Week 5 (already)

Cheesy Garlic Bread

Equipment
Measuring spoons
Small saucepan
Pastry brush
Table knife
Heavy foil
Ruler
Ingredients:
¼ cup margarine or butter
1 10-inch loaf sliced French bread
5 1-ounce slices American or process Swiss cheese


Turn the oven to 400. Put butter in the saucepan. Put pan on burner. Turn burner to low. Heat till the butter is melted. Remove from burner. With the pastry brush, brush each side of the bread slices with butter. Sprinkle lightly with garlic powder. Cut cheese slices in half diagonally. Tear off a 20-inch-long piece of foil. Put the loaf back together on the foil. Place cheese slices between the bread slices. Wrap the foil around the loaf.
Put the loaf in oven. Bake for 20 minutes. Serves 10.

Saucepan Spaghetti

Equipment

Measuring cups and spoons

3-quart saucepan with lid

Wooden spoon

Colander

Medium mixing bowl

Large spoon

Can opener

Ingredients

1 pound ground beef

2 ½ cups water

1 15-ounce can tomato sauce

1 tablespoon dried minced onion

1 tablespoon dried oregano crushed

½ teaspoon dried basil, crushed

¼ teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon garlic powder

¼ teaspoon pepper

6 ounces spaghetti

Grated Parmesan cheese (if you like)

Use your hands to break up the meat as you put it into the saucepan. Put the pan on the burner. Turn the burner to medium-high. Cook the meat, stirring with the wooden spoon, till no pink color is left. Turn off the burner.

Place the colander over the mixing bowl. Spoon the ground meat into the colander with the large spoon. Let the fat drain into the bowl. Spoon the ground meat back into the saucepan. Put the fat in a container and throw away.

Stir water, tomato sauce, onion, oregano, basil, salt, garlic powder, and pepper into the pan with the meat. Put the pan on the burner. Turn the burner to high.

Cook till the mixture is bubbly. Break the spaghetti in half. Add the spaghetti to the saucepan. Turn the burner to low. Put the lid on the pan. Simmer about 30 minutes or till the spaghetti is tender when you bite it. Stir the spaghetti often with the wooden spoon.

When the spaghetti is done, turn off the burner. Remove the pan from the burner. Serve the spaghetti with Parmesan cheese, if you like. Serves 4.