. Budget Bytes usually I use this one if I have some specific dish I want, like recently, a creamy mushroom pasta sauce and garlic bread. I look up some keywords and browse a little bit to see they have what I want and if I don't then I go to the rest of the internet. just the thing is that I trust the seasoning on this blog and the recipes tend to be pretty cheap and not too complicated.

3. King Arthur Baking I usually only use this one if I'm at home bc I do not have all the ingredients they want or the finances to get them all or the time to make a lot of their stuff while I'm at college, but they're good. they have a really nice microwave jam recipe and I really like their tomato soup, though, so I make those very occasionally.

honorary shoutout to sugar spun run bc I have only ever made one recipe from there but I also make it literally every week so. it's the pizza crust and it only has to rise for a half hour which, I mean. that's pretty good.

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