Also, how much pasta do I cook for that many people? After the noodles are cooked, do I leave them in the water? Do I rinse them? I understand I'm not to put oil or butter on them. Professional help please!
2007-02-09 12:40:57 · 6 answers · asked by cooker 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
I boiled salted water and put the uncooked noodles in it without any further cooking with the hopes of having them ready when the family came home when everyone was running late. The noodles disintegrated in the pot, so I wouldn't do that. I would get my sauce cooked well ahead of time and keep it simmering, but keep a big pot of water hot, nearly boiling, and keep adding water to it, so that about 10 minutes ahead of serving the pasta I could cook the noodles and add them to the hot spaghetti sauce. A lot of good cookbooks have a "cooking in quantities" or "cooking for a crowd" sections. Have a great party. Get one of those great big platter/bowls that are kind of flat and serve the pasta in that and if you have a really big platter to put under it, surround the pasta bowl with garlic bread and get one of those crazy pasta servers that have all the teeth on it.
2007-02-09 12:53:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
cook 12 lbs of pasta and about 12 quarts of spaghetti sauce. combine it and put into large serving pans and keep it all in the oven at about 250 degrees until the quests arrive. Don't rinse the noodles, just drain the water. You want the starchiness of the noodles to stay intact so the sauce sticks to the noodles when you eat it,and it improves the flavor of the sauce.
2007-02-09 20:48:30 · answer #2 · answered by martin h 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get some of those long oblong pans that have the little candles burning under them. You put water in the bottom pan and the dish in the top tray. When you take the noodles out from boiling them - make sure you stir in olive oil. That will keep the noodles soft and not stick together.
2007-02-09 20:45:49 · answer #3 · answered by Topez 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
put the sauce on the pasta, put it in a foil pan covred in the oven at the lowest temp available.
2007-02-09 20:50:50 · answer #4 · answered by KRIS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
buy 1 of them food warmer things
2007-02-09 20:43:31 · answer #5 · answered by JAG 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lots of Tabasco sauce...preferably red so that your guests don't notice it until the last second!
2007-02-09 20:48:21 · answer #6 · answered by dardekkis 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋