You’ll Love It As Much As He Does

“Red Spaghetti” is a very simple, quick, inexpensive, and delicious meal that has been passed down from my grandmother to my family.   We enjoy it two or three times a month and it never gets old.  Here’s the recipe.

Brown two or or three pieces of bacon in a deep frying pain.

Take the bacon aside and pour off most, but not all of the grease.

Brown a diced onion in the grease.

Once the onion is browned and soft, crumple the bacon into small pieces and put back into the pan.

Add a can of diced tomatoes which you have broken up by hand or lightly mixed in a blender.

Sprinkle in garlic salt to taste, add two or three dashes of Tobasco sauce, and then simmer for a bit.

Pour over spaghetti pasta and serve with warm, buttered French bread and a nice fresh green salad.

It’s a small slice of rural, Southern cooking.

Easter Cake

We had homemade coconut cake made by loving wife for Easter dinner today.  It was made using this recipe, which seems simple enough if you don’t mind doing everything from scratch, but requires these three ingredients that must be prepared about a week in advance.

The result?  It was very good.  The cake itself was just the tiniest-bit dry, but only in comparison to modern store-bought cake mixes that are impossible to screw-up.  By pre-modern cake mix standards it was very moist indeed.  But other than that small thing, it was delicious.

The show it was featured on said it was a once a year recipe back in the olden days and I can see why, but it was certainly a treat for a special day.