Elvira’s Adraka Kozerole
Inspired by my hero, Elvira, and the dinner scene in Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, I present Elvira’s Adraka Kozerole. If you’ve seen the movie, the dinner scene is one of the most memorable. It was to me, anyway.
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Picture this: it was 1988, I was nine years old and probably wearing pajamas. We had a big, honkin’ hunk of a TV with four channels, changed by clicking a knob that took all the muscles in my pencil-stick arm to turn. If I remember correctly, the channels we got in Austin were four, thirteen, twenty-four and thirty-two, but don’t quote me on that.
(If this sounds familiar to you, too, then we are both in that weird gray area between Gen-X and Millennial.)
Anyway, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark came on the boob tube (pun intended!) one night and I was smitten. Unfamiliar with her prior Movie Macabre series, it was the first time I’d seen such a funny, independent, confident, sex-positive, badass leading lady on TV. She was immediately my hero; my aspiration.
And when I think about it, I took a lot of my performance inspiration from Elvira during my years as lead-singer of The Hot As Shits. Bless you, Cassandra Peterson.
My version of Adraka kozerole combines fat, wormy pasta with sour cream, spinach, artichoke hearts and a little jalapeño heat. Top that with some squirt cheese and crushed chips and you have a casserole fit for a very hot date (with a terrifying snake monster).
PrintElvira’s Adraka Kozerole
Ingredients
8 ounces thick spaghetti
salt
8 ounces sour cream
10 ounces frozen spinach, thawed and drained
1/2 cup grated Parmesan
12 ounces frozen artichokes, thawed and drained
chopped jalapeños to taste (1-3 pickled or fresh)
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
Optional: spray cheese and chips for garnish
Instructions
Boil the noodles in salted water. Reserve about 1/2 cup cooking water before draining.
Combine drained noodles with remaining ingredients, plus 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
Bake at 400ºF for 20 minutes.
Decorate with spray cheese and crushed Fritos or Doritos if desired.
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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is one of the my favorite movies. I am so glad that you are back!
Mine, too!!! Can you believe Chris had never seen it until I made him watch it this month?!?
So glad you’re back! I have missed your cooking videos so much!
Thanks, Dwight!!
Where have you been? Glad too you are back!
I was wondering what happened to you….welcome back!!
Thanks, Paul!
So happy to see you and your cooking videos again!!!
What would you suggest as a Meat for Adraka kozerole?
I’ve been looking for a recipe for it but all I can find are vegetarian versions and I’m pretty sure those worms, or the hamburger helper weren’t vegetarian lol
Ya know, I might do browned ground chicken with this. Seems like it would be good with the spinach and cheese.