What Sauce should I make for my Bucatini tonight?

[Ginevra]

I have been making it as Bucatini Puttanesca the past few times I made it (absolutely amazingly delicious, btw) but it was icy this weekend and I never got to the store and am missing cherry tomatoes, white wine and zucchini for that. 

I do, however, have heavy cream, marsala wine, mushrooms, garlic, onions and I think there’s still a bell pepper in there. Would you make a marsala-cream sauce? I haven’t ever put those together but they seem like they would go. Or does anyone have a better idea for a delicious sauce? 

If worse comes to worst, I can use spaghetti sauce and call it good enough, but that really seems like a criminal waste for a pasta type that is a) hard to find; and b) specifically designed in a way that whatever sauce you cook it in gets all deliciously inside of the hole in the noodle. 

Mmmm. I can hardly wait for dinner...

[AmandaVT]

Do you have any red chili flakes? I'd saute up garlic and onion, toss w/ chili flakes, olive oil and butter. Toss with lots of parm. You can make it as spicy or not as you like. It works really well with mafaldine, which looks like lasagna's skinny cousin.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Dreamergal said:

No spaghetti sauce, no, no, no. Cream sauce it is. Specifically roasted garlic cream sauce.

Roasting the garlic

https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-roast-garlic-in-the-oven-5341

Roasted garlic cream sauce

https://www.thechunkychef.com/roasted-garlic-cream-sauce/

If you want to make the sauce healthy and basically want to take a short cut, just immersion blend a whole can of white beans until it is paste and lighten the cream and cheese. Sorry I do not have exact amounts, I just do the taste test.Any liquid you add make it stock.

Caramalize half an onion, preferably red. Add the mushrooms and peppers. Toss the pasta. I like to add some fresh herbs in mine, kids not so much. Mostly basil and thyme.

Do you have grape tomatoes, capers ? 

I like to halve grape tomatoes and toss in some capers on mine with a dash of lemon.

 

 

That sounds delicious! 

I do have capers and I used them. I made a modified version of the Puttanesca sauce. I sauted onion and garlic in olive oil, then added anchovy past, oregano and red pepper flakes. I deglazed with Marsala wine, then added a quart of chicken stock. I put the pasta directly in the sauce to cook; that way it absorbs into the pasta and is extra tasty. After about 5 minutes cooking, I added 2 cubes (about 2 T) tomato paste and two cans of diced tomatoes. I poured in a half cup of heavy cream. Cooked it gently 5-8 more minutes. Added capers. Served with fresh parmesan grated on top and chopped Kalamata Olives (for those of us who will eat the olives). 

I do really like the idea of immersion blending white beans. Yummy. I have a vegan chili recipe that uses mashed kidney beans in addition to whole beans, to give it body. Very good. 

[KungFuPanda]

I'd probably do a garlic cream or an alfredo with all of those veggies you listed.  I'm not sure how I feel about a marsala cream sauce, but I'd try it if you made some for me!

[Spy Car]

1 hour ago, Quill said:

That sounds delicious! 

I do have capers and I used them. I made a modified version of the Puttanesca sauce. I sauted onion and garlic in olive oil, then added anchovy past, oregano and red pepper flakes. I deglazed with Marsala wine, then added a quart of chicken stock. I put the pasta directly in the sauce to cook; that way it absorbs into the pasta and is extra tasty. After about 5 minutes cooking, I added 2 cubes (about 2 T) tomato paste and two cans of diced tomatoes. I poured in a half cup of heavy cream. Cooked it gently 5-8 more minutes. Added capers. Served with fresh parmesan grated on top and chopped Kalamata Olives (for those of us who will eat the olives). 

I do really like the idea of immersion blending white beans. Yummy. I have a vegan chili recipe that uses mashed kidney beans in addition to whole beans, to give it body. Very good. 

That dinner sounds good!

My kind of meal, for sure.

Bill

[Ausmumof3]

If you have bacon I’d make carbonara.