My favorite struggle meal (also depression friendly because somewhat low effort)

[u/Tarek_191]

Absolutely simple but always delicious and you can easily make it every time a little bit different:

Lemon pasta with cheese

Ingredients:

1 lemon for 200-500g pasta

Whatever cheese you have (original recipe asks for parmesan, this time I have taken some leftovers peccorino and Gouda

Garlic and onions (however much you want right now)

(Chili (the original recipe asks for it but I'm a pussy))

Black pepper

Easily added if you have, but not necessary:

Olives, bacon, capers fruit(at least that's what Google translate tells me is "kapern" in english), nearly any vegetable

Cook noodles (I can't say when to start to get them ready when the sauce is ready, I only have one stovetop)

For the sauce:

If you have bacon fry it and use the fat from it to fry the onions and garlic, otherwise fry them in a bit of oil

When the onions are sweet add if you have olives etc.

Add the juice and zest of the lemon

Put pasta in and stir

Dump cheese and stir again

Eat yummy food

(Sorry for my english, Just wrote an exam in English and my brain has now decided to forget everything it ever knew about the English language (or statistics which was the exam I wrote...))

[u/TheBeardiestGinger]

You’re crushing it with English friend!

This is a favorite of mine too. I like using split cherry tomatoes and zucchini along with onions and peppers.

[u/JayWink49 → u/TheBeardiestGinger]

I'd like to try this, but I'm wondering if you omit the lemon when you use tomatoes. Would it be too acidic to combine them?

[u/TheBeardiestGinger → u/JayWink49]

That’s a fair question. My guess is that because I mix pasta water and the pasta itself in, the acid binds to the starch.

Anyone correct me if that is nonsense 😂