Spaghetti with Egg and Pepper
What you need
- spaghetti
- 2 eggs
- grated parmesan
- black pepper
Salt, pepper, water and oil don’t count. Mom always had those.
What you do
Beat eggs with the cheese and a lot of pepper. Drain the spaghetti, take the pan off the heat, and toss the egg mix through quickly with a splash of pasta water.
How it feels to make
Off the heat, always — the residual warmth is doing the cooking and you have to trust it.
Mom wrote on the back
Off the heat before the eggs go anywhere near it. Otherwise it's scrambled egg pasta.