Monday, February 11, 2008

Spaghetti and K-sauce

While cleaning up my Krystal files collection this past weekend I discovered a recipe with pictures from well over a year ago. I searched my archives and it doesn't appear I ever actually posted it, despite my great teaser in this post. I created this recipe well over a year ago, in Sept, 2006, and just never got around to posting it. I never got to posting it partly because I feel it isn't quite complete yet, and I didn't get all the pictures I should have. But it appears I may not ever get a chance to complete this, so you'll have to fill in the blanks on your own.
I love Spaghetti. I can't ever spell it, but I sure can eat it. To be honest, it if has pasta, sauce, meat and cheese, I'm there. (Go meat!) One day as I was making a batch of spaghetti and meatballs, I realized that, once again, Krystals had done a lot of the work for me. Here's what you'll need:
  • Six Krystals (no mustard, no pickles)
  • a jar of your favorite pasta sauce
  • a box of your favorite pasta
  • parmesan cheese is optional
For now ignore the butter and the garlic. We'll get back to that.
The recipe is incredibly simple. First you need to conduct a bun-ectomy on all 6 burgers, and stack up the patties. Try to retain as much of the onions with the meat as you can:
The next step will require you to decide how "chunky" you like your meat sauce. The more chunky you like it, the less you cut up your burgers. If you like it less chunky, you're gonna need to cut or chop the burgers a lot more. I tend to like my sauce rather chunky so I went with 4 cuts and 9 "burger bits" per patty.
After you've cut up your burgers it's time to start cooking the pasta and warming the sauce. Obviously they can both be cooked according to the package instructions, except once the sauce has warmed, you add in the burger bits:
Stir them in, heat through and then pour it over your pasta. Top with the parmesan if desired:
It's really quite tasty. Sort of like little flat onion infused meatballs in your sauce. Of course you're probably wondering what happened to all the bread. I do hate to be wasteful. That part of why I don't do double Krystals. Every double Krystal means a bun top in the trash. So my solution was quite simple. What's spaghetti without garlic bread?!?
Here are the burger bun tops and bottoms about to go under the broiler to toast them slightly before adding the garlic butter. Sadly, there are no more pictures of the bread. With the combined aroma of the Krystals, Sauce, and garlic bread, I was overwhelmed and simply had to put the camera down and dive into the delicious Krys-talian feast in front of me.
Man I could go for some now!
I'm A Krystal Lover

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