So I looked in the fridge. We had carrots, cabbage, sandwich ham, and cream. Yea, with the kids out the house we have what they refer to as a “sauce fridge”.
And I felt like pasta.
Boil some† spaghetti. Water, salt, ‘cmon you don’t need instructions for that.
Fry onions and cabbage (recipe calls for a head of cabbage, I have no idea how big a Napa cabbage is, I used about a third of a Cape Town cabbage). This takes longer than you might think. Pasta was al dente and I was still frying cabbage.
Add ham and more seasoning than the recipe calls for. Add the cream. Add the spaghetti. Add some reserved spaghetti water to make a sauce.
I didn’t have parmesan but I did have mozarella in the freezer. I left the carrots for another day.
† Technical Term