A use for small amounts of leftover pasta & tomato sauce, for lovers of spicy food. This is a super-simple "recipe" that doesn't involve any cooking or reheating.
Ingredients:
- Snack-sized amounts of cold leftover pasta & tomato sauce
- Hot sauce
- Grated Parmesan cheese
- (optional) A pinch of coarse salt
- (optional) Extra virgin olive oil
Procedure:
- Do not heat any ingredients. This is meant to be served cold.
- Mix together the tomato sauce and a bit more hot sauce than you would normally use.
- Mix together the pasta, EVOO, salt, and a bit more cheese than you would normally use.
- Mix the pasta and sauce together.
- Eat.
Explanations:
Use a little extra hot sauce, salt, and cheese because cold ingredients don't activate the taste buds as strongly as warm ingredients, so the dish might taste bland without.
The EVOO makes the pasta less sticky. Also, it tastes good mixed with Parmesan cheese.
Stir the ingredients separately to avoid pockets of hot sauce and clumps of cheese.
Stir the cheese with the pasta, rather than with the sauce, to give the noodles extra texture for the sauce to stick to.
