 So today we're going to be cooking, Ember is going to be my assistant and we're going to be cooking my butter pepper mushroom pasta. The things you'll need for this is obviously some pasta. For this I like something like fettuccine, linguine or spaghetti, something long and thin although you know personal preference if you like some other shape for this go ahead and use that. We'll need some peppers. I like using these small sweet peppers, they're red, orange and yellow I especially like the orange and yellow ones but you can use full-size peppers if you want I just prefer these. Of course some mushrooms and some butter so let's go ahead and first things first let's get that's right let's get some water boiling to get our pasta going. Okay here I got two quarts of water getting ready to boil using two quarts of water because I'm cooking about a quarter of a pound of pasta. Most pasta comes in a box of a pound and my personal thoughts is about a quarter a pound per person so if you're cooking for two people half a box one person you know a quarter of a box that's double what the serving size says but who follows serving sizes anyway right so since I'm cooking enough for one person I'm just going to use two of these small peppers and two medium-sized mushrooms. Now I'm not here to give you exact proportions of what to put in I'm more here to show you what I put in and how I cook it the exact proportions will vary on your liking so do play around be creative see what you like so of course to cut the peppers you're gonna want to cut off the tops first we don't care about those nice thing about these small peppers is most the seeds are pretty much right up in the top there there's no really seeds inside the rest and that's one of the benefits of using these small ones over large ones but we're just gonna cut these up I like them relatively small but again cut to your preference if you like bigger pieces cut them larger working in the kitchen is about being creative just like most rest of life you know there's guidelines you follow but you want to be creative you want to do the same thing as everybody else my water just started boiling so I threw my pasta in once that gets going we'll lower that down from a high to a medium high help prevent it from bubbling over now I have my large pan here and I have that heating up on a medium-high heat now and I've got two tablespoons of butter I'm gonna throw that in and let that melt as soon as it does get melted down we're gonna do is we're gonna throw in our chopped mushrooms and peppers now when we're doing this this pan might seem a little big for what we're throwing it in initially but we're at the end we're gonna take our pasta and throw it into the pan as well and that's why I want a little larger of a pan to make room for the pasta so we've got our chopped peppers and mushrooms the butter is sizzling in the pan I'm gonna throw this in and cook it on the high medium heat until the mushrooms start getting saturated and sauteed looking and then we're gonna lower it down to a low heat now you might think this seems like a lot of butter and it is health wise but you got to remember that the butter is our sauce for the pasta so as I said we're gonna let this go until the mushrooms are nice and saturated and sauteed so our mushrooms are looking good nice and sauteed and brown so we're gonna do at this point is we're going to lower the heat down to a low and in just a couple more minutes our pasta should be ready if we've timed everything right just keep checking it and when it seems ready we'll move on if you don't know how to tell when pasta is done you take a little bit out of the pot throw it against the cabinet and if it sticks well then it's done okay our pasta is done boiling so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna turn that off we still have this pan on low heat and I'm going to just slowly with my spoon here let a little bit of water drain off and start moving the pasta over I'm doing this mainly so I don't have to clean a strainer you can put it right in the pot here we're going to cook it still for a little bit in the pan and that will cook off any excess water that we move over that we don't want so it's not a big deal there's still one piece in there there we go we're gonna move it all around get the butter all over it okay this is where we're gonna add a lot of the flavor I'm gonna use some Italian seasoning I got a big jug of it because I use a lot of that some parmesan cheese and table salt so we're gonna put that in there and again this is to your liking I like a lot of the Italian seasoning so I'm gonna put a decent amount of that in there but we sure to mix us all up good so the butter gets over everything and then sprinkle this stuff on again moving all around butter it all up gonna sprinkle on some Italian seasoning some parmesan cheese and some salt gonna move all this around and we are pretty much done this isn't a meal that really looks great served up I guess you could probably make it look better I'm just gonna throw this in a bowl and eat it but this is my butter pepper mushroom pasta sauce there you go a simple meal that takes about 15 minutes to cook anybody can do it and everybody loves it thank you for helping ember and thank you for watching oh you dropped your noodle now that's sad say bye bye ember now if you don't know how to tell when pasta is done you take it out of the pot throw it against the cabinet and if it sticks if you don't know how to tell them pasta is done what you do is take a little bit out of the pot throw it against the cabinet too much too heavy one piece you take a little bit out of the pot yes and you throw it against your cabinet really thought that was gonna stick that time I know you want some here take it take it you can have that piece so we're gonna let this go as I said until the mushrooms are nice until the mushrooms are nice and so that's it a simple meal that takes about 15 minutes to cook I want to thank ember for helping me