Mushroom Pasta with Balsamico Surprise

An experiment I conducted today...

Boil some pasta, I used spaghetti this time, but that's because I ran out of penne... that would work better I reckon cause that way you'll only need to use a spoon to eat it. Makes life easier.

In a small bowl, mix a vinaigrette of extra virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and freshly chopped garlic. Go light on the olive oil, you merely need it for a lil' lubrication... any chef in the world will tell you that it is good have some lubrication. Put as much or as little balsamic vinegar as you like, and if you're me, shitloads of chopped garlic. Add a pinch of freshly ground black pepper and salt to taste.

Dice an entire onion and slice some button mushrooms. Stir fry them in a wok and add some "Madam Loo's Damn Fine Rice Wine" into the whole thingamajigga. If you don't have rice wine, some regular white wine will do... Or if you're feeling super rich, you can use some Dom Perignon, but I reckon that will taste like crap (but hey, if you can affrod to use champagne for your cooking, by all means help yourself to it). Add enough for it to reduce and still have like a lil' sauce at the end of it. Of course, add salt and black pepper to taste.

Drain cooked pasta and pour vinaigrette into the pasta... mix well and make sure the vinaigrette coats everything. Then add the stir-fried mushrooms on top of it.

Bon apetit!

I call it the Mushroom Pasta with Balsamico Surprise because prior to cooking it, I reckon that the outcome will be a complete surprise. Somehow it seems highly unorthodox to use a vinaigrette for pasta... fortunately the outcome came out the way it should come out. However I do suggest that you don't put too much balsamic vinegar... put just enough to get that subtle balsamic flavour as you bite into the pasta. This is a light pasta and it should stay that way... Enjoy.

ps: maybe the infamous food blogger, Honeystar can cook a batch for herself and write a review on it.