HAM AND MUSHROOMS PASTA

Turn your leftover sweet ham into something new and delicious pasta, and your family won't have a clue they're leftovers.....

Ingredients:

200 grams Del Monte spaghetti, cooked per package directions
1-1/2 tbsp Anchor margarine
1/2 cup canned button mushrooms, drained and sliced
3 slices leftover sweet ham, cut into strips
250 grams Del Monte Italian Style spaghetti sauce
1/3 cup Nestle all purpose cream
1-1/2 tbsp chopped parsley (optional)

Procedure:
1. Melt margarine in pan. Saute mushrooms and ham for 5 minutes. Add spaghetti sauce, 1/4 tsp iodized fine salt. Simmer for 10 minutes.
2. Add all purpose cream and parsley. Heat for 2 minutes (do not boil). Pour over or mix with cooked spaghetti. Top with grated cheese, if desired.

FOOD TIP: Butter and Margarine!!!

Store butter and margarine in tightly sealed containers in the refrigerator so they won't absorb other odors.

PASTA SOUPS

Turn chicken tinola into a steaming bowl of macaroni soup....

Ingredients:

8 cloves garlic, crushed

2 pcs chorizo de bilbao, diced

1 cup leftover chicken meat from tinola or binakol, flaked

1 to 2 tsp fish sauce

1 chicken bouillon cube

150 grams Del Monte shell macaroni

100 grams white gourds (upo), diced

1-1/2 to 2 cups leftover chicken tinola, strained and mixed with 4-1/2 to 5 cups water to make 6-1/2 cups

Procedure:

1. Brown garlic in oil. Set aside.

2. Using the same pan, saute chorizo and leftover chicken meat. Season with fish sauce and 1/4 tsp pepper. Add chicken bouillon cube, shell macaroni and broth. Simmer for 10 minutes.

3. Add white gourds(upo) and simmer for 3-5 minutes more or until tender. Add garlic.

NUTRITION TIP:

High in Vitamin B1 that prevents beri-beri.

SPAGHETTI SAUCE WITH ALIGUI

Kids love eating crabs but not the aligui or crab fat. Make a pasta dish with the leftover crabfat that grown-ups will love.....

Ingredients:

250 grams Del Monte spaghetti,cooked per package directions
10 cloves garlic, crushed
5 to 6 tbsp aligui or crab paste
250 grams Del Monte Italian Style spaghetti sauce

Procedure:
1. Fry half of garlic until golden brown in 2 tbsp oil. Set aside. To the remaining half, saute with aligui.
2. Add Del Monte spaghetti sauce and simmer for 10 minutes.
3. Pour over or mix with cooked Del Monte spaghetti. Top with fried garlic.


NUTRITION TIP:
High in Vitamin B12 that prevents anemia.