Kerstin and I decided to try the Thin Spaghetti with garlic, oil, and chili - a relatively quick pasta dish and fairly easy on the shopping list.  As you can see in the picture, only 5 ingredients - garlic, olive oil, sea salt, chili peppers, and spaghetti.

And for you pasta experts, yes, that is normal spaghetti, not 'thin spaghetti' as in the recipe.  However, we couldn't find thin spaghetti at the local store so we went with the thinnest spaghetti we could find - as the cookbook mention, improvisation is okay.

Here we are cooking the garlic and chili in the oil while the pasta cooks in the background...

The final product...  Unfortunately, for this particular recipe, the thin spaghetti requirement can't be ignored - our version was way too heavy on the pasta taste for the rather delicate garlic/oil/chili flavor.  Also, could have had more chili...  But there was potential....

So, we decided to try again - with a few adjustments.

For this new version, we found angel hair pasta, decided to use more chili pepper, and also use Tarturo (Black Truffel) Olive Oil.  We thought the truffel would be a nice addition as the flavor was very light in general - nothing to overpower the truffel.

Cooking was basically the same and this variation was much better.  Our biggest problem was that we used too much pasta for the amount of oil/garlic/chili that we had prepared.  While not 100% successful, good enough to try again sometime in the future.

 GIve it a try if you want, but be wary of making too many alterations...