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[Anonymous No.17790649]

how do I spice up my cacio e pepe?
the dish itself is too minimal for me
although i do like that it is easy to prepare

[Anonymous No.17790654]

After the pasta is boiled, remove the pot from the burner and replace it with your fucking hand

[Anonymous No.17790661]

Did you try adding pepper?

[Anonymous No.17790684]

>>17790649
You might just need to add more pepper and cheese. But you could add sauteed broccoli, mushroom, eggplant, and/or garlic. Some basil or whatever herb you like is good too.

[Anonymous No.17790897]

>>17790649
>tfw not enough for the cute anime girl

[Anonymous No.17791088]

>>17790649
Not every dish needs to be heavily spiced

[Anonymous No.17791120]

>>17790649
Are you using real block pecorino and using whole black peppercorns that you are freshly cracking onto the pasta? It is a fairly strongly flavored dish, I am worried you are using pre shredded cheese or not pecorino romano and are using mccormick black pepper.

[Anonymous No.17791141]

>>17790649
>how do I spice up my cacio e pepe?
You don`t. Its not supposed to be like that.
>the dish itself is too minimal for me
Not my problem.
>although i do like that it is easy to prepare
Its not. Actual good cacio and pepe Is not something easy to make.

[Anonymous No.17791871]

>>17790649
more pepper, different stronger cheese

[Anonymous No.17792002]

>>17790649
Add cyanide. You'll love it.

[Anonymous No.17792242]

>>17790649
Buy a better pecorino and use more pepper
> although i do like that it is easy to prepare
Now it's clear you are very likely making it wrong

[Anonymous No.17792247]

Toast the pepper in the pan before adding a ladle of pasta water to infuse it. Be generous with the pepper and have variety in pepper size.

[Anonymous No.17792320]

>>17790649
Take us through your recipe OP, can't help without knowing what you do

[Anonymous No.17792603]

>>17790661
The fuck do you think the pepe part of cacio e pepe means?

[Anonymous No.17793986]

>>17790649
Why are people obsessed with cacio e pepe now? Never gave it much importance.

t. Italian

[Anonymous No.17794010]

>>17792242
>Now it's clear you are very likely making it wrong
Anon, it's pasta, butter, pepper and two cheeses. It's one of the easiest recipes to make and is just a little more complicated than making kraft dinner. It's easy if a little time consuming.

[Anonymous No.17794018]

>>17790897
yes you are!

[Anonymous No.17794028]

>>17793986
It's now viewed as the italian equivalent of the old 'chef has to cook an egg to prove themselves' story. One of the most simple pasta dishes elevated due to a cultural strive for perfection in minimalism.

[Anonymous No.17794050]

>>17790649
This image should not be 3.66MB. I feel as if this isn't just a picture of an anime girl but instead some kind of encoding cipher

[Anonymous No.17794057]

>>17793986
you're obviously not from Rome. It's a big deal there


>>17794028
> One of the most simple pasta dishes elevated due to a cultural strive for perfection in minimalism.
99% of pasta dishes are simpler than cacio e pepe, retard
Actually it's one of the few semi-hard pasta dishes I can think of

[Anonymous No.17794080]

>>17790649
Add some sauteed vegetables. I like zucchini. Broccoli would work.

You can also upgrade it to carbonara.

[Anonymous No.17794082]

I tried making cacio e pepe and the cacio turned into a big gooey blob with very little mixed into the pasta water. Fuck you, Italians!

[Anonymous No.17794083]

>>17794057
>>17794028
Yeah I'm Tuscan, I thank God every day that I'm not Roman.
I've had cacio e pepe both in Rome and elsewhere, I always thought the classic roman pasta dish was amatriciana and carbonara. I learned something new.

[Anonymous No.17794101]

>>17794057
>> One of the most simple pasta dishes elevated due to a cultural strive for perfection in minimalism.
>99% of pasta dishes are simpler than cacio e pepe, retard
>Actually it's one of the few semi-hard pasta dishes I can think of

Simple ≠ Easy
Complex ≠ Hard

Complex comes from the Latin complectī (“to entwine, encircle, compass, infold”). It means something consists of many different and connected parts.

Cacio e pepe very simple. It's pasta with cheese and black pepper. It's not easy to do right, but it's certainly not complicated.

[Anonymous No.17794105]

>>17790649
>the dish itself is too minimal for me
The entire point of cacio e pepe is that it's minimalistically simple you dense fuck. This is like asking how to cook your meat so that it's tougher.

[Anonymous No.17794142]

>>17794101
> Complex comes from the Latin complectī (“to entwine, encircle, compass, infold”). It means something consists of many different and connected parts.
You should stick with non-dead languages, it could be works better in a conversation
Cūliōnis

[Anonymous No.17794171]

>>17794142
>Tricky as a synonym for complex

Ah yes it's quite complicated getting the puzzle pieces to fit together.

[Anonymous No.17794189]

>>17794171
because complex can be used to generically describe something "not easy to deal with"
All the latin-derived languages maintained this acception of the world.
Deal with it Hircus

[Anonymous No.17794194]

>>17794189
*word

[Anonymous No.17794245]

>>17790649
dumb frogposter

[Anonymous No.17794253]

>anime pic for zero reason
kill yourself

[Anonymous No.17794259]

>>17794253
>zero reason
You just bumped the thread because of that picture

[Anonymous No.17794262]

heh caca e peepee

[Anonymous No.17794273]

>>17790649
You've mastered making the sauce from pasta water and cheese alone, yes?

[Anonymous No.17794283]

>>17794010
>butter
nope
>two cheeses
nope

[Anonymous No.17794383]

Add white pepper too

[Anonymous No.17794438]

cut up some hot dogs

[Anonymous No.17794503]

>A little garlic, and a shitload of pepper in some olive oil, lightly saute
>Add in cooked pasta, stir
>add in some lemon juice
>add in some pasta water and arugula, let it wilt a bit
>add in a bunch of grated parm
>add chopped up bacon/pancetta on top

[Anonymous No.17794524]

>>17794503
You forgot to say something to the effect of it still being cacio e pepe.

[Anonymous No.17794543]

>>17794524
No one cares you guinea fuck

[Anonymous No.17794622]

>>17794524
OP doesn't want cacio e pepe, they want a quick, easy pasta dish; and anyone trying to suggest adding 1 ingredient as a fix have too many chromosomes.

[Anonymous No.17794660]

>>17794503
>add in some pasta water and arugula,
> heated arugula
Just stick with soylent or anything that doesn't require cooking or having tastebuds

>>17794543
corn syrup nigger spotted

[Anonymous No.17794689]

>>17794660
Says the actual nigger.

[Anonymous No.17794706]

>>17794660
What's wrong with heating arugula?

[Anonymous No.17794739]

>>17794660
Did your uncle molest you while he force fed you warm arugula anon?

[Anonymous No.17794758]

>>17794622
>how do I spice up my cacio e pepe
Sure sounds like hes asking how to make better cacio e pepe.

[Anonymous No.17794834]

>>17794758
Ah, I think I see the problem, you only read 1 line of the OP's post; there are actually 3.

[Anonymous No.17794971]

>>17794834
And none of them request a new recipe.

[Anonymous No.17795094]

>>17791120
This.

[Anonymous No.17795108]

Add moar pepper. Make sure its freshly ground black pepper.
If you wanna be really extra throw some long pepper in there too.

Also if you accept the premise that cacio e pepe is basically mac n cheese you can basically throw anything else that you would throw in with that in there. I've put deenz or tuna in there for a sort of 'tuna-noodle' type thing and it was pretty good.

[Anonymous No.17796682]

>>17794689
I'm not american buddy

[Anonymous No.17796698]

>>17790649
I wonder what her armpits look like

[Anonymous No.17796731]

>>17791141
It's pasta cheese and pepper how could that be hard