Hon Cooks Spaghetti

Last night Mommy said she was in the mood for spaghetti. She gets like that when the weather starts to turn cool. So Daddy agreed, and told me that I could cook!

Jaden and Amanda L-O-V-E spaghetti!
When they found out we were making it, they ran around the kitchen singing and dancing about spaghetti!

Okay, so here’s how I make spaghetti.
If you have some idea that this is some really unique recipe from Mario Batali or somebody like that, forget it!
If it didn’t take the water so long to boil, this couldn’t even be on Thirty Minute Meals with Rachel Ray!

Daddy said he used to make the sauce and all from scratch and use Italian sausage and all that stuff, but it was never much better than the stuff in the can, so now he figures, why bother?
But everyone likes it, as a matter of fact, I think they like it better….

First get about a gallon or so of water in your big pot. Add some salt and put it on the biggest burner on high heat. Daddy says this is the ‘Glory to God’ setting. He says it refers to when you’re at the end of church and the organist turns the organ up as loud as it will go and plays ‘Glory to God’!

Now dice a large Spanish or Vidalia onion, and put it in the pot with some olive oil over medium heat.

Let it ‘sweat’ until it gets soft, then turn up the heat to high and add about a pound of ground beef and cook it until it’s all brown. When it’s done, you can pour off any fat that may have rendered from the meat.

Now pour in as many cans of store bought spaghetti sauce as it takes to make the consistency you like, and turn the heat to low and cover the pot. This part is done!

Now cook the noodles. By now the water should be boiling really well. Put in the noodles. When they get soft like you like them, they’re done.

Now taste-test the noodles and sauce together to ensure it’s seasoned properly and buon mangia (that means good eats).

That’s it! Now go try it yourself.

~Hon!