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Trashy childhood favourite
While I was growing up, this was one of my families' absolute favourites. I once was a completely regular dish even occasionally cooked for guests, but through the years, it got morphed into utter trashiness by my mum's and my disability to finish whatever packed of cold cuts we'd open.
It goes like this:
Dice an onion. Heat water for pasta. Fry onions in butter/oil/bacon grease/whatever you have available. Cook pasta (doesn't matter which kind, bonus point for trashiness if you use leftovers of different kinds). Rummage the fridge for something meaty. You find some ham that was supposed to go on a sandwich but was forgotten half a week ago? Some mortadella or bologna that smells still fine but you wouldn't want to eat solo anymore? Pork sausage you thought was a good idea to buy? Hot dogs dangerously close to their date of expiry? A packet of salami slices way too big to finish in sandwich form only? Great. Cut it up, throw it in. Stir-fry everything until the meat is crispy and the onions are translucent. Drain pasta, add to pan. The original version contained some eggs, too, but those can be left out. Fry a little longer, until pasta starts to brown. Season with pepper, salt and some herbs if available (we usually take everything that's in the garden, I once even threw some peppermint in there - it tasted okay).
Ketchup tastes great with it, as does barbecue sauce.
Today's version contained plain bologna, bologna with pistachios, pork sausage, ham sausage and a little bit of diced bell pepper since it was the decoration for the tray of assorted cold cuts we served for mum's birthday.
It is called "Wurstnudeln" by the way, the literal translation being "sausage noodles/pasta", but I don't think that quite describes it.
It goes like this:
Dice an onion. Heat water for pasta. Fry onions in butter/oil/bacon grease/whatever you have available. Cook pasta (doesn't matter which kind, bonus point for trashiness if you use leftovers of different kinds). Rummage the fridge for something meaty. You find some ham that was supposed to go on a sandwich but was forgotten half a week ago? Some mortadella or bologna that smells still fine but you wouldn't want to eat solo anymore? Pork sausage you thought was a good idea to buy? Hot dogs dangerously close to their date of expiry? A packet of salami slices way too big to finish in sandwich form only? Great. Cut it up, throw it in. Stir-fry everything until the meat is crispy and the onions are translucent. Drain pasta, add to pan. The original version contained some eggs, too, but those can be left out. Fry a little longer, until pasta starts to brown. Season with pepper, salt and some herbs if available (we usually take everything that's in the garden, I once even threw some peppermint in there - it tasted okay).
Ketchup tastes great with it, as does barbecue sauce.
Today's version contained plain bologna, bologna with pistachios, pork sausage, ham sausage and a little bit of diced bell pepper since it was the decoration for the tray of assorted cold cuts we served for mum's birthday.
It is called "Wurstnudeln" by the way, the literal translation being "sausage noodles/pasta", but I don't think that quite describes it.