Pass Around Macaroni and Tomatoes is a southern Appalachian comfort food staple, suitable as a pass around side dish for most meals.
Pass Around Macaroni and Tomatoes
By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
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Pass Around Macaroni and Tomatoes is my recipe of the day with the blogging group Alphabet Recipe Challenge. Every other week, The group posts recipes on an ascending letter in the alphabet from A until the end of the year when we get to Z. This week we’re sharing recipes with the letter T. My T keyword is tomatoes presented here and an economical and comfort food side dish.
At first glance pass around macaroni and tomatoes might seem like somebody forgot to put the meat in some Johnny Marzetti or American Goulash. But I can tell you this is not the case. It’s not every meal we’re going to be adding Beef Pork and veal willy-nilly to every pasta dish. Occasionally you might have something like Chicken Parm or Veal Piccata. And those are going to need a side dish.
With other recipes such as meatloaf or Swiss steak you might like a pasta side dish with a slightly different flavor. So this one is less on the herbal spices of the Mediterranean and a little bit more sweet and just basically pared down to the the bare bones. Which is where you get to a place that children really love the food. So you’re going to find this is a really easy and cheap thing to whip up to add to your supper on any given night. I hope you enjoy enjoying us again in a couple of weeks when we’re going to be celebrating some “U” recipes. what would “You” make? ROFL!
Alphabet Recipe Challenge
“T” Recipes
- Jolene’s Recipe Journal: Tomato Tortellini Soup
- Karen’s Kitchen Stories: Tangerine Ricotta Cookies
- Food Lust People Love: Roasted Chicken Thighs with Stuffing
- A Messy Kitchen: Blueberry Buckle Tassies
- Sneha’s Recipe: Thakkali Chammanthi /Tomato Chutney
- Palatable Pastime: Pass Around Macaroni and Tomatoes
- Blogghetti: Thanksgiving Turkey Veggie Platter
- Culinary Cam: Bitter Orange and Blackberry Thumbprint Cookies
- A Day in the Life on the Farm: Michigan End of Summer Harvest Salad
- Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice: Budget-Friendly Chunky Potato Soup with Thyme
- Mayuri’s Jikoni: Mini Taco Salad Cups
Pass Around Macaroni and Tomatoes
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Pass Around Macaroni and Tomatoes
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Pass Around Macaroni and Tomatoes
Equipment
- 1 pasta pot
Ingredients
- 2 cups uncooked elbow macaroni
- 15 ounces canned crushed tomatoes
- 15 ounces canned diced tomatoes
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 2 tablespoons bacon grease
Instructions
- Cook macaroni according to package directions and drain.
- While macaroni cooks, heat remaining ingredients in a saucepan.
- Stir in cooked macaroni and serve hot.
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Yum, a tomato pasta almost stewp! The bacon grease sounds like a fantastic flavor bump. I actually have some saved for once!
I love the name “pass around.” I had something like this growning up, but made with canned tomato soup but served more like a side. This brings back memories!
When I see pass around I’ve seen a lot of people that would make big pots of stuff and then pass it around the table serving it right out of the pot. And the place where I lived this just with tomatoes wasn’t real common but more where I lived it was a big thing to have buttered noodles and I know people who would cook those in a spaghetti pot and feed a huge family mostly on that back in the days when we had those high prices for food in the ’70s.
Total comfort food for kids and grownups! Pass it my way, please, Sue!
I’m pretty sure most kids who can cook would be able to handle this one cuz there’s not a lot to it.
This is the perfect mid-week meal. Super fast and easy.
I’ve got a feeling that a lot of kids in college dorms would be able to handle this on it’s really easy even if it’s not really that fancy.
I’ve never heard of this recipe before…but it sure does sound delicious. And, I really like that it’s more of a side dish than a main meal. The bacon grease sounds like a nice touch too!
It’s not something I grew up with. If my mom was cooking Mac she’d usually cook up some blue box and throw in 8 oz of tomato sauce and a pound of burger and an onion chopped up and that was about it. But my dad would have had an aneurysm if he had his dinner without meat in it.
The world would be a better place if there were more dishes with bacon grease in them! My gram used to keep it in a jar in the fridge. I need to start doing that!
I find it comparable to other animal fat so it doesn’t really make any difference to me health-wise, however it does at a ton of flavor especially if you’re making a home fries.
Sounds creamy and delicious!
Sue I often make something similar but without the bacon grease. Hubby calls it the lycopene fix as it is full of tomatoes. Simple and yet so flavourful.
I’m detoxing from pasta this week LOL….but as soon as I’m done this is going onto my table.