Simple White Pasta Sauce

This is probably one of the first recipes I've ever learned. I got the idea from the editor of my first comics job, JR. Mercado, around 1992.

It is really very simple. These are the basic ingredients:

Cooked Pasta
1 can Campbell Mushroom Soup
2 tablespoons Cheez Whiz

Cook the pasta (spaghetti or macaroni or whatever you like). Cook the Campbell soup according to package directions, which would require you 1 can full of either milk or water. I prefer water because I'm lactose intolerant. Add the 2 tablespoons of Cheez Whiz.

And that's basically it.

However, you can consider this simply a base on which you can add more stuff in. You can chop and fry (or boil) some cold cuts, whichever you prefer. I would recommend bacon and ham. Tonight, so it would be more healthy, I used chicken ham and fish sausage. I chopped some asparagus lying around and threw that in the sauce. I boiled it for a couple of minutes to cook the asparagus.

Upon serving, I topped it with some Parmigiano-Reggiano (you can use parmesan cheese) and some chili flakes.

It's a pretty flexible dish. You can add whatever cold cuts you like, although I would advice NOT using those red hotdogs because the red color kind of leaks out and turns your white sauce red.

Or, you can opt not to have cold cuts at all. Totally up to you.