Pot Roast Spaghetti: Last Minute & Unique Comfort Food

Pot Roast Spaghetti is a dish you can make at the last minute that is a unique comfort food combining pot roast and spaghetti into one dish. Pot Roast Spaghetti was the answer to the question “Do you want left over pot roast again?” My wife Pam thought of combining my two favorite foods namely pot roast and spaghetti into this one unique dish. Sure, you can have leftover pot roast for a day or two, but this dish transforms left overs into something more.

I am an engineer so the idea of squaring a number is very common to me. The basic idea is take a number and multiply it by itself. For example, 2 squared is 2 X 2=4 and 3 squared is 3 X 3=9 and so on. This idea comes up in all sorts of calculations from basic algebra to advanced engineering  mathematics. Why I am giving you a math lesson in  a food blog? In the same way numbers can be squared I think this recipe is something like comfort food squared. It combines two comfort foods in such a way that the new combination is transformed into something much greater than the separate pieces.

One of my favorite dinners is pot roast.  It is one of those dinners which comforts my soul; however, I would prefer to skip the usual pot roast and go right to this recipe which I think of as comfort food squared. Pot Roast Spaghetti feeds my inner carnivore as well as my inner “pasta-vore.” Pot Roast Spaghetti combines the savoriness of the meat with the lightness of the pasta producing a unique taste.

There are three secrets to making Pot Roast Spaghetti. First, make the sauce from butter and au jus left over from cooking the roast which produces a savory, delicious and light sauce. Second, use a spaghetti rigati noodle which has grooves or ridges on the outside of the noodle. The ridges hold on to the sauce and adds a little extra chewiness. Third, finish off this dish with some shredded Parmesan cheese and fresh ground black pepper.  

Pot Roast Spaghetti Recipe

Ingredients

1 lb +/- of left over pot roast

1 lb spaghetti rigati

Au Ju left over from cooking the roast

Shredded Parmesan Cheese

Black Pepper (to taste)

 

Instructions

1. Shred the left over pot roast
2. Saute shredded roast in butter and au jus in large skillet until warmed

   

3. Cook pasta per instructions minus one minute
4. Add pasta to sillet containg pot roast
5. Add shredded Parmesan cheese
6. Mix

   

7. Add more Parmesan cheese on top along with fresh ground black pepper to taste
8. Be comforted!