You know they love your food when they swarm around it like overweight malnourished kittens begging for the last drop in the gallon of milk.
Baked Spaghetti Pasghetti Pie
[Makes 1 11x17 baking dish]
Food:
2 lbs hamburger, cooked and drained
2 jars spaghetti sauce (cooks choice)
1 can rotel (stewed tomatoes with peppers)
3 cups shredded cheese
(I broken it down as 1.5 cups shredded parmesan
and 1.5 cups shredded cheddar) (Once again cooks choice)
2 lbs of long spaghetti noodles
Cookware:
1 large skillet
1 large pasta pot
1 glass 11x17 baking dish
1 broiler pan and tray or 1 cookie sheet
Other stuff:
Nonstick cooking spray or olive oil
Garlic powder
Italian Seasoning
Salt
Pepper
Butter or Margarine
1 loaf Thin Italian sliced bread
Cook It Up!
Brown hamburger and drain. Put hamburger back in skillet along with the spaghetti sauce and rotel. Toss in spices of choice (garlic, italian seasoning, salt and pepper perhaps?). Simmer on medium low heat while noodles cook.
Heat giant stock pot of water for 1.5 lbs of long noodles. Sprinkle salt and a dab of oil in water to keep noodles from sticking together. Bring water to boiling. Drop noodles in pot. Reduce heat to boil and cook for 8 to 10 minutes until al dente. Drain.
Pull sauce off heat. Set drained noodles and sauce on prep counter.
Heat oven to 350° Spray glass pan with nonstick cooking spray.
In pan layer noodles, sauce, 1/2 to 1 cup of cheese (I LOVE cheese. No really, I have "I love cheese" tattoo'd over my heart. Right next to "D-I-E-T is an evil word".) noodles, sauce, cheese and once again, spices of choice.
Cover the pan in foil and toss gently set in oven. Cook 20 minutes. (This will meld the flavors.)
While the pasghetti is cooking prep the garlic bread.
Spray cookie sheet or broiler pan with nonstick cooking spray. Place a flat layer of bread across the entire surface of the pan. Spread thin layer of butter on top of each piece of bread. Sprinkle whole pan with garlic salt, salt, butter and if you like parmesan cheese.
When pashetti is done remove from oven and switch oven setting to broil. Let heat for a few minutes than put bread in oven. The bread will only take a few minutes to toast. If you ignore it, it WILL burn. (I'm just saying, I might have killed a loaf or two.)
Voila!
Recipe feeds 4 starving adults and allows some leftovers for lunch or dinner the next day. All the peoples at the office will be so jealous.
