When I was growing up, my mom did all the cooking in the house. Eating dinner together as a family was an important part of the day and my mom always seemed to have an endless amount of interesting and unique recipes, some of which she has passed on to me and are staples in our house now as well. When I was about 13 or 14 my mom found a recipe for spaghetti with peanut butter and being adventurous, she decided to try it out on us...it didn't go over well and never made it into my mom's repertoire of favorite dishes to make and became a joke amongst my friends as I was the one whose mom makes peanut butter spaghetti. Fast forward 20 or so years and I found myself whipping up peanut butter and spaghetti for lunch today. Asian food is probably my favorite cuisine and Andrew and I have made a few different recipes that call for an Asian peanut butter sauce on noodles. This is mostly inspired by the cold noodle dish we get from Tapei and Tokyo, a favorite dinner spot in Manchester. Anyway, it's rainy and I'm bored today and was looking around the kitchen for something to have for lunch. In the fridge we had baby spinach, carrots, limes, garlic, cilantro (the cilantro in the Aero garden is not ready yet) and in the pantry whole wheat spaghetti, soy sauce and of course...peanut butter. I had ripped out a recipe from a magazine that I thought had the same ingredients and sure enough, it was almost exactly what I needed...minus the chicken and no hot sauce. It turned out good and made lots of leftovers...mmmm peanut butter spaghetti...who knew my mom knew what she was doing all those years ago? First tomato sandwiches and now peanut butter spaghetti..thanks mom!
1 comment:
I don't remember that at all. However I do sometimes use this combination with pasta. I usually add a few tablespoons of creamy peanut butter with a few shakes of soy sauce. Good combination, it seems to go really well with rice noodles over a stir-fry, not just pasta.,
Dave
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