Friday, October 31, 2008

Low low prices and felt like cooking

We finally fell below the 3 dollar per gallon threshold. No idea how long this will last. It is a wonderment.






I felt like cooking this morning. So I made spaghetti and meatballs bake.

Recipe as follows; Scrounge cupboards for pasta. I had half a box of Fettuccine pasta that needed to be used up. The purists among you may break out the pasta machine, whip up some dough and massage it for the appropriate number of time. Cook in 4 quarts salted boiling water for 12 minutes,turn down from full boil to avoid over spill.

Scrounge onion, left over spaghetti sauce, olive, tomatoes, chopped garlic, what ever wine is in the fridge.

Drain pasta, rinse pot, pour in olive oil, chopped onions, saute, add olives, tomatoes, wine, garlic, season to taste.

Scrounge from freezer the last batch of beef veggie meatball, dump all together, simmer 15 minutes, dump in drained pasta. Mix well, pour in casserole dish and top with three partial bags of cheeses from the freezer; cheddar, Parm and white stringy.

Bake in 350 degree oven for 30 minutes. Also scrounged from freezer, one loaf of garlic bread, cook in package, it will be perfect at 30 minutes.

Enjoy!

2 comments:

Gale said...

I see a new cook show on the food channel. "Meal Scrounge".

Anonymous said...

oh I will have to see what that is all about, I'm guessing that some one perhaps two chefs will be challenged to scounge food from various sources to make a feast of some sort. Hmmm,that could be interesting.