Gorgeous Slow Cooked Pasta

Duuurrr. I'm forcing myself to keep writing. I think I may have like 1 or 2 fans out there which means I need to keep........ feeding them amazing blog posts :) I think there's a really shitty pun in that last sentence there. Maybe not. Please don't shoot the pianist, he's trying his best :D

Anyways, I've posted enough about drinks/desserts so I gotta prove my worth and post about some real fucking food. This one is a pretty sweet pasta.

Gorgeous Slow Cooked Pasta
From Cook with Jamie (although if you know anything about Jamie Oliver, you would know this is his recipe just by the name lol)

Why did I leave that fork there.... FUCK!

So a little background about this dish. First off, it serves 4 to 6 people and I ate this all by myself...meaning I ate this over a course of a week lol!! Fuck, it sucks not having anyone to cook for #foreveralone. Also! this dish is supposed to be made with a whole fucking duck. I love duck so much.... but it costs a million dollars for a whole duck, and its so expensive for pieces so I had to cheap out. I replaced the meat with beef and before anyone says shit about shit, I know it would've been wiser to replace it with another bird, but I felt like eating beef so fuck ya'll :D Duck would've made this dish SO much better though with the sweet and sour style #justsayin

Ingredients
Agro Dolce Sauce [the star of the recipe since there is no duck :( .....]
- Pancetta, red onion, carrots, celery, rosemary, cinnamon stick, garlic, plum tomatoes, red wine
Also, meat, parmesan, butter, orange zest and juice, red wine vinegar
And Rigatoni

Notes to Ingredients
The sauce is pretty sweet for this one, its like a new sweet and sour taste I'm not used to when it comes to pasta. Additionally, Mr. Oliver put down pinenuts and sultanas to put into the pasta. FYI sultanas is like white grapes (English snob I know lololol) I had white grapes but I opted not to put it in. It would've added to the sweet and sour taste, but adding that AND pinenuts made it seem like the dish was super busy with all these little bits and bites to eat so I took it out. I mean I had ground beef, little diced up celery, carrots, pancetta, pasta and then I'd also have these two. Meh.
Also, this is the first time I used Rigatoni pasta. Never had it before :D

Cooking
- This one is a longer cooking pasta, the sauce took hella long to reduce and simmer
- One little tip about cooking pasta (I can't remember if I've mentioned this) but when you cook pasta you should always set aside some of the cooking water. It helps when you are putting together the pasta with the sauce at the last minute and you need to "loosen" the sauce with a little water. The starchy water is a little bit more effective than just regular water
- I've always been slightly confused about the terms boiling and simmering. Seems obvious and maybe it is but there is a tiny difference and instead of trying to explain, here's a British guy to do it for me :D

That's about it for this one! I'm making another cake with Ducky this week. Hope it's awesome!