Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Chili Spaghetti

Okay, that's not what the dish is actually called.  While watching yet another episode of "Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives" with Guy Fieri (really hope I spelled his name right), my husband and I saw a restaurant where they served chili on spaghetti with beans, cheese, and onions as options.  Well, we thought it sounded good at the time.  Then my husband decided he wanted to try it.  We had all the ingredients so he went ahead and made it the other night.  Needless to say, he didn't like it, though I kind of did and my son ate it up.
So today, we tried to make it again.  We did it by cheating...
I used two cans of hot dog chili sauce, a can of chili with beans, 4 hot dogs, a half an onion, and spaghetti (half of it was wheat).  I chopped the onion and hot dogs and threw them in a hot skillet.  I boiled the noodles and added a little salt.  Then, once the onion and hot dogs were cooked to our liking, I added the sauce.  My husband grated cheese, took the bread out of the oven, and plated it all for me since I was busy.
He even made the veggies (with a little salt, pepper, and butter).
We ate it up.  It's very filling, so we know to make less next time.
Go ahead, steal it.  Make it your own way.  It's actually pretty good so long as there's more sauce than beans and/or hot dogs.  You can nix anything you don't like.  You can add pureed veggies if you have them in hand (we didn't).  I think it would be excellent with cornbread since that naturally goes with chili anyway.  You can even nix the cheese if you want it even healthier or make your own chili from scratch for the healthiest version.

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