10 Different Ways to Cook your Spaghetti

We love spaghetti. This is a very popular dish in parties, especially in Kid's Birthdays. There are different ways and styles on how to cook your favorite spaghetti, for a change.

Here are the 10 Different Ways to Make your Spaghetti Special.



10. Funny Chicken with Sesame Noodles

This is a different style to cook your spaghetti. In common spaghetti, we are using ground pork, but here, we used chicken (like chicken breast) and sesame seeds. The cooking procedure is similar to common way to cooked spaghetti. The other ingredients are soy sauce, teriyaki sauce, scallions, sesame oil and seeds.






9. Spaghetti Carbonara

This style is now common to us because we usually ate this in some parties and occasions. A salad-type spaghetti contains bacon, eggs, cheese and milk. Also this is similar to cooked in common spaghetti dish, only that instead of spaghetti sauce, it uses cream milk. 




8. Pork and Vegetable Lo Mein

Enjoy your spaghetti in healthy way. This spaghetti style is very good to health because it contains different kinds of vegetables. Same procedure, only the ingredients are made with different colorful vegetables such as red pepper, cabbage, celery ribs, carrot, bell peppers and the soy sauce.





7. Baked Spaghetti

Other twist in cooking spaghetti is by baking it. In this style, you need an oven to make it. Just like how to bake a cake, you need to cook first the ingredients. Sauteing the onions, green peppers, and ground beef. In other bowl, mix the cream milk, mushroom soup and water. Then place it all in baking pan including the pasta, the cooked meat, the mixed cream milk with mushroom, cheese and baked for 30-35minutes.



6. Peanut Noodles

A different way to cooked you spaghetti is by making is more unique. Serve you family with this new spaghetti dish. The same ways to cooked the pasta only it has ingredients like peanut butter. Then cooked the sauce. Mixed the oil, onions, ginger, peanut butter, soy sauce, water, vinegar sugar and red pepper flakes. Then toss the pasta with the sauce and serve.




5. Garlic Shrimp Pasta

One of easy style to cook your spaghetti. Instead of meat, it uses shrimp. It is simple because the ingredients are few. After cooking and draining the pasta, cooked the shrimp in butter, garlic, ground pepper, red pepper flakes salt (you can also put herbs depends to your taste). Then add the pasta and keep tossing until its okay and ready to serve. 



4. Ham Tetrazzini

This style of spaghetti dish is also using cream milk. Same procedure with the pasta, but the ingredients is bit different. Instead of ground meat, it uses ham. After draining the pasta, cooked onions in butter until tender, then add the cream of mushroom sop, water and shredded cheese. Add the ham and drained pasta with chopped pimento and parsley and stir until its okay and ready to serve.




3. Spaghetti Pie

A bit different way to cook spaghetti. But it is worth it to serve your family a very unique and new tasting spaghetti dish. You need an oven to make it. Cooked your spaghetti in common way, including the ingredients like the ground beef, garlic, salt, ground black pepper, bell pepper, and pasta sauce. In other bowl, mix the sour cream, green onions and cream cheese. Then put them together in baking pan, sprinkle with cheddar cheese, cover and baked for 25mins. serve when the cheese is bubbly.



2. Spaghetti Cake

Another way to make spaghetti is baking it. Make a Spaghetti Cake! This is also easy if you have an oven at home. Just like making a cake, you need first to mix all the ingredients. Cook and drain the pasta. Combine in bowl the cheese, Italian seasoning (Sauce) and egg whites (reserve some for the toppings) and toss with the cooked pasta until it all coated. Put them in baking pan and sprinkle with fresh basil and top with half tomatoes. Repeat twice and put provolone cheese over the top. Bake for 30 minutes, then remove the pan and transfer to serving platter and cut into desire shape.


1. Spaghetti Pizza Lasagna

Spaghetti, Pizza and Lasagna, IN ONE! Try this new style of spaghetti dish that will surely surprise your family. This is easy to make. You will need an oven for baking. Cook pasta in common way and drain. Then cook the ground beef with oil and onions. In other bowl, combined the eggs and milk, season with salt and pepper. Then in baking tray, put the pasta, pour the mixed milk and egg over pasta and then the pasta sauce. Put and distribute the cooked ground beef and sprinkle with garlic powder, onion and pepperoni slices (you can also add oregano if like) and top with shredded cheese. Bake in oven for 30 minutes until the cheese became bubbly. Cut like pizza and serve.

Have a try with those styles and I'm sure your family will be happy.

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Most Exotic Foods in the Philippines

If you visit Philippines, you shouldn't missed to taste their popular exotic foods and cuisines.

Here the TOP 10 of  the exotic foods that you might try when you are visiting Philippines.

10. Snake

This is one of the exotic food in the Philippines. But, now, not just in the Philippines but also in some other parts of the world they make snake as one of their source of food. In some other Asian countries,  like Korea and Japan, they make beverages and wines from snakes. Some easy ways to cook snake is by fried and grilling.

9. Dinuguan

Dinuguan, came from a Filipino word "dugo" which means, "Blood". In English, is called Pork Blood Stew or Blood Pudding Stew. Is is made either from pork or chicken meat. Dinuguan is served with rice and the famous Philippine Rice Cake or "Puto".

8. Kinilaw/Kilawin

A Philippine dish made with raw fish or meat or sometimes shrimp that's marinated in vinegar, pepper, chili, onions, calamansi juice and garlic. It served in fresh, without cooking. It is also known as "jumping salad" because it sometimes made of live shrimps. 

7. Bats

Another exotic foods that can be eaten in Philippines is the Paniki or fruit Bat, found in different mountains in Philippines. Removing its soft hairs before cooking it in different species such as coconut milk, herbs, and pepper.

6. Grasshopper

Grasshopper can be an appetizer and also dessert. In Philippines, the common way to cooked it is fried. But, their are some people who are making it into a special dish or even a cakes. But, before making one, you should have asked for help and instructions to some professionals.

5. Street Foods

In Philippines Street Foods, they are consists of easy to prepare and eat foods in low price. Some find it dirty but this is one of the favorite foods in almost different parts of the Philippines. In Street foods it includes the Adidas (Chicken feet), Betamax (Dried Chicken Blood), Chicken Skin, Fishballs/Squidballs, Iwi or Pwet ng Manok (fried chicken ass).

4. Wood Worms

It is known as the Tamilok in Filipino words. It can be found in bakawan or other mangroves by the bayside. The very best way to eat Tamilok is when it is raw or alive. Some other people cooked Wood Worm or Tamilok in special dish.

3. Frogs

In Philippines, frogs can be cooked in different ways such as Sisig, Adobo, soup or fried. But, take note, not all frogs can be cooked because some of them are extremely dangerous and poisonous. In some restaurants, they served frogs as one of their main dish and also their are restaurants in the Philippines that only serves frogs.

2. Crickets

Is one the Kapampangan cuisime made in the Philippines which the main ingredients is Kamaru or the Mole Crickets. THey are usually found in rice fields. You can make different dishes with it like adobong kamaru, sizzling sisig, and fried. These insects are rich in protein and vitamin B.

1. Balot

Is the very popular and most famous exotic food in Philippines. It is a duck's egg which boiled alive. It is pair with salt or chili, garlic and vinegar. Some other chiefs find ways to enjoy balot in different ways. There are ice cream, cakes and special dishes made from balot. This is one of the favorite food not only with the  Filipino people but other foreigners founds it delicious.

There are still more Philippines Exotic foods out there, well its up to you to explore and discover.. :)

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