…on cooking: baked spaghetti and bruschetta

pronounced: “BRU-SCET-TA” – i believe…

actually, don’t quote me on that.

anyway, finally got some grocery shopping in this weekend when i realized on friday night, i didn’t have SHIT to eat. ended up throwing whatever i had into a sauceless pasta. basically ate linguini with butter, garlic, rosemary, chili peppers, salt and pepper. yea. i KNOW. however, i HAVE to admit, it really wasn’t that bad… maybe because i was starving…

i wanted to redeem my pasta faux pas with good ole baked spizghetti… i ended up having a few tomato slices left over and thought, well, i have enough to make bruschetta!

ingredients:

• rosemary (optional)
• garlic – lots of it… ok maybe like 3-4 cloves will do you good
• olive oil
• tomatoes, i prefer the smaller plump ones – i’m no chef so idk wtf they’re called, they’re just more red and smaller (no not the cherry tomatoes) about 4 of those
• pre-made spaghetti sauce, again, i’m no chef and i’m too impatient and hungry to make my own damn sauce – i went for prego’s traditional sauce
• french baguette – in my case, spanish made french bread lmao – what? i live in bushwick.
• spaghetti
• ricotta cheese
• mozzarella cheese
• if you have a cast iron skillet even better, if not, just bake it in one of those baking pie thingies

step 1: chop the rosemary and tomatoes up. I LOOOOOVE THE SMELL OF ROSEMARYYYYYYY

step 2: sautee the garlic, about 3 of those tomatoes you chopped up, rosemary, salt and pepper (i like using kosher salt)

step 3: oops i forgot to mention, make sure you’re already boiling your noodles hehe

step 4: dump the sauce in

step 5: at this point, you can start preparing your bread for the bruschetta. i prepared by taking nibbles from my bread hehehehe

step 6: i put a lil olive oil on the bread and topped it off with garlic, the rest of the tomatoes and rosemary, a lil bit of oregano too, salt and pepper

step 7: pour the spaghetti in your sauce and top it with ricotta cheese

step 8: then you can top both bruschetta and spaghetti with mozzarella cheeeeeese

step 9: give your spaghetti a headstart to bake and throw it in the oven for about 10-12 min

step 10: then you can throw in your bruschetta with the spaghetti for about 5 min (or until you see the cheese melting)

*while you wait, you can be entertained by sushi the cat:

step 11: once you see the spaghetti all baked, toss it in the broiler to give the cheese that burnt final touch =P about 3 min

ET VOILA!

altogether, only took about 30 minutes to prep and bake (and 5 minutes to scarf down)