My husband likes to add cheese, but not me, I want it just like Mom made it. So now that I have solved the problems, I can share this recipe for my favorite old fashioned comfort food. If you like saving money, you might like my post about What’s the Deal at Aldi? I tried the tomato juice from Aldi about a year ago and liked it, so that is what I buy now.
For some reason the store brands never seemed to taste right, I actually have always preferred Campbell tomato juice. I have always been a little picky with the brand of tomato juice that I would use. I fixed that by under cooking the macaroni in the water and letting it finish cooking in the tomato juice.Ī bonus is that it is a very inexpensive dish since all you have to buy is a package of macaroni noodles and a can or bottle of tomato juice. That took care of the seasoning problem, the other problem I had was the macaroni got mushy when I simmered the dish to thicken the tomato juice.
It is amazing the difference it makes when you salt the pasta water. Finally, I learned that you need to salt the water when you boil the pasta or it will never be right. One thing I always had trouble with was the seasoning, I had trouble getting it to taste right, it tasted flat. It is one of the first dishes I taught myself to make after we were married, but it took me a long time to get it right since I didn’t have a recipe. I know a lot of people use tomatoes, but Mom always made macaroni with tomato juice. She used it in a lot of recipes like chili, vegetable soup, goulash, and macaroni with tomato juice. Tomato juice is one thing that she never had to buy, she always had it canned and ready to go.
When I was a kid, my mom did a lot of canning from the garden. Macaroni with tomato juice is a major comfort food for me. With no one coming home for supper, I decided to make one of my favorite dishes from my childhood. I was home today by myself, everyone else was out of town.
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