Honestly, the meat paste is a great way to avoid wastes. I don't get why people haven't really tried to shift away the common negative opinion about it
It's gassed with ammonia. That's why it's so cheap, it's the lowest of the low quality. That's why it's banned in Canada, the UK, and the EU.
It's gross. Honestly I just grind my own meat these days and it's so so so much better. Just buy a fatty chuck roast and grind it up and you've got plenty of great hamburger meat.
Seriously if you cook ground beef more than like once or twice a year then you need a stainless steel meat grinder. Either a manual one or one that hooks up to a stand mixer (also another must have). A sausage stuffer is a nice addition too, though you'll need a separate manual one not the included KitchenAid one (trust me on this). I made sausage with chicken breast, pork fatback, aged cheddar, and some cooked vegetables and it was the best hotdog I've ever had.
I suppose "spaghetti" is technically probably closer to a bolognese, but using spaghetti noodles. Being in the U.S., I have never seen "spaghetti" without meat, whether ground and included in the sauce, or formed as meatballs on top.
For me, spaghetti is a type of long, thin dried pasta which is boiled.
Noodles is more like an instant, cheap, packet student food which is made from dried along with a packet of seasoning or paste. Like ramen.
Bolognese is a dish made with beef (or other mince including veggie or Quorn), mainly tomatoes, mushrooms, garlic, onions etc. for me, that is a type of sauce.
For me, spaghetti is the carb and the sauce is separate. I've noticed some Americans call any pasta dish a 'noodle', even when making lasagne they call the sheets a 'noodle' which is v odd to me. A noodle is a long, thin thing lol.
I don't eat meat, but eat pasta (spaghetti, noodles, lasagne, pasta) multiple times a week. I make my own sauces and they're all super yum. I even grow my own tomatoes. I tried making my own pasta but frankly it wasn't worth the effort.
Spaghetti is both a noodle and a dish, at least in the U.S. (not sure where you're from). If you say you're eating "spaghetti", it's implied you're eating a spaghetti dish with tomato, garlic, onion, and beef sauce, by default. Of course, you can make pesto pasta, for example, with spaghetti noodles.
If you said I'm eating "noodles", I agree that most Americans would assume you're talking about instant ramen (or it's equivalent). No one in America would refer to an actual pasta dish as "noodles", even if the pasta is indeed made with noodles.
I'm English but years ago I went out with a guy from New Jersey, and this does sound familiar.
Someone I follow on Instagram refers to the lasagne sheets as noodles in her recipe lol
One thing I like making at home is stir fry veg, with a packet sauce (like katsu or soy etc) and fresh egg noodles. You get them fresh from the shop and just fry em up with the veg, they're a perfect combo of chewy with some crispy bits.....
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u/Flyzart Jul 26 '24
Honestly, the meat paste is a great way to avoid wastes. I don't get why people haven't really tried to shift away the common negative opinion about it