Pasta done quick with a blender

August 16, 2010 by Lisa

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A speed blender is going to help make life for your kinds and yourself a lot more easier than you would have ever imagined. Not only is it going to be easier and faster to cook meals that you’ve been used to eating fro a whole, but the immense versatility of any blender that you get is going to let you cook a lot more dishes than what would have been possible without a blender. Italian food takes a lot of time to cook if it has to be done right, sure I can whip up italian anything in a couple of minutes is the time and the kids demand it, but usually I like to spend atleast an hour making and cooking the sauces, dressings and the condiments for the dish.

The thing with pasta is that in order to make it taste like the way the Italians intended it to be all the ingredients for the dressing need to be prepared fresh. The major component of spaghetti and meatballs or pasta in general is the tomatoes that go into them. While pretty much everyone uses tomato puree nowadays, the truth is and I know deep down inside you know it too that they taste nothing like real tomatoes. Coming from someone who has tried pretty much every available brand of tomato puree, the taste is off by a few factors namely the tanginess of the tomatoes as well as the sauciness of the puree. And some of the bad ones are so saucy to taste that the tanginess is missing altogether.

Once you’ve got the tomatoes and the herbs into the blender (I prefer to use the Vita Mix 1300 TurboBlend 4500) and are done chopping all of the inions sauté the resulting paste and plop it into a pan with your boiled pasta for the best tasting pasta that you children have ever eaten.