With each passing semester, I graduated in my “culinary” world, actually chopping up vegetables, like mushrooms and bell peppers, sauteing them with ground beef and mixing that up in the sauce.
If there's one thing I know about college students is they love to eat. They eat often and often eat whatever is available. My roommate and I have had some weird concoctions during those late night study sessions. Ketchup over rice with corn from a can. Cereal with orange juice. Cereal with soda. This is a good time for me to dive into my goldfish spaghetti story.
It was time for me to make dinner one night and, yes, on the menu was ground beef spaghetti with chopped onions. I started to boil a big pot of water and in a separate pan, I cooked the beef, tossed in the onions and then dumped in a jar of spaghetti sauce. Then I go to the pantry for the spaghetti. What happened to all the pasta?
There is nothing I hate more than not having all the ingredients for a meal, even one as simple as mine. Who ate all the pasta? I looked over at my almost done meat sauce simmering on the stove. I could have it by itself. That wouldn't be horrible. Still, I wanted a starch to sop up the sauce, so I pushed aside the pantry curtain for inspiration. Tortillas? No. Bagel? Eh. Canned corn? Maybe next time. Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Snack Cracker? Hmm. Cheesy and starchy. We have a winner. I ladled some sauce into a bowl and rained orange fish crackers on top.
I'm not going to post the original goldfish spaghetti recipe because, frankly, it wasn't that good. However, I do know it will taste great if you did this:
Make your ultimate lasagna recipe and on the very top, line or sprinkle cheddar flavor goldfish snack crackers, Bake it as you would normally and enjoy the lasagna with a nice cheesy crunch.