Two recipes

My mother was so very good at stretching food items. If we had spaghetti for dinner, we knew we would have home-made pizza for lunch the next day. Don't get excited, my mom didn't make pizza crust like they do at pizzerias, but she made what she called pizza and we ate it and enjoyed it very much. And we thought this treat WAS pizza because (1) they didn't have pizza in any freezer section of the food store, and (2) we had never been to a pizzeria, although we did smell the treat when we went to the boardwalk in Ocean City.

So, here's mom's pizza treat:

Left over Italian bread, sliced into thin slices (two per person)
Left over spaghetti sauce
Grated cheese -- either Parmesan or mozzarella or both
Olive oil

On a cookie tray put the bread slices. Sprinkle, minimally, olive oil on the slices. Top with a spoon full of sauce -- if you like extra sauce, slather it on thicker. Then finish off with the grated cheese -- add a lot of cheese if you like it that way.

Bake in 350-degree oven (preheated) for 10 minutes. Yummy.

NOTE: The day-old Italian bread is hard enough so that the sauce doesn't seep into the bread and make it soggy. Fresh bread will be soggy, even though it's heated in the oven.


Second Recipe for the day:

This is something we all loved and we ate this often.

FRIED NOODLES:

Items needed:

1/2 pound wide curly noodles
1/3 stick butter
salt/pepper

Cook the noodles according to package directions. Drain the noodles after you've cooked them. Melt butter in skillet, add the drained noodles to the melted butter and fry until the bottom is starting to brown, but not burn, then with spatula, turn the noodles and cook the other side. Add salt and pepper to taste. We had this as a side dish instead of potatoes or rice.

My variation is to fry the noodles in the pan drippings when I make pork chops or steak or brazed meat of any kind.

I know this probably sounds weird, but it really is quite good.

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