So pathetic

Thatboy is ridiculously, unbelievably spoiled. Regardless of my personal opinions on his father's cooking/serving style Thatboy believes him to be a fantastic chef. We all know he lucked out in meeting me since I keep him knee deep in prepared meals. In fact, he mentioned just the other day that he doesn't know what's in the fridge because "if you haven't noticed, I only go into the fridge to get something to drink. For food, I just sit on the couch and wait for you to bring it to me."

And yet he still whines, begs, and cries for some of his mom's recipes. I have no desire to make her recipes since
a) she gave them to me and like the Actress didn't include vital information in the recipe
b) the woman's idea of seasoning pretty much begins and ends with lemon pepper. Chinese chicken salad? lemon pepper. Meatballs? lemon pepper. Soup? Lemon pepper. I grew up in a house without lemon pepper. We had lemons, we had pepper, but I didn't even know lemon pepper existed before meeting Thatboy. It's not my favorite seasoning.

But 2 years of begging wears a girl down. And so I pulled out her recipe for spaghetti. My issues with this recipe?
1) Lemon Pepper
2) Lack of ingredient amounts
3) The ingredients that do give amounts seem to be...off....
4) One of the ingredients is some local seasoning mix that is un-google-able. There is no indication as to what's in this seasoning mix and of course she's never given it to me. Nice. Makes it really easy to recreate the recipe.

When I made the recipe, surprise surprise, Thatboy thought it wasn't saucy enough. I tried to explain that it's because there was an inordinately small amount of tomato sauce in it but in the end I just shrugged and passed him some lemon pepper with his milk.

Thatinlaw's Spaghetti

• 2 cans of tomato sauce (16 oz)
• 1 lb lean hamburger
• 1/2 onion
• 1 cup slice mushrooms
• 1-2 cloves garlic
• 4 Tbsp "Italian Secret" (I used a handful of fresh basil, chiffonade)
• lemon pepper (I used about 2 Tbsp)
• Garlic salt (I used about 1 Tbsp)

1. Saute Hamburger with garlic salt and lemon pepper.
2. In a larger pan saute chopped and mushrooms, garlic, and onions. (I removed the ground beef from the pan and cooked all of this in the same pan)
3. Add hamburger, tomato sauce and Italian secret and cook on low for 30 minutes.

Serves 4.
Each serving has:

Calories		417.9
Total Fat		24.1 g
Cholesterol		85.1 mg
Sodium		452.2 mg
Potassium		637.5 mg
Total Carbohydrate		25.5 g
Protein		25.4 g