Don’t you just miss that old sweet-spicy-meaty spaghetti goodness?

The sprouting of fastfoods in the Philippines, offering their own version of Spaghetti in red sauce, as well as the influx of the more high-end Italian Pasta Restaurants like Italianni’s, Fazoli’s and A.Venetto, has made me go into a pasta adventure over the past few years. My love affair with pasta had me pick my favorites sauces: the Alfredo, Carbonara and Pesto.  Wherever I go, I always pick one of those three sauces from the menu.

There are times however, when I just miss that good old-birthday party meaty sweet and spicy cheesy spaghetti that mom makes when I celebrate my birthday as a kid. It has this real meaty goodness of traditional filipino spaghetti. Today was one of those days when I wanted to make something in the kitchen and I just went for it – I decided to cook mom’s spaghetti recipe!

 

By the time Hunee and I got home from Paranaque, I went to get some ingredients from Shopwise (it’s a stone’s throw away from where I live…). Luckily, they had fresh ground sirloin beef available, otherwise, I would have had trouble cooking the sauce if it was just the ordinary fatty ground beef. Hunee doesn’t like the beef though, coz it has some small pieces of bone that you get to munch on when you eat (If anybody knows how to debone ground sirloin beef, leave me a message! I could surely use that tip!)

Anyway, so I went off on my cooking adventure, prepared all the ingredients and boiled water for my pasta. While cooking my pasta and sauteeing the meat…guess what happened! I ran out of gas!!! Sigh, the things that could happen to you in the middle of preparing a late night dinner – it’s times like these that make me wish I had an extra gas tank in the kitchen….Anyhow, I called up the shellane delivery service and I was lucky to be their last customer for the day! Yahooo…I patiently waited for the guy to arrive and hook up my new gas tank…and voila! 30 minutes thereafter, I was done cooking and we were happily eating the yummmyyy meaty semi-sweet and spicy filipino style spaghetti… I still can’t perfect that taste in mom’s recipe though, but here it is anyway.