Angel Hair Everyone?

Angel hair? What’s angel hair gotta do with food? Well, it’s spaghetti dude! And by now this type of food is one that can be found wherever in the world you happened to be and it can be created very simply whenever you’re feeling famish.

But do you know that “Spaghetti is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine? And that spaghetti is the plural form of the Italian word spaghetto, which is a diminutive of spago, meaning "thin string" or "twine. And that “The first written record of pasta comes from the Talmud in the 5th century AD and refers to dried pasta that could be cooked through boiling, which was conveniently portable. Some historians think that Berbers introduced pasta to Europe during a conquest of Sicily. In the West, it may have first been worked into long, thin forms in Sicily around the 12th century, as the Tabula Rogeriana of Muhammad al-Idrisi attested, reporting some traditions about the Sicilian kingdom” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti).

Want to know more about its history? Just go to the link.

And wouldn’t you want to know why Italians live longer? Then go here.

See why Italians live longer? https://www.thelocal.it/20160816/why-do-italians-live-longer-diet-pasta-pizza-food-italy

For me, the first time I tasted spaghetti was in junior high in the island of Guam many years ago. And over the years I learned to create it with my own twists. I love spaghetti now and then. There are different types of spaghetti noodles as well as different variations cooking it. However, I prefer the angel hair kind. And here’s how I create my spaghetti, I just add cream cheese to it, making the sauce creamier rather than a plain texture. This dish is wonderful and flavorful to the taste. And at other times, I even used sour cream instead of cream cheese. I hope this dish will delight your taste buds. Try it with cream cheese or sour cream and enjoy the dish.

Ingredients:

1 lb. lean ground beef
12 oz. beef smoked sausage, diagonally sliced
1 tbl olive oil
2 cloves, garlic, minced
½ c. onions, chopped
1 jar (24 oz.) Bertolli Organic Olive oil, basil, and garlic sauce
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. black pepper
½ tsp. oregano
1 tbl basil, chopped
1 tbl sugar
4 0z. cream cheese
1 box of spaghetti
1 box (11.25 oz.) Texas Toast Garlic Bread
Parmesan cheese

Steps and Procedures:

In large skillet, over high heat, saute garlic and onions for 2 minutes or until soften. Then reduce heat to medium-high.

Add ground beef and cooked for 10-15 minutes. Add sausage and cook for 3-5 minutes.

Add salt, pepper, oregano, basil, and sugar. Stir to mix well.

Pour and stir in Bertolli sauce then add and stir in the cream cheese until melted. Cook and stir for 7-10 minutes.

Meanwhile, in another medium saucepan cook the spaghetti according to package directions.

Place the garlic toast on a baking sheet and bake according to package directions.

Remove the ground beef mixture from heat. Serve over the cooked spaghetti along with the toast garlic bread. Sprinkle on top with parmesan cheese.

Images: Taken from my iPhone6+