Spaghetti Sauce over Pasta with green salad and garlic cheese bread

Spaghetti Sauce over Pasta with green salad and garlic cheese bread

by Jes Mostek

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***Save second half of french bread loaf and extra 1/2 lb of ground beef for Friday's meal

Serve your favorite canned spaghetti sauce over the cooked pasta. You will use one half regular-sized jar/can or half of a jumbo-sized can/jar of spaghetti sauce. Add ground beef cooked & drained to the spaghetti sauce. Serve with bagged salad and four servings of “Hot & Crusty Garlic Cheese Bread”.

In addition to the recipe, you will also need the following for this meal:

1 (26 oz.) can spaghetti sauce

1/2 lb ground beef

1 box spaghetti noodles

1 bagged salad

Recipe:

Hot & Crusty Garlic-Cheese Bread

by Jes Mostek

serves: 4

Ingredients:

1/2 loaf French Bread

1/4 c. unsalted butter, melted

1 clove fresh garlic, minced (or 1/2 tsp. powder per clove)

1/2 tsp. salt

1 1/2 c. grated mozzarella cheese

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350°F. Cut 2 pieces of aluminum foil about one foot long (about 6” longer than the length of the bread).

In a small bowl, combine melted butter with garlic powder and salt. With serrated bread knife, slice bread lengthwise. Lay out bread on one of the sheets of foil. Using a pastry brush, a spoon, or your fingers, spread melted butter mixture on both cut sides of the bread. Sprinkle the cheese over one side of the bread.

Put the bread back together like a sandwich and wrap completely in the foil. Bake at 350°F for about 20 minutes, or until cheese is melted. Cut into slices and serve hot.