Alfredo sauce

So, Alfredo sauce.  This is a sauce I have not thought about in a long time.  I remember liking it when I was a teenager.  I would sometimes order it when my family went out for Italian.  Whenever we had pasta at home, it was prepared with tomato sauce or clam sauce.

Sally recently posted a recipe for Easy Dairy-Free Soy-Free Alfredo Sauce over at 60in60.  I was intrigued because I hadn't had Alfredo sauce in so long and because it was a "quick" meal.

The verdict?  It was good.

• GFCF Kid and I both felt that the sauce could have benefited from a touch a sweet.  Obviously, this is a matter of personal taste and I do not fault the sauce for this.  I will also note here that we are not accustomed to savory cheesy flavor GFCF style.  (He eschews casein-free cheese and I've enjoyed casein-full cheese my whole life.)  It may be the case that once our taste buds adjust to the flavor of, say, nutritional yeast, that we may not need added sweet to balance our palates out.

• I could not quite manage to whip up the sauce while the pasta was cooking.  I had some other things going (preparing turkey bacon and peas as sides), but also, I just move more slowly than the average person.  And as much as I desire '20-minute meals', I no longer value multitasking as I once did.  So slow and steady is how I move, concentrating on one thing at a time.

• I was very bummed that I forgot to save some of the pasta water.  I simply couldn't keep the detail in my head.  I even had the Pyrex cup out as a visual cue, but I missed it :-)

• I have a feeling that this sauce is going to be even better tomorrow.

• I love having an alternative pasta sauce to our staple turkey marinara sauce.

• I think this sauce might work well with rice, especially brown rice.

• It was very fun having the kids guess the ingredients of the sauce while we ate.  They both thought it tasted like hummus.  Bingo, one of the ingredients was chickpea miso (which, by the way, is really tasty!)