By: Miloni Patel

Sometimes cooking is the best way to unravel after a long day and be able to taste all your hard work. Pasta is an easy dish made all around the world and served in many ways. This is a quick and easy set of steps to make the best creamy pasta! Be sure to follow the instructions exactly to come out with the best product! You will need to gather ingredients before starting! Lastly, don’t forget to add your own twist on this recipe based on what your taste buds enjoy. You can always spice it up with seasoning, some meat, or additional vegetables.

1. This should serve three people and the total cooking time should be about 15 minutes so a great after work snack!
2. The ingredients you will need are listed below:
3. 2 cups milk any fat %
   1 1/2 cups chicken broth
   3 tbsp butter
   1 large garlic clove minced
   8 ounces fettuccine
   1/2 cup heavy cream
   3/4 cup freshly grated parmesan plus more for garnish
   Salt & pepper to taste
   Parsley for garnish
4. Make sure you use a skillet large enough to fit the pasta.
5. Then place the skillet on the stove over medium-high heat. Add milk, chicken broth, butter, and garlic. Then leave the solution to simmer then add pasta.
6. Make sure you move the pasta around every 30 seconds or so until it is completely soft just to make sure they don’t stick to each other. Once the pasta is softened.
7. Then reduce heat to medium and stir every couple of minutes.
8. After about 6 minutes, the pasta should be almost done with the exception of liquid covering the base of the skillet. Add cream and parmesan and mix.
9. Simmer, stirring occasionally, for around two minutes, until the sauce is thicker for additional taste and the pasta is cooked. If you cook it too long and the sauce is chunky, add a splash of hot tap water, it will go back to silky with a few tosses.
10. Adjust salt and pepper to taste and serve immediately, garnished with freshly grated parmesan and parsley

Congratulations! You have just created one of the most popular dishes around the world!

This is an amazing quick and tasty meal to make, alfredo pasta! This image is courtesy of Epicurious a website which writes many entires on the best recipes!

By: Miloni Patel

Cooking is a wonderful skill to have in the back of your mind whether you are moving out, inviting people over, trying to start a new hobby, or want to mix it up a little and have a home-cooked meal. Although cooking is fun-filled and satisfying, it can get frustrating if you’re new to the idea. Here are some tips on how to be a successful cook, making it a relaxing and enlightening experience. The first thing to note is to use your hands! Often new cooks are afraid to get a little dirty but make sure in addition to tools you use hands if needed. The second tip is to mess with your dishes a little. Most times even if you follow a recipe exactly the dish doesn’t come out the way you want. Try altering things, play around with seasoning, new ingredients, and you will come up with a great dish with your own twist in no time! The third piece of advice is to try what works for you. Everyone had a different environment in the kitchen with different techniques and interests. Figure out how you like to cook, what dishes you prefer, and what your taste pallet is. Lastly, be patient and don’t be afraid of failure. All cooks have started off somewhere, and practice makes perfect so go out and try something new and who knows you might end up loving it!

This image shows a women enjoying cooking from home supporting Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s findings that cooking has a positive impact on health. Image courtesy of Mother, Baby, and Child.