"The Galarza’s Spaghetti Recipe" by Samantha G

 

     Hey y'all! Welcome to my blog entry on my family’s spaghetti recipe!Today I am going to explain how to make our generationally perfected spaghetti so that y’all can make this spaghetti at home with your own families! However, before I explain how to make my family's delicious spaghetti I am going to share my reason for choosing this particular recipe.I come from a family that loves to cook and make delicious items! My grandmother on my dad’s side is the one who introduced, and gave my mom the “recipe” for the family's spaghetti. While my mom greatly appreciated the gesture, she decided that she wanted to change up the recipe like those who had the recipe before her had done as well. My mom experimented with new spices, meats, and types of noodles before she finally settled on the way her and my dad liked the spaghetti best. My mom had decided to add new spices like chili and onion, she added sweet italian sausage into the ground beef, and finally decided to add the smooth, cheesy topping on the finished spaghetti.But anyways, the reason I decided to share this specific recipe with YOU, isso that you and your families can come together and experiment a new wayto make your own spaghetti and be able to pass that recipe down to your own families to continue to have delicious family recipes that you and your family can enjoy! I encourage you to use our family's recipe as a “baseline” on how to make your own recipe! I hope you and your families will be able to use this recipe as a tool to produce your own family recipes and have amazing smells coming from your kitchen, just like mine! Make sure you have your family in mind as you experiment, and please be careful! 

 

Ingredients: 

●1 Tbsp. of Canola Oil 

●Chicken Bouillon 

●Chili Powder●Garlic Salt 

●Italian Seasoning Blend 

●Meat Tenderizer 

●Minced Onion 

●Three Fifteen Ounce Cans of Tomato Sauce 

●Three Cups of Grated Cheddar Cheese 

●One Pound of Ground Beef 

●One Pound of Spaghetti Noodles 

●One Pound of Sweet Italian Sausage 

Directions: 

1.Empty your package of ground beef and ground or sliced italian sausage into the skillet. (My family uses a large electric skillet, but you may use whatever you have available!) 

2.Once the meats have been added, sprinkle the chili powder, garlic salt,Italian seasoning blend, meat tenderizer, and minced onion onto the mixture of meat in the skillet. 

3.Once the spices have been added, cook the meat until browned. 

4.While the meat is cooking, boil a pot of water and add one tablespoon.of canola oil and two tablespoons of chicken bouillon to the water.(When adding the bouillon to the boiling water show CAUTION the bouillon may cause the water to boil over onto the stove! To avoid this,try turning the heat down after the water has boiled while you are adding the bouillon!) 

5.Once the bouillon and oil have been added to the boiling water, grab your pound of spaghetti noodles, break them in half and drop them into the boiling water. (Once again, show CAUTION when adding the noodles into the boiling water to avoid the water boiling over onto the stove! Turning the heat down during the dropping of the noodles into the pot will assist in avoiding a boil over as well!) 

6.Cook the spaghetti noodles for ten minutes or until the pasta is “Al Dente”. 

7.While the pasta is cooking, open the three cans of tomato sauce and add the sauce to the meat in the skillet. Do not throw away the tomato sauce cans!! 

8.Once the contents of the tomato sauce cans have been poured into the meat, add one and a half tomato sauce cans worth of water into the meat mixture. 

9.Once the tomato sauce and water are added, allow the meat and tomato sauce to simmer with the lid on until the pasta is ready. 

10.Once the pasta is ready, strain the noodles from the pasta water and add the pasta into the meat and sauce mixture.

11.Once the spaghetti noodles and sauce have been thoroughly mixed, cover the entire top of the spaghetti with the grated cheddar cheese. 

12.Once the cheddar cheese has been added, put the lid back on the skillet and allow the cheese to completely melt onto the spaghetti. 

13.Once the cheese has been completely melted, uncover the pan and serve! 

On behalf of me and my family, we sincerely hope you enjoy our family's spaghetti and will use it to create your own families special spaghetti recipe! 

Bon Appetit!