Non-FIT Nurses and FIT Nurses

[trinitymaster]

Can I get a HOOYAH!

Share your vices and guilty pleasures.

For example: Every Sunday I order a Pizza and watch the Walking Dead.

(This post is in response to all of the "FIT" topics that I see)

[Red Kryptonite]

Oh my geezers. I love that stuff on Youtube. I could watch them popping cysts, lancing boils and extracting blackheads for hours on end. I have no idea why I find it so fascinating.

Why did I look? Why, why, why?

😲

[GoofyBlondeChic]

Yeah, but did you like it? It's sick to think about, it really is. But I love watching that crap...lol.

[canigraduate]

canigraduate: What the heck is that?

Haha! I didn't realize that pic would post so big. Here's a smaller version:

[canigraduate]

For those of you who want to try the Awesome pasta, I wrote down what I did last time. I hate dishes, so this is the one-pan one-pot method.

I use a deep twelve-inch stainless steel skillet for the sauce and a spaghetti pot for the pasta.

2 tbsp of butter for sautéing, 1 stick of butter for sauce

1 cup of heavy whipping cream

One smallish white onion (or anything that's not red) sliced thinly

A small pkg of chicken breast or tenders (around a pound) sliced into 1/2 inch cubes

You can substitute shrimp for the chicken, if you want.

Smoked sausage, Hilshire Farms style, half of a loop sliced into quarter-inch thick slices

A clove of garlic (two or three if you're a garlic-o-holic like my husband) either mashed or diced finely

Diced bacon (I use thick-cut because it's like bacon steak. Yummy.)

Halved or quartered grape/cherry tomatoes.

A tbsp of parsley

A cup of shredded parmesan

Salt to taste

Slice your veggies and meat and set to the side.

Heat a tablespoon or two of butter in your skillet over medium heat, just until it starts sizzling. I start with the bacon because it takes longest, then follow with the chicken to make sure all the juices are cooked before the veggies go in.

Then I add the onions and sauté until they are "wilted" but not yet clear. Then I add the sausage and cook until the pieces are starting to swell.

Next add your garlic and stir. (If you are going to use fresh shrimp, add here and cook until just starting to change colors.) Add in your sliced tomatoes and sauté just until the skins start to shrink.

Immediately add a stick of butter, the cup of cream, and 1/2 cup of parmesan. (If you are using pre-cooked shrimp, add here). I like to soften or melt the butter beforehand because I am impatient. Stir frequently until bubbling. (It is OK for the sauce to bubble, but don't let it boil hard or it will stick and burn.) If it isn't thick enough, add a little parmesan at a time until it thickens. If it starts to separate, add a little bit of cream at a time until it smooths out. Once the sauce is bubbling, incorporated, and thickened then I top with parsley. This is a good place to add salt, too, although I dash it over the sauce here and there all the way through.

Serve immediately over spaghetti. Sprinkle the rest of your parmesan and a little more parsley over the finished dish.

This does not reheat well at all, so make sure you have a bunch of people over or are prepared to throw down. If I want to make it for the two of us, I use canned alfredo and "doctor" it so we can eat it for a week.

To make it even more decadent, you can skip the bacon in the Awesome sauce and make your spaghetti carbonara style. When I do this, I brown the bacon in the Awesome pasta pan (for flavor), cook my spaghetti according to the package directions and drain, then immediately add in the bacon and one uncooked scrambled egg and toss. The heat from the spaghetti cooks the egg and it is amazingly delicious. (I don't use peas because I don't like them and they taste weird with the sauce.)

[poppycat, ADN, BSN]

For those of you who like the gross YouTube videos of extractions of pus-filled things, this is for you. Last week I developed an infection under my fingernail. The doctor told me it's actually called a felon. In order to drain it he had to drill into my fingernail to release the pus. Let me tell you, that was loads of fun (as well as loads of pus!). Sorry I didn't get a video of the procedure to show you all. Maybe there's already one on YouTube. I'm not gonna check to see, though.

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

canigraduate . . . . . if you take out that pasta, that recipe is perfect for my low-carb diet! I've been using zucchini in place of pasta. You just cut thin slices into ribbons and steam them or sauté them and pour the pasta sauce over that. I had it last night with sautéed mushrooms, onions, pesto, and a few oven-roasted cherry tomatoes from last year's garden. Then, I shredded parmesan over the top.

[canigraduate]

canigraduate . . . . . if you take out that pasta that recipe is perfect for my low-carb diet! I've been using zucchini in place of pasta. You just cut thin slices into ribbons and steam them or sauté them and pour the pasta sauce over that. I had it last night with sautéed mushrooms, onions, pesto, and a few oven-roasted cherry tomatoes from last year's garden. Then, I shredded parmesan over the top.[/quote']

MMMMMMMM.. Sounds delicious.

[Red Kryptonite]

I've been using zucchini in place of pasta. You just cut thin slices into ribbons and steam them or sauté them and pour the pasta sauce over that.

Zoodles! Do you have a spiralizer/mandolin or do you cut them by hand?

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

Zoodles! Do you have a spiralizer/mandolin or do you cut them by hand?

I do it by hand now but I want one of those!!

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

I ordered one~ :)

[edmia, BSN, RN]

I ordered one~ :)

I really want one. Pronto!

Sent from my iPhone -- blame all errors on spellcheck

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

I really want one. Pronto!

Sent from my iPhone -- blame all errors on spellcheck

I perused Amazon . . ..saw many different ones, read reviews, got one.