Ever since I was a boy I loved pasta. Unfortunately, I was intimidated and scared of cooking, so I never really got good at making any sort of pasta short of out-of-the-box stuff like mac and cheese. Recently, however, I've been getting out of my comfort zone in the cooking department and have started looking at different kinds of sauces to make with noodles. This one out-of-the-package stuff I really liked used a butter sauce, so I tried to emulate that by making my own.

After looking at a few butter sauce recipes, I saw that the main ingredients listed in all or most of them were butter or margarine, Parmesan cheese, salt, and ground pepper. As for the proportions, it seems like every tablespoon of butter or margarine needs about one tablespoon of Parmesan cheese. Then the salt and pepper is just to taste. Other things mentioned to add were oregano (3 teaspoons to 4 tablespoon of butter), milk or cream (roughly 1 tablespoon per 1 tablespoon of butter), and a small amount of garlic.

The process for each is roughly the same. First you melt the butter in a saucepan, then pour in the rest of the ingredients while stirring. It seems pretty simple, but I was scared to death that I was going to mess it up. So I finally bit the bullet and jumped in and tried it. It didn't turn out amazing, but it didn't turn out terrible either. I figure that if I play with it enough that I'll figure out a taste I really like.

So now that I've added a sauce to my repertoire, I can cook lots of kinds of pasta and have something to throw on it instead of eating it plain. Adding something wet to it really helps the taste and makes eating it a lot easier than eating plain pasta since it gets stuck in my mouth.