Pasta and clam sauce anyone?

Recipe Name: Leigh's Pasta with White Clam Sauce

Ingredients:
1 Tbls. salt plus a little bit more for seasoning
1 lb. pasta
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
2 garlic cloves, smashed and peeled
2 (6 ounce) cans chopped clams and their juice
1/4 c. dry white wine
1/4 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes
freshly ground pepper
1/4 c. fresh parsley
1 Tbls. cold unsalted butter

Directions:
Heat up the olive oil and add the crushed garlic, brown until golden, about 5 minutes. Add the
clams and their juice, wine, red pepper flakes, salt & pepper, stir and reduce the heat to a
simmer, cooking another 5 minutes until slightly thickened. Cook the pasta until al dente and
drain, reserving 1/2 cup of the water that the pasta has cooked in. Add the cooked pasta to the
pan of clams, if there's too much pasta to coat evenly with the clam sauce add the pasta water
a Tbls. at a time. Add the unsalted butter and the parsley, stir, cover and simmer another
minute or so. Serve immediately. Serves 6

Tips:
To make a red sauce, make the same as above however, add 1 c. crushed canned Italian
tomatoes.