Around 4:20 I started getting my supplies ready for the pasta. I mainly just needed to buy ground beef but also got some extra Italian seasoning since I wasn't sure we still had some more. Unfortunately I forgot to check for onions and so I didn't put any onions into the following pasta. I did compensate with celery and lots of garlic though. Mom came around 4:30 and frankly she did most of the work so I will honor that effort with due credit. Thanks mom. It seemed the process was the same: brown the ground beef with some seasoning first, drain excess moisture and grease, re-add some olive oil, add mushrooms, celery, garlic, and more seasoning, toss together and then add pasta sauce and salt as needed. The only thing I would change would be to salt throughout the cooking, adding salt at the very beginning to encourage even more moisture to draw out and to deeply season the meat. In the meantime I cooked an entire 16oz of spaghetti in the Instant Pot which, as ever, turned out perfect. Finally we combined the sauce with the pasta in the Instant Pot and I was essentially ready to go. I brought my laptop for the replication gamer night shoot and the whole container of shredded Parmesan and some cilantro and yes, House of Leaves, in case I decided to go insane that night.
"[Growing up] is hard and nobody understands." // https://www.homestuck.com/story/2391