Binging with Babish Pasta Aglio e Olio from Chef

  Hey baby, I hear the blues a-callin'
Tossed salad and scrambled eggs   Rude Boy   Stop your running around   It's time to straighten right out   Stop your running around   Making trouble everyday   Ah-ah Rudy, A message to you Rudy   A message to you   Rude Boy!   Growing older each day  Mmm Hey guy's what's up I'm back with a new episode And it's been kind of a long week so I wanted to make something a little quicker, a little easier this week And I've always wanted to try that Pasta Aglio e Olio from that flirtatious scene in "Chef" And look at this, it only has six ingredients - perfect. So we're going to start by bringing a large pot of heavily salted water to a boil And while that comes up to a boil, we're going to peel our garlic And this is a great little trick You take all the cloves of garlic and you put 'em in a Tupperware And give them a good shake Like just shake the hell out of it And then, when you open it up you have perfect peeled... Oh that didn't even really work.. Did it? I guess we're going to peel these by hand So get your tools ready And get to peeling.

Be sure to use your scotch as necessary Now we want to slice all the cloves of garlic very thinly And put them aside while we pick our parsley leaves off their stems. Now we want to get rid of any big, thick stems, but smaller ones are okay. Because we're going to chop this pretty fine. So we're going to chop it up very fine Before heading over to the stove and add our pasta to the boiling water and add about a half a cup of olive oil to a large saut pan Once shimmering, we're going to add the garlic And just when you start to see it turning brown, add the red pepper flake and remove it from the heat The garlic will continue to cook until a nice toasty golden brown At which point you're going to add the pasta We're going to add back some pasta water to help create more of a cohesive sauce Before mixing in the parsley A big squeeze of lemon juice And give it one last check for seasoning And hit it with any salt and pepper that it needs Give it a good stir And then plate it up just like John does with a big carving fork Make a nice little nest like that, in the centre of the bowl Now this is an example of a recipe that is greater than the sum of its parts It was absolutely fantastic If you don't believe me, let's hear what I said after my first bite "mmm...

Holy sh*t that was good" Mmm It really was that good. The only thing missing was John Favreau for me to make sexy eyes at.