pasta

Ziti Bake Cake

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Ingredients:
9″ springform pan
1 lb ziti
spaghetti sauce (see below or use your own)
8oz shredded mozzarella

Sauce Ingredients:
1lb ground beef
2-12oz cans crushed tomatoes
1-6oz can tomato paste
herbs and spices to taste

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

For the sauce, brown the ground beef on medium heat until fully cooked and drain the fat. Try to break the beef into the smallest pieces possible. Add the tomatoes, tomato paste, and spices and continue cooking on medium-low heat for about 20 minutes.

Cook the ziti according to package direction. When the ziti is done, stand the noodles in a springform pan that has been coated lightly with cooking spray.

Pour the sauce on top of the ziti, trying to fill the noodles as much as possible.

Next add the cheese to the top of the dish.

Bake for 15 minutes.

Teriyaki Chicken Ramen

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Ingredients
1lb of chicken breasts
1 bottle teriyaki sauce
3 packages instant ramen, chicken flavor
1/4 cup sesame oil
2 tbsp rice wine vinegar
4 large white button mushrooms, thinly sliced
sesame seeds
fresh chopped parsley

In a 350 degree oven bake the chicken breasts covered in teriyaki sauce for about 45 minutes or until the inside temperature has reached 165 degrees. Once the chicken has cooled enough to touch, roughly chop it into bite-sized pieces.

Fill a saucepan with 6-8 cups of water. Add one of the seasoning packets from the ramen, along with the sesame oil and rice wine vinegar. Bring to a boil, add the ramen noodles, and reduce to medium-high heat.

Once the noodles are able to be separated from each other (about 1-2 minutes), add the mushrooms and chicken. Cook for another 2-3 minutes.

Serve in bowls topped with sesame seeds and chopped parsley.

Creamy Tomato Pasta with Zucchini and Meatballs

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Ingredients
1 container Philadelphia Tomato & Basil Cooking Creme  
8 oz pasta  
1 large zucchini  
28 oz can stewed tomatoes  
26 1/2 oz can tomato sauce with mushrooms  
24 frozen meatballs  
2 tsp olive oil  
salt and pepper to taste  

Instructions
Cook and drain the pasta.

While the pasta is cooking sautee the zucchini in the bottom of a large sauce pan with the olive oil.  Once the zucchini is limp add the tomatoes, sauce, and spices. Bring the sauce up to medium heat and stir in the cooking creme.

Cook the meatballs according to the instructions on their package.  Add the meatballs and pasta to the sauce and cook long enough to heat everything.

Buffalo Chicken Pasta

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Buffalo Chicken Pasta

Ingredients
1 pound box of pasta, cooked and drained
2 medium chicken breasts, cooked and shredded 
1/2 onion, chopped
4 slices bacon
1-1/2 cups blue cheese dressing
1/2 cup buffalo wing sauce
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

Instructions
Preheat oven to 375.

Cook the bacon strips in a skillet over medium heat until they are dark brown and crispy.  Using tongs remove the bacon strips from the pan and place them on a few pieces of paper towel to drain the excess oil. 

Cook the onion in the bacon grease until the pieces are soft and translucent. 

Crumble the bacon into a large bowl and add the onion, pasta, chicken, blue cheese dressing, and buffalo wing sauce.  Stir until the ingredients are combined and the sauce coats all of the pasta. 

Pour mixture into a large baking dish. 

Cover the pasta with the shredded mozzarella and bake for 20 minutes or until the cheese is melted and beginning to brown.  Serve immediately.

Spam Casserole

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Spam Csserole

Ingredients:
1 can spam
1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup
2 slices of American cheese
2 tbsp milk
1/4 cup mayo 
3 cups macaroni
1 bag lays original potato chips

Cook the macaroni according to the directions on the package.

Combine the spam, cream of mushroom soup, cheese, milk, and mayo in a food processor and pulse away until the spam is chopped up into small chunks. 

When the macaroni is cooked, drain it and add it immediately to a large bowl with the spam mixture and mix everything together. 

Put the mixture into a lightly greased microwave-safe dish and top it with crushed potato chips. 

Microwave the dish uncovered for 10 minutes.

Ravioli Lasagna

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Ingredients:
1 can spaghetti sauce
1 can diced tomatoes
1 can tomato sauce
1 lb ground beef
1 package of frozen spinach (wring to remove excess water)
1 large package of frozen cheese ravioli (you’ll need about 48 ravioli)
1 c shredded mozzarella cheese
Italian spices/garlic to taste
9×13 baking dish

Preheat oven to 350.

Mix the spaghetti sauce, tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, garlic, various Italian spices, and about a cup of water in a saucepan on low heat.

Ladle about 1/4 of the sauce onto the bottom of the baking dish.

In a sauté pan brown the ground beef and drain off the fat. Then add the beef to the saucepan.

Next layer the ingredients in the baking dish in the following order:

  • Half of the ravioli
  • Half of the meat sauce
  • Spinach
  • The rest of the ravioli
  • The rest of the sauce
  • Mozzarella cheese

 Bake in the oven for 45 minutes.

Chicken French

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Ingredients:
2 tbsp butter or margarine
1/4 cup lemon juice
3/4 cup white wine (dry Riesling recommended)
1 lb boneless chicken breasts or tenders
2 eggs
2 tbsp milk
flour
salt and pepper
vegetable oil
your favorite kind of pasta

Start by pounding out the chicken between some sheets of plastic wrap until the chicken is an inch thick.

Place the flour plus salt and pepper in one pie dish and the milk and eggs into another.

Coat the chicken with a layer of flour, then dredge it in the egg mixture, and then back into the flour again. 

Put the chicken in a pan on medium high heat with a little bit of vegetable oil.  Cook the chicken on one side and flip it over.  It should only take a few minutes on each side to get nice and crispy.

After the chicken is cooked on both sides add the butter, lemon, and white wine and continue cooking it until the butter is completely melted.  Serve on top of pasta.