Wait, why is November fish month? It’s clearly turkey month! Well, remember when I said earlier this month that November would be random Good Eats episode month? And how I rolled the dried pasta episode, which is really recipe light? Well, I re-rolled and got Hook, Line, and Dinner, which was the fish episode. So I did a few fish dishes.
Friday, November 7, 2014 – Last month was invent a simple recipe and practice it a few times. This month was pick a random Good Eats episode from season 1 and do a bunch of recipes in that episode.
So I randomly picked Season 1 Ep 11 – Pantry Raid 1: Use Your Noodle, which was an episode about how to cook dried pasta. Kinda boring actually, since anyone worth their salt knows how to cook dried pasta. There weren’t even any recipes in this episode, just Alton Brown doing a tutorial of how to cook dried pasta, followed by him tossing in whatever he had lying around.
Fortunately, I got a copy of Good Eats: The Early Years (aka, Volume 1 of the Good Eats book series that Alton wrote when Food Network initially refused to monetize the Good Eats TV show by releasing the episodes in any physical or online format). And in the chapter for Pantry Raid 1 (pp 60-63), there is a recipe for tossing noddles with melted butter and toasted crumbled saltine crackers.