Journal #6: Recipe

Ingredients

1. Soy sauce
2. 1 Tablespoon of Canola Oil
3. 1 Tablespoon of Salt
4. Ground beef
5. 9 - 10 pieces of Hot dogs
6. 1 pack Spaghetti sticks
7. Preggo Italian Sauce (Traditional and Mushroom sauce)
8. Filipino Sauce (Secret Ingredient)

Cooking it

1. Fill 2 pots with hot water.
2. Set them on the stove and boil the water. Set the stove on high.
3. In one of the pots, pour a tablespoon of the canola oil and the salt. This pot will be for the spaghetti sticks.
4. In the other pot, the one with pure hot water, take the ground beef and with your hands, rip apart pieces of it and scatter them into the pot.
5. Stir for a few minutes
6. For the other pot, lower the temperature to 8. Then, take just a small amount of pieces of sticks and set them neatly into the boiling pot.
7. Stir for a few minutes
8. Now for the spaghetti pot, lower the temperature to 7.
9. Stir for a few more minutes.
10. For the ground beef pot, check if the meat has turned a dark brownish color and there is no longer red meat. If it has, turn the stove off for that particular pot.
11. Once the pot has cooled down, take it to the sink and pour down the water carefully - leaving only the meat inside.
12. Now rinse the meat with water for about 3-4 times to remove excess fat.
13. Once you are done, transfer the meat into a large bowl.
14. Wash the pot that the ground beef was originally in.
15. Then, put the meat back into the pot.
16. Place the pot back onto the stove and boil it. Set the stove on 8.
17. Now take your tongs and open the spaghetti pot. Check the spaghetti and constantly stir it for a few minutes.
18. Now, go to the ground beef pot and lower the temperature to medium.
19. Now, take the 9 - 10 pieces of hot dog and place them into a bowl. With a knife, take 1 piece of hot dog and cut it in half. Then, set both pieces side by side and cut them diagonally - about half an inch. Do this for all the pieces.
20. Now increase the temperature for the ground beef pot to 8.
21. Go to the spaghetti pot and begin to stir again. Check your spaghetti and if it seems as though the water is draining out, add more water. This way the spaghetti has a more shiny texture and are non-sticky.
22. Stir for a few minutes.
23. Keep adding water if necessary. Don’t add too much. Only 8 oz. every pour.
24. Stir for a few minutes.
25. Now take a spoon and stir the ground beef. Put the temperature on high.
26. Check the spaghetti pot once again. And if it needs more water, add a cup of water and stir.
27. Once you hear the crackling of the ground beef, decrease the stove temperature to medium.
28. Now get a spoon and stir the ground beef. Keep stirring until the floor of the pot turns brown.
29. After the floor of the pot turns brown, decrease the temperature to 7.
30. Keep stirring for a few minutes.
31. Check the spaghetti pot and keep stirring.
32. Stir the ground beef again.
33. Once the beef looks brown and has a dry texture to it and the floor of the pot is brown, and when you feel that it is ready, pour in the pieces of hot dog that you cut.
34. Stir thoroughly.
35. Check the spaghetti and stir.
36. Check the ground beef and stir again.
37. Take 2 serving spoon fulls of soy sauce and pour them into the ground beef.
38. Stir.
39. Decrease the temperature for both the spaghetti and the ground beef to medium.
40. Take the Preggo Italian Sauce (Traditional) and pour the whole bottle into the pot of ground beef.
41. Stir.
42. Check the spaghetti pot and begin to taste the noodles.
43. Now, get a helping hand, so that both of you guys and stir the spaghetti and the ground beef together for at least 3 minutes.
44. Take the Preggo Italian Sauce (Mushroom) and pour the whole bottle into the ground beef pot.
45. Stir.
46. Check the spaghetti and taste it. Then, stir. Approximately, 39 minutes into cooking, the spaghetti should be ready. When it is, turn the stove off and carry the pot over to a sink. Pour the water out - leaving the spaghetti inside.
47. Transfer the spaghetti into a large bowl.
48. Pour cold water over the spaghetti and drain out the water. Constantly do this until the spaghetti has cooled down.
49. After the spaghetti has cooled down, transfer the spaghetti back into the pot and close it.
50. Take the Filipino sauce and pour a whole bottle and a half into the ground beef pot. (Sorry, the actual name of the sauce has been blocked, since it is a chef’s secret.)
51. Stir. About 45 minutes into cooking, the spaghetti and the ground beef sauce should be ready. Make sure to taste them if they satisfy your palette. If it does, turn the stove off and place them onto the dinner table for every one to enjoy.
52. Clean up your area.

• Always stir for 2-3 minutes. Make sure to alternate when you are cooking. It should go at this pattern: beef - spaghetti - beef - spaghetti and so on.
• Careful, this recipe requires for good timing and mind presence. :)