Spaghetti
Topic: Pasta
Spaghetti is an Italian word means "thin string", the dish is orginally Italian but very common in many countries nowadays. It is one of my favorite recipes to cook since I was in high school and my friends liked it so much. I tried many ingredients already, sometimes I cooked it with shrimps and chicken but the former is always the best for me. My husband was not fond of spaghetti before we were married but now it is one of his favorites. I always add sugar, soy sauce and oyster sauce whenever I cooked one, these sauces will make a big difference to the classic spaghetti sauce and neutralized the sour tomato taste!

Ingredients:
500 g spaghetti, cooked
1 1/2 cups ground beef
1 carrot, shredded
2/3 cup baguio beans, sliced very thinly
2 onions, minced
2 ripe tomatoes, minced
3 cloves garlic, minced
2/3 tsp. ginger powder
1 1/2 cups traditional spaghetti sauce
1 cup tomato ketchup
1/4 cup soy sauce
3 tbsp. oyster sauce
1 1/2 cup beef broth or more
1 tsp. white sugar
3 tbsp. olive oil
1 bay leaf
salt and pepper to taste
grated cheese

Directions:
1. Heat oil in a pan, saute garlic until brown, add onions and tomatoes and saute until the tomatoes are very tender.
2. Add the ground beef and bay leaf. Cook until the meat is done. Add carrots, beans and broth, season with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil.
3. Pour in the spaghetti sauce, ketchup, soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar and ginger powder. Simmer for 5 minutes.
4. Turn off the heat and adjust the seasonings.
5. Transfer to a bowl separately from the pasta.


Tips: Serve in 3 containers, the pasta, the sauce and the cheese. Let everyone mix their own to suit their personal taste of combining the mixtures.

Chicken Tetrazzini
Topic: Pasta
Tetrazzini is an American dish comprised of cream sauce, grated cheese, mushrooms, served on some spaghetti-like noodle, with one of various kinds of non-red meat, usually seafood or chicken. Here's a recipe for the one with chicken.

Ingredients:
2 cups chicken breast, broiled, chopped
1 tbsp. pimento
1/3 cup cream of mushroom soup
1/2 cup chicken broth
1 cup cheddar cheese, grated
4 oz. spaghetti, cooked

Directions:
1. Mix all ingredients except half of cheese. Cover with foil.
2. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
3. Remove foil and add remainder of cheese and heat until melted.
4. Serve hot with Garlic Bread. (next time I will post the garlic bread recipe)

Spaghetti ala Pancit
Topic: Pasta
I named this recipe as Spaghetti ala Pancit, because as you see in the picture below, it looks like a pancit canton, guisado or whatever you call it but actually that's a spaghetti. We have many spaghetti sticks in our kitchen cabinets that's why I tried to cook it in many different ways. Here's one:

Ingredients:
250 g spaghetti stick, cooked
1 medium chicken breast, sliced
1 large carrot, sliced into strips
1 large bell pepper, sliced
1 can 150 g sliced mushroom, drained
2 cups chicken broth
1/3 cup oyster sauce
1/3 cup soy sauce
1 large onions, chopped
1 tbsp. finely minced garlic
4 tbsp. cooking oil
1 tsp. sugar
1 tbsp. cornstarch
2 tbsp. cold water
1 tsp. sesame seed oil
salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
1. Heat the cooking oil in a pan. When smoking, add the chicken and stir fry over high heat until lightly brown.
2. Add the garlic and onions. Stir for about 2 minutes.
3. Add the carrots and mushrooms and cook for 3-4 minutes.
4. Pour in the broth, add the soy sauce and salt. Bring to a boil.
5. Blend the cornstarch and cold water.
6. Stir in the cooked spaghetti and bell pepper. Mix well.
7. Add the cornstarch mixture and oyster sauce. Stir until the sauce thickens and clears.
8. Turn off the heat. Add salt and pepper if desired, then stir in the sesame seed oil. Serve.