September 7, 2012
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restaurant quality alfredo sauce
This is hands down the best alfredo sauce I've ever eaten. I originally tried to recreate the tortellini dish from Pasta House, which I've enjoyed for many years, and wound up with something even way better.
Cook 2-4 strips of bacon till crispy, drain and set aside. Wipe out pan, melt 2-3 T. butter on low heat while you thinly slice 1 small onion and chop enough of your favorite mushrooms to equal the amount of onion. Put those into the pan, grind on some pepper, turn up the heat a little, saute till tender. Turn the heat back down to sorta low, and into the pan add an 8 oz block of cream cheese, 1/2 c. can milk, 1/3-1/2 c. grated parmesan (powdered kind works best), and a tablespoon of garlic powder. As the cream cheese gets soft and you get stuff stirred in, splash in regular milk to thin it out a little, about 1/2 cup. The low heat keeps it all from curdling, so be patient. Crumble the bacon into this mixture, and if you'd like to add a little color, toss in a handful of frozen peas when the sauce is done.
At this point you can add anything else you want. I like tortellini, so I heat Buitoni's Cheese and Roasted Garlic Tortellini separately in boiling water, but be careful not to get let your pasta get too tender and soggy so it won't fall apart in the sauce. When it's done, drain well and stir gently into the alfredo sauce. This is also a good time to add precooked shrimp or whatever else takes your fancy.
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My first tracker was installed in 2004 and broke several times before moving to a new server, which lost a few months of stats, and then Xanga moved to new servers and I lost more stats for more months before the page came back up, so I've lost a total of about two years' worth of stats. The second was installed 2-22-14 and is considered very conservative by business owners who use analytics, which itself is very conservative, estimates being that roughly one third to one half of hits by real live people aren't even counted, most likely due to javascript discrepancies. Actual hits on several posts here are in the thousands now, and the Lexx Index in the ten thousands. I've got pingbacks turned off, so spam isn't counted at all within the Xanga internal tracker, and most direct post hits can be correlated to my real time linking activity on twitter and other social media. When I did Google Analytics beta testing I got to see how search engine performance compares to tracking. I believe live feed linking sources to various social medias are key to a future where search engines are more about performance than cataloging, which has been confirmed to me by coders who create bot algorithms as I was beta testing paper.li. I've fought hard through redundant age-old stacks to make my way to the google front lines again, so my Lexx work shows up faster on Chrome searches now. This has been a really interesting ride. At any rate, my point is, I can still go back 6 years on my original tracker and I can still see that in 2013 just before the last big blog server move, I was getting traffic like this (and since then, the tracker may have been abandoned, we can't tell). Click the thumbnail to see full size.
My original tracker also still lets me see the latest 500 visitors on a map. I once counted over 80 countries among the total visits. You guys are not alone. Click the map to see it better.
Besides Lexx, the most common search phrases that bring new visitors here are variations on 'huge spaceship'. The most seen post from a phrase search is How Big is the Lexx? My biggest Lexx referrer is Lexx Domain. Most of page views per person count comes from the Lexx tag on Tumblr. Visitors who stay the longest come through URLOpener and are pinged through the Google translator server in Mountain View, CA.
