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Tap water

A while back I made pasta in my apartment. The most exciting moment was rinsing the noodles once they'd finished cooking. I just took the colander, and ran water over it--straight from the tap.

How exciting is that!!!!

If you haven't ever had to rinse pasta by dribbling filtered water over it, you'll probably never understand my glee.

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