Million Dollar Barf-ghetti

More than a year ago, I found a recipe for something called Million Dollar Spaghetti. Listen to the description that was attached to the recipe: “You will never stop eating it until you EXPLODE. So. Good.”.

Sounded promising… so I thought I'd give it a try. For those of you not familiar with this culinary delight - it is a baked spaghetti dish made with sauce, meat, and various types of cheese.

Spaghetti - good.

Sauce - good.

Meat - Good.  

Cheese - good.  

(If you didn’t read it in this voice, I’m disappointed) ...and it turned out as good as a custard-jam-beef trifle.

The day I decided to make this, I had just come home from work and I was starving. Which is probably why I didn’t read the recipe and immediately realize this would be disgusting. Two of the cheeses I needed were cream cheese and cottage cheese (two things I love, but maybe not the best together in a recipe). The recipe was easy enough to make…. when it was done I took a bite. It was sooo rich and not very delicious. I wish I had pictures to showcase the unappealing nature of this dish (hint: it looked like spaghetti and barf). I piled on extra pasta and sauce to salvage it and since it was late, I ate it anyway.

I just couldn’t bear to throw out a full baking pan of food so I ended up eating this every night for dinner for a week. Every. single. night. When they said "until you explode", maybe they meant until you throw up? I still don't understand how this recipe got so popular. When Mike came home from traveling for work and saw what I had been eating, he officially banned all pinterest recipes…. until the homemade oreos of course :)