Anyone ever heard of "Whites"?

[Tab]

My wife, from a semi-Italian family, likes to make "whites" which is basically spaghetti/pasta, butter, and milk (and salt).

Putting spaghetti in milk just is too much for me, but she insists everyone in her family eats it.

I know milk is a step away from alfredo, but milk is NOT alfredo.

By the same token, she puts ketchup on her eggs, which we've posted about here before.

But I'm curious - has anyone else ever had this or made this?

(fwiw, neither she nor her mother are much in the cooking department, so this may simply be a family way to cheap out alfredo, but I'm having trouble rationalizing even that).

[Warpy]

1. I know white lasagnas

They're usually lasganas layered with the same cheeses and with a vegetable, but which use a white sauce of some description (Alfredo if you don't like your dinner guests and want to contribute to coronaries, bechamel if you do like them and want to be kinder) instead of the tomato sauce.

I've never heard of spaghetti in milk fed to anyone out of childhood, though. Maybe this is just comfort food for her.

Introduce her to Sriracha hot sauce. Yeah, it'll still look barbaric sitting on those eggs, but it tastes a helluva lot better than ketchup.

[Tab]

2. Oh, it's comfort food all right

she readily admits that.

I just had never heard of it before.

[NashVegas]

4. Bechamel Sauce?

is what's usually used for that, I think.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

3. The Italian side of my family,

on both sides of the Atlantic, never came up with anything like this. This is a new one on me, I must say. It sounds like a lazy man's Alfredo, but, it also sounds (to me) really awful.

But, you know, it's always whatever gets ya through the night.