I had planned on making cute little sliders tonight for dinner. The boy would have loved them and it would have made a great recipe post.

But you know how it goes, it’s close to dinner time and you realize you don’t everything you need and the kids are screaming for food and the hubs, who is already sick, is getting faint from not eating for two days. So you switch gears and make something else.

Since the hubs is sick I decided to make his favorite comfort food. (Really I decided to cook Sloppy Joe Spaghetti because it’s super easy but don’t tell him that. He thinks I’m the bees knees for making his favorite.)

Ingredients:

1 large box spaghetti

1 can of Sloppy Joe mix

Ground beef (optional)

Three easy ingredients and you have a quick, filling dinner that I’m guessing any man would grunt over and kids always love pasta. I do have to make the boy’s plate without any meat but he does love the Sloppy Joe sauce.

Brown the ground beef, drain, add the sauce and simmer until hot all the way through…toss with cooked pasta.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know it’s like cooking for simpletons..but I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.…this is how a real mom cooks. And while I am sure that any mom out there can cook everything I do without my help..sometimes we just get in a rut and cook the same old, same old for months at a time.

When the kids get bored with a food then you have a hard time getting them to eat. At least that’s how it goes at my house. That’s where I come in. I’m your ‘Need some new easy recipes Fairy Godmother’!

:side note: this is probably one of the least expensive meals I make for my family. we buy big packs of pasta, sloppy joe mix and ground beef at our wholesale club. I don’t know exactly what it comes out to per meal…I barely cook and I don’t do math…but it’s cheap! Add that to the free bread we got at the store this week for buying something we already normally buy and I am suddenly a money-saving-frugal-housewife! At least today.

Some people may look at my super simple recipes and laugh. But when you are tired and stressed and have sweet potato baby food somehow wedged down in the creases of your bra the thought of making a fresh pizza sounds as hard as  Julia Child’s flambe.

Yeah. I don’t really know what a flambe is either. I just know people like JC do it and I do not.

I’m posting this because sometimes we have the means to make things we don’t think about already in the house, we are just too tired to realize it.

Case in point. The boy wanted pizza and since the hubs hates frozen pizza we rarely have it  in the house. I did however have cheese and cresent rolls so I just made due and came up with this:

Here’s what I used:

2 cans cresent rolls

1 can diced tomato

2 big sp0oons full of spaghetti sauce left over in the fridge

Shredded Mozzarella and cheddar cheese left over in the fridge

Here’s what I did:

Rolled the dough out flat

Cooked in 400 degree oven for 10 minutes before I put toppings on

Put toppings on and returned to over until cheese got bubbly

It’s always the simple things like this that my family loves. There was nary a piece of pizza left after dinner that night. I have slaved in the kitchen for hours making them homemade sauce or special deserts and they ghetto-style pizza and powdered donuts. Go figure.

Before you say “ewwww spaghetti and eggs!!! gross” and I know that’s exactly what you are saying because I did years ago when someone first served it to me. Lemme  ‘splain.

If done to your taste it is a super easy, delicious, healthy real mom recipe. I mean who doesn’t have eggs and pasta in the house at all times? I love a meal that I can throw together at 5:30pm and my fam thinks I’ve planned it out lovingly in advance.

And if you make this without any picker eaters watching you…they will never know that you’ve added “icky eggs” and you can get some protein in your carb loving kid. Yep, it’s sneaky but that’s how I roll.

:side note: this recipe works as a comfort/hangover food as well. Or so I’ve been told.

So there are a few ways to make Spaghetti and Eggs.

Choice #1 – Boil noodles … scramble eggs..add cheese and mix

Choice #2 – Boil noodles … fry some eggs sunny side up (or whatever) and place eggs on top of spaghetti bird nest style

or the last and best way in my humble opinion

Choice #3 – My Recipe

Ingredients:

4 to 5 eggs

Grated parm cheese

Boiled spaghetti noodles

Salt, pepper and garlic if you like

Tiny bit olive oil

Then You:

Pour a little bit of olive oil in a big sized frying pan and drop each egg in not breaking the yolks

Cook eggs for maybe two minutes and then mix in your already boiled pasta

Mix well and cook for about 4-5 more minutes until eggs are done

The eggs and olive oil make a sort of sauce that sticks to the pasta

Add salt, pepper and garlic (optional) and then top with grated cheese