Spaghetti spiders
Today I made some spaghetti spiders with the girls. This dish is very simple to make and the kids love it, the perfect combination! The kids can also help preparing it, which they love to do.
Ingredients
Dried spaghetti
Hotdogs
Your favorite pasta sauce (sans the meat)
Cut up the hotdogs in bite sized pieces and push the dry spaghetti’s half way through. We used 4 spaghetti’s in each piece, so our spiders end up having four legs on each side. Next boil the spaghetti’s as per the directions on the package. Another great way to cook spaghetti, and any other type of pasta, is to boil it for 3 minutes, turn off your heat source and let it rest for the amount of time noted as cooking time on the package. Our spaghetti was supposed to boil for 8 minutes, so we boiled it for 3 minutes and let it rest in the hot water for another 8 minutes. This should cook your pasta perfectly al dente!
This is what they should look like when they are done cooking. Now all that’s left to do is adding your favorite pasta sauce.
Thanks to maraz_m_moroz for the original idea!
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Wow!! What a great idea, i´m gonna make that when both my kids are back home.
I cook my pasta´s the same way; let it boil for a few minutes and than let it rest.
I´m glad you posted this recipe, it was a bit quiet on this site!
X your sis