Chef Boyardee

Ok, I have to admit almost half the fun of trying these different recipes is the weekly scavenger hunt I go on trying to find the ingredients that the recipe calls for. Bucatini WHAT ??? so its off to Central Market I go locating a package of Bucatini No. 06 (its spaghetti on steroids) on aisle 7. The rest of the ingredients were easy to find. I made twice the amount of meatballs the recipe calls for because it needs 8 oz of ground beef and veal, well the veal came in a 16 oz package, I grabbed a pound of ground beef and doubled the meatballs, thinking I can use them in something else later. I also doubled the the sauce recipe because we Whites like our pasta saucy! The short story is, loved the bucatini - it's fatter and beefier and just different. The pasta sauce - loved that too real tomatoey, the use of the crushed tomatoes made for a real chunky great sauce. The meatballs were good - I don't like meatballs, meatloaf or anything similar but they were good. The boys L-O-V-E-D them. The hubs wants to try some of the leftover meatballs in a meatball sub. I would make this all again, and continue to double the meatballs for leftover or alternative use and double the sauce - 'cause that's the way we roll.


Thanks CB for a great choice and a delicious change of pace.
Up next Mama Kathy has selected Lenox Almond Biscotti on Page 141.
Bon Appetite! Ciao