On Monday, December 1, 2014 2:28:46 AM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
> "dsi1" <> wrote in message
> ...
> On Sunday, November 30, 2014 5:57:48 PM UTC-10, Christopher Helms wrote:
> > On Sunday, November 30, 2014 11:50:06 AM UTC-6, sf wrote:
> > > His name was (chef) Hector Boiardi and he has quite an interesting
> > > story. http://www.chefboyardee.com/history
> >
> >
> > He was a very good cook, and a very popular guy and he would probably be
> > shocked and angered if he saw some of the stuff being put into "his" cans
> > these days.
>
> I used to cook up a can of spaghetti for my parents and brother when I was a
> kid. I'd brown a pound of hamburger and then dump a can on that. Sometimes I
> layer on some American cheese if we had any. Somehow, back in the 60s, that
> was enough for a family of 4. Everybody ate small portions in those days.
>
> Oddly enough, my wife says that canned spaghetti was a dish that her Korean
> step-mom used to make frequently.
>
> ---
>
> I used the recipe for spaghetti from the Betty Crocker Boys and Girls
> Cookbook. It had ground beef in it. I also made skillet spaghetti which
> wasn't quite as good. It was all cooked in a skillet and the spaghetti was
> broken in thirds. However, in those days my mom didn't really have a nice
> pot that was suitable for cooking spaghetti so for that reason the skillet
> one was a heck of a lot easier.

We didn't have a pot suitable for boiling spaghetti either. After graduating into cooking something resembling real spaghetti, I used a rather small pan to boil the pasta in. These days, I wouldn't attempt such a thing.