Not Your Grandmas Spaghetti Recipes

GRANDMA'S CAJUN CHICKEN & SPAGHETTI

Steps:

• Sprinkle chicken with cayenne and salt. In a Dutch oven, heat oil over medium-high heat. Brown chicken in batches. Remove from pan., Add sausage, onion, green pepper and celery to same pan; cook and stir over medium heat 3 minutes. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in tomatoes. Return chicken to pan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, covered, until chicken juices run clear, about 1 hour., Cook spaghetti according to package directions. Remove chicken from pan. When cool enough to handle, remove meat from bones; discard skin and bones. Shred meat with 2 forks; return to pan. Bring to boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, until slightly thickened, 8-10 minutes. Skim fat. Drain spaghetti; serve with chicken mixture.

GRANDMA MAGGIO'S SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium-low heat, and cook and stir the onion and garlic until translucent but not browned, 6 to 7 minutes. Stir in the mushrooms and basil, and cook and stir until the basil is wilted and the mushrooms are cooked through and have given up their juices, about 10 minutes.
• Pour in the whole peeled tomatoes, and bring the mixture to a boil, stirring and chopping the tomatoes into pieces with a spoon. Pour in the tomato sauce and stir, crushing any large pieces of tomato left, and bring to a simmer. Let the sauce simmer until slightly thickened and bubbling, stirring occasionally, about 15 minutes.
• Stir the tomato paste into the sauce, and fill the empty tomato paste can with Merlot wine, stirring to dissolve any remaining tomato paste in the can. Pour the Merlot wine into the sauce, and stir well to combine. Bring the sauce back to a simmer, and stir in the salt, pepper, dried oregano, and sugar. Let the sauce simmer until the seasonings are blended and the sauce is heated through, about 3 more minutes.

GRANDMA'S BAKED SPAGHETTI

Steps:

• 1. Brown meat and onion in a large pot. Add garlic, basil, parsley flakes, worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper, mushrooms, and tomatoes. Cook covered on low for 30 minutes.
• 2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. While sauce is simmering, cook spaghetti according to package directions.
• 3. When your sauce has simmered for 30 minutes, remove from heat and add spaghetti. Mix until evenly distributed. Pour mixture in 9x13 baking dish and top with cheese
• 4. Bake at 350 until cheese is bubbly and starting to brown. Serve with green salad. Enjoy!

GRANDMA'S SPAGHETTI SAUCE

Steps:

• Cook and stir ground beef and onion in a large pot until beef is no longer pink, about 10 minutes. Drain excess grease.
• Pour tomato sauce and tomato paste into the pot; season with pepper. Stir in tomato puree and ketchup. Add brown sugar, mustard, celery salt, onion salt, and garlic salt, stirring after each addition.
• Simmer sauce over medium-low heat, stirring frequently, until flavors combine, 30 to 45 minutes. Sprinkle in Parmesan cheese during the last 5 minutes of cooking.

NOT YOUR GRANDMA'S SPAGHETTI :)

Steps:

• Brown, and transfer meat into a large pot, set aside. Next, dice your onion, green pepper and slice the mushroom to saute in the excess fat you got from the hamburger meat if any, if you used very lean meat then use extra virgin olive oil, sauté the onion and green pepper until onion is clear and peppers are semi-soft, mushrooms will go along with the onions and peppers. (Saute all those together.) When those are done put into a large pot with the meat.
• Next, in the big pot, add all the cans of spaghetti sauce, keep the paste for later, fire roasted tomatoes (DON'T FORGET TO DRAIN THEM FIRST!!), turn heat to med/high and bring to just as it started to bubble around the edges but not boiling, making sure you stir the pot at the bottom so nothing burns or sticks to the bottom.
• After it started to bubble around edges, reduce the heat to med./low. As it cools keep stirring paying attention to the bottom of the pot then add the grape jelly, mustard and red cooking wine and stir until all ingredients are mixed well. Cover, then lower heat to between simmer and low and let sit the flavors meld together. Making sure to stir occasionally and reduce the heat to simmer to you notice any sticking at the bottom of the pot. Let simmer for one hour!
• During the final 15-20 minutes go ahead and cook one box of spaghetti according to box directions or however, many boxed you need depending on how many people are feeding. Also, make your garlic bread/toast/knots or whet ever you decide to eat with it.
• For the big pot of spaghetti turn off heat (it will stay hot for a long time) If you notice after if has simmered that the sauce it a little to liquidy for you and you want to thicken it, add some of the tomato paste and let the melt into the sauce. (I've also used a turkey baster to drain out some of the liquid on the surface when my sauce didn't come out just the way I wanted!! We like ours THICK!)
• Don't forget to add oil to your spaghetti so they don't stick together when you cook them.

MY GRANDMOTHER'S SPAGHETTI

Steps:

• Heat oil in heavy large Dutch oven over medium heat. Add onion and garlic and sauté until onion is translucent, about 4 minutes. Add ground beef and cook until brown, breaking up with fork, about 8 minutes. Drain drippings from Dutch oven. Mix parsley, bay leaves and basil into beef and cook 2 minutes. Stir in tomatoes, water, tomato sauce and tomato paste. Simmer until reduced to sauce consistency, breaking up tomatoes with spoon, about 2 hours. Season with salt and pepper. (Can be prepared 2 days ahead. Cover and chill. Rewarm sauce over medium-low heat before using.)
• Cook spaghetti in large pot of boiling salted water until just tender but firm to bite, stirring occasionally. Drain well. Place spaghetti in serving bowl. Pour half of sauce over. Serve immediately, passing Parmesan cheese separately. (Refrigerate or freeze remaining sauce for another use.)

GRANDMA'S GROUND BEEF CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir beef in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes; drain and discard grease. Mix sugar, salt, garlic salt and tomato sauce into ground beef; simmer until flavors blend, about 20 minutes. Remove from heat, cover skillet, and cool to room temperature.
• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook egg noodles in the boiling water, stirring occasionally until cooked through but firm to the bite, about 5 minutes. Drain and cool slightly.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch casserole dish.
• Mix sour cream, cream cheese, and onion in a bowl.
• Scoop half the noodles into the prepared casserole dish; top with half the sour cream mixture. Spoon half the ground beef mixture atop sour cream layer. Repeat layering with remaining ingredients. Top casserole with Cheddar cheese.
• Bake in the preheated oven until Cheddar cheese has browned, 25 to 30 minutes.