Rex Trulove
Among the meals that we have fairly often is homemade spaghetti. We have this at least once or twice a month. It isn’t something we often get tired of, primarily because I never make spaghetti the same, twice in a row.
I might use ground beef or ground venison or ground turkey or sausage. I might use a combination of these. I might include onions, celery, bell peppers, zucchini, mushrooms, black olives, or leeks. I might use tomato sauce, tomato paste, stewed tomatoes, tomato soup, chili sauce, or salsa. I nearly always add oregano and basil as seasonings, though in varying amounts, but I also might add rosemary, sage, thyme, garlic, chives, or parsley. I’ve added soy sauce, steak sauce, liquid smoke, brown sugar, lemon juice, or vinegar.
The point is that it is never quite the same, any two times I make spaghetti. There is enough variation that we don’t get tired of it. I also tend to make a big pot of it because it never lasts long. People heat up leftovers for lunch the following day.
However, one of my favorite ways to eat leftover spaghetti is as spaghetti soup. This is incredibly easy. It is basically just a bowl of spaghetti and sauce, with water added, then it is heated until it is hot, usually in the microwave for a couple of minutes. It tends to be thin, like soup, but it has the flavor of spaghetti. It makes an excellent lunch, to me anyway.
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Do you ever eat spaghetti soup?
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Yes
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No
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I’ve eaten it, but I’ve never made it
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I’d like to try this
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No never heard of spaghetti soup but it is a good idea. Quite often make spaghetti Bolognaise, which is either made from mince or lentils.
It is very easy to make
I often have chicken noodle soup.
I like making soups, but this one was an accident. I was heating up a bowl of spaghetti in the microwave and knew that I needed to add a small amount of water to keep it from burning or drying out. I got distracted and added quite a bit more water than I intended. I’ve purposely made the soup out of leftovers, ever since.
I have never tried this, but it sounds great.
It might be something to remember the next time you have leftover spaghetti. 🙂
ah spaghetti, with twins in the house that are mobile, agile and hostile, soothing the savage beasts within around dinner time requires spaghetti.
we make it a number of ways! Your variation looks amazing!
It is also a great time-saver. A person can make a very large batch of spaghetti, then freeze it in smaller containers specifically for use in spaghetti soup. It would be handy for those times when it was hard to figure out something that the kids might enjoy eating or when there isn’t a lot of food in the house.
🙂 that is why i taught the kids to cook at an early age. They want it for dinner, they can make it for everyone!!!!
There is a lot to be said about teaching kids to cook. Not the least of which is that there are far too many adults that don’t know how, and have no idea what they are missing.
My mother always taught me that it is all about equality! My dad was also a great cook!
I’d agree with your Mom. All the males in my family are excellent cooks. All of the females hunt, fish, and most can do at least routine maintenance on a car.
When i was a school teacher the vice principal once accused me of running a sexist program.
i said why?
She said because you make the girls play sports.
I said really.
She said yes.
I told her to come to the classroom and make sure she was right.
After a day, she said “equal.” We did arts and crafts, we did science. we did everything with everybody!
It’s called ‘teaching real-life skills’. Unfortunately, too many schools don’t teach kids that way anymore.
By the time I was in 10th grade, I even knew how to change a diaper and I doubt that there was anything my sisters could do that I couldn’t also do. The flip side is that I don’t think that there was anything I knew how to do that my sisters also didn’t know how to do.
They did 20 years ago. Home economics was a horribly sexist program designed to teach girls how to be housewives.
It should be, instead of mandatory for all students!!!!!
The measure of a person is not what they say, it is what they do!
“The measure of a person is not what they say, it is what they do!”
That is quite true. In fact, that is a biblical principle. A person can say anything, but that means nothing if their actions don’t back it up. Even people who’ve never thought about it in this way know the truth of it. That is why so many politicians are thought of poorly by so many people. They talk a lot and stay what they believe people want to hear, but they don’t even try to back up their words. They amount to the sort of people who can talk for hours without saying a thing.
It actually comes originally for Hindi spiritual text the Bogadaveda
One of the main teachings of the bible is that what is important is what is in your heart, which leads to your actions. What is in your heart also has a bearing on what is said. Luke 6:45 “A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.”
I agree about Home-Ec. I feel the same way about shop. It makes no difference if a person never ends up using the knowledge. They have it if they need it. The strange thing about knowledge, in my experience, is that often, if you have the knowledge about something, sooner or later that knowledge comes in handy.
when I was a kid we had to take both! Now, not so much. But I did and my wife did home home ec with the kids!
I have never tried this, but it sounds great. Great idea.
It is a great way to handle the leftovers if there are any. I’m sort of surprised that commercial companies haven’t widely marketed this soup. It would be easy to do.
You can give them an idea, and make money .. hah.
Years ago, I saw it in a can, sold in a store, but I don’t remember the brand. I’m not sure how well it would sell, though.
hmm, yummy so delicious hehe ??
It is rather good and super easy…just add water. 😀
I had spaghetti but not soup.
I’ve never heard so many variations! You could make a spaghetti cook book!
I suppose that I could, but it would be mostly guesswork for creating a cookbook. I never use one when I make spaghetti. LOL Even the length of time it takes to prepare is variable. There have been times when I’ve spent about a half-hour making spaghetti and other times when I cooked the sauce for most of the day. I’ve also made it with different kinds of spaghetti pasta and we even occasionally make it with macaroni noodle (which we call macaretti).
Well, kudos for your creativity!
Have never tried this but sounds good.
It is. It is also very simple to make and is enough different that it doesn’t feel like you’re eating leftovers.
With all these products, it becomes a great spaghetti sauce. Many are delicious prepared in this way. Tomorrow I have a plan to cook spaghetti. I can take pictures.
We had spaghetti last night for dinner. I thought about this post when I was preparing my lunch…spaghetti soup. 😀