I souped my pasta

It's over bros/siss/xes

I boiled the pasta, and instead of draining the water, I accidentally added the tomato sauce into the water with the pasta. My pasta is now soup.

The only saving grace is that I usually undercook my pasta and eat it crunchy. So I can still reduce the "soup" a bit before it becomes overcooked.

I just tasted the pasta. I added salt to it which was a mistake because the sauce I bought also has salt in it. I now am beginning to understand how that "if I cook even the simplest of food I will somehow fuck it up and poison everybody" gag in anime works.

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Cooking just takes practice. I was a chef at one point in my life, but as a kid I once accidentally replaced all the sugar in a brownie recipe with more flour. They tasted about as good as you'd imagine.

Next time this happens, you can strain the soup and cook the liquid down, then re-add the pasta.

This water cooking is out of control, comrades!

I now am beginning to understand how that "if I cook even the simplest of food I will somehow fuck it up and poison everybody" gag in anime works.
I once burned easy mac, the dumbed down version of mac and cheese where you just add water and microwave it. I forgot to add water and filled the dorm with smoke at close to midnight.
- You and about 100 other freshmen in my dorm alone.

Pasta soup eh
I like tomato soup and pasta so why not.

add some beans and you just made pasta e removedioli

ngl I don't see the problem here
- My pennes have been drowned

You just made a homestyle type of minestone
Happy little accidents can happen in cooking too.
- the children yearn for the

I need to see Italians with deep (and silly) beliefs about authenticity react to this. I once worked with an Italian that got very angry about American pizza. Pizza with tomatoes didn't even exist until nearly 1900 and wasn't popular in Italy until it was already popular in the US.
Perfect your pasta soup recipe, comrade.

I now am beginning to understand how that "if I cook even the simplest of food I will somehow fuck it up and poison everybody" gag in anime works.
My version of that phase was me learning about all the flavors I have at my disposal and then experimenting mixing them to see what happens... and also fucking up measurements by mixing up teaspoons with tablespoons.
My experimental curry making days were fucking wild
- Worst thing I did with curry was make it too strong so it was pretty spicy. If I was any more white I couldn't have eaten it
  
  I messed up the first time with tablespoons of coriander and turmeric instead of tablespoons of cumin, teaspoons of coriander, and a decent dusting of turmeric. And it was with an onion puree sauce base.
  My lord it was rough

Water based cooking lol

on the bright side at least you only did it by accident, when I make mac n cheese I make it this soupy on purpose

I see you've read the cookbook: https://hexbear.net/post/4970465

Is there a reason you had to keep the pasta in the soup instead of removing it and reserving it to fix the sauce?
- No, other than the fact that I ate it all.
  
  Thats good. I was more worried that you couldn't salvage it for some reason. The way this was prepared might make an italian sad,
  but its not the worst thing in the world. Your defintely not a failure here.
  
  Then you are golden my friend.
  As long as you're as cheap/flavour tolerant as me and will still eat it, there's no downside here. I made some truly weird and messed up shit when I first started cooking for myself, and it just helped me learn better.
  Cooking for others is when the stakes are a bit higher, and I will never not be at least a little anxious about that.