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[janice shell]

Cacio e pepe is made with dry pasta. It's tasty. And easy.

[BullNBear52]

Needs butter.

[BullNBear52]

I made this last night since it was Good Friday and couldn't eat a meat dish.

https://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/alton-brown/cacio-e-pepe-reloaded-5458695

I make fresh pasta and always use lot's of water, but I just watched him make this.

I followed the recipe and amazingly the pasta came out perfect. You'd think it wouldn't considering not a lot of water was required.

The only thing I questioned was the 2 tablespoons plus 3/4 teaspoon black pepper and the 2 tablespoons kosher salt

That is a lot of pepper and salt so I went with just one tablespoon of each and it was a good thing I did. That is all you need and I probably could have cut the salt down to a 1/2 tablespoon. I can't imagine what 2 and 3/4 tablespoons of pepper would have tasted like.