At first glance, you probably assume I dined at Olive Garden tonight. You would be wrong! A few years ago, Mark picked me up a cookbook called Top Secret Recipes: Classics. It's a book of recipes that are recreations of popular dishes at chain restaurants. Tonight, I made the Olive Garden alfredo sauce at home!
The recipe was actually very easy to create. It consisted of simmering butter, heavy cream, garlic powder, and garlic in a sauce pan for ten to twelve minutes. I actually had to simmer closer to fifteen minutes to get a decent consistency. You then remove it from the heat and add paremesan cheese. That's it. As far as simplicity goes, it doesn't get much easier than this. I was sure to stay close by and stirring pretty constantly. I was afraid of it scorching.
I was really worried about it being a good dish, as I had to cook it longer than suggested. When I poured it over the noodles, it still looked pretty runny. Once I had the plates in front of the both of us, I hesitantly took a bite, and it was actually very good! It tasted a lot like the Olive Garden sauce, especially at first. It also tasted a great deal like the alfredo sauce at Angelo's.
Once it got cold, it really wasn't very good. Mark assured me that is a sign of good alfredo. The recipe I used made a lot of food, and because the sauce was so rich, we couldn't even eat half of what I made. I'll halve the recipe in the future. According to Mark, I will be making it again.
If you want a recipe for alfredo sauce, let me know. This one was excellent and very easy. In total, the entire meal was made in less than twenty minutes. Complete win.
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