Asian Spaghetti & Meatballs (pic)

Asian Spaghetti & Meatballs

OK, there are times when I come up with some fairly outlandish culinary
creations. In this particular case I use the term "culinary" with quite a bit
of artistic license. This, my fellow foodies, is in deep left field, at the
warning track.



This dish is a very vivid illustration of how much I enjoy finding creative
uses of leftovers. It's not a recipe, but rather, just a wild-eyed experiment
that I want to share.

Sandi made sweet-and-sour meatballs for our church Christmas social this
past Friday. As always, we had enough food for roughly three times as
many people as showed up. Oh, and I had to bring finger sandwich fixins so
that I wouldn't show up empty-handed. Food is a terrible disease.

Anyhow, we had a bunch of meatballs left and I felt compelled to use
them. Sweet-and-sour meatballs are a bit if a culinary contradiction to
begin with, so why not build on it? Chinese spaghetti and meatballs? Yup, I
went with it.

This is nothing more than a stir-fry of cooked linguine, frozen stir-fry
veggies, mushrooms, and pineapple chunks that is served with a generous
portion of the sweet-and-sour meatballs on top. For the stir-fry I used
peanut oil, ginger, garlic, a dash of fish sauce, and some red chile flakes. I
added a little hoisin sauce at the end to add a little added flavor complexity.

It was pretty good.

John

T-Man said:

Looks great... As far as perking up some recipes , one can do a lot with hosin sauce and a little bit of fish sauce .

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Indeed! It's very versatile.

John

Ron_L said:

My first thought was "ummm..." but after looking at the picture and reading your post it sounds pretty good :-D

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That is exactly the reaction I was after. :wink:

"What the...? :shocked: Hey, wait... :idea:"

John