The Barefoot Kitchen Witch

Spaghetti Spring Rolls

Yes, really.  Spaghetti.  Leftover spaghetti with spaghetti sauce.  Cheese.  A little ground beef.

In egg roll wrappers.

Kind of in the spirit of spaghetti tacos, only deep fried in a wrapper.

Yes.  I went there. 

But not alone.  I had help.

My Fifteen Minutes

Back in April I threw together a quick post about a batch of spaghetti tacos I made for my kids.  You can read that post here.  It was a quick post, just for fun, and I didn't think much of it after that.

But I've noticed, in the last several months, that "spaghetti tacos" is one of the top searches that leads people to my blog.  Spaghetti tacos.  I was, at some point, in the number 2 spot on Google when you looked up spaghetti tacos.  Interestingly, the iCarly website link was in the number 3 spot.  Bizarre.

And then last week I got an email from Helene Stapinski of the New York Times.  She said she was doing a piece on spaghetti tacos and wanted to know if she could talk to me.

Me?

Spaghetti Tacos

Yes, I'll admit it right off the bat.

My kids sometimes watch iCarly.  Which, if you haven't heard of this show, is where the idea for these tacos came from.  Carly's older brother, Spencer, came up with the idea, apparently.

Anyway, Alex and Julia had been requesting spaghetti tacos for some time, and so I finally made some.

Comfort Food - Spaghetti with Clam Sauce

 
Comfort food.

We all have certain dishes that we gravitate toward when we're feeling a little less than 100%.  Foods that wrap us up in a big culinary hug and tell us everything will be okay, and we'll feel better soon. 

Green Spaghetti

(from my old blog...)

When I was a kid my mother would make spaghetti with just butter and chopped parsley sometimes. She (and we) called it "green spaghetti."