Peanut Butter Spaghetti
CF ID: tenworks
I grew up in a meat and potatoes farm family with home grown food at every meal.
When I left home, I was introduced to new ways of thinking and eating and, in my late 20's, I decided to become a vegetarian. This was so far removed from what I had learned as a child that I had to spend hours and hours with my head in cookbooks.Being the type of person who has trouble focusing on one thing at a time, I found myself reading a cookbook until I thought I knew what I needed to do and then reading some self-help book while I prepared and stirred my food - one of those many lessons on learning to focus.One day I was having some vegetarian friends over for dinner and decided to cook tofu spaghetti sauce in my usual non-focused way. My cookbook was open on one side of the table and Wayne Dyer on the other. As I was working on my spaghetti sauce, I noticed that the ingredients were a bit odd - like the peanut butter - but decided that, since I knew virtually nothing about vegetarian cooking, I was just going to follow orders and not get my head in the way.I followed the recipe exactly - or thought I had. As it turned out, the spaghetti sauce was on the right hand side of the page. That's where I started. Then, for the last half of the recipe, I used the recipe from the left hand side of the page. I don't remember what it was. When I realized the problem is was too late to do anything about it.I was a self-supporting university student. My finances didn't allow me the option of throwing it out and starting over. I served the spaghetti to my guests without explanation or commentary.We all loved it and I refused to give anyone the recipe.