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      Title: Dirty Spaghetti
 Categories: Pasta
      Yield: 1 Serving
 
      5    Dried mushrooms (ordinary
           -Agaricus)
    1/2 ts Onion powder
    1/2 ts Garlic powder
    1/4 ts Celery salt
    1/8 ts Salt substitute
      1 ds Cayenne
      2 ts Stock base
      2 oz Water
      1 oz Olive oil
           Cooked vermicelli; for 1
           -serving
 
  This is a version of something I occasionally make with mostly fresh
  ingredients. But when the cupboard is bare, it's bare. The only
  invariant is that for this dish the mushrooms must be dried, for the
  proper effect (drying makes ordinary mushrooms taste better anyhow).
  
  Crush the dried mushrooms almost to a powder. Any remaining fragments
  should be quite small. Combine all ingredients (except the pasta) and
  bring to the boil. When all liquid is boiled away, stir-fry 1 or 2
  minutes; toss with cooked pasta.
  
  This looks like a spaghetti version of dirty rice.
  
  I actually tried it with the ingredients as above, as I had no fresh
  things on hand, and it made a surprisingly good sauce. If I'd had any
  on hand, or it weren't raining so hard, I might have gone to the
  store and gotten an ounce of sausage meat or various and sundried
  tomatoes to put in; but even as it was, it was so tasty I went around
  the kitchen singing (to the tune of a Smokey song we used to play)
  "ooooh, mommy, mommy."
  
  Recipe by Michael Loo
 
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