{"id":10616,"date":"2012-03-28T09:16:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T16:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=10616"},"modified":"2012-03-28T09:20:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T16:20:30","slug":"unstuffed-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/03\/28\/unstuffed-shells\/","title":{"rendered":"Unstuffed Shells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week I came across a cooking website recommended by <a href=\"http:\/\/bandsp.blogspot.com\/\">Barefoot and Sometimes Pregnant<\/a>. Here&#8217;s what I made last night:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/PastaBake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10617 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/PastaBake-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/PastaBake-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/PastaBake-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">1. Cook 4 cups of pasta shells in water without salt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">2. Meanwhile, brown 1lb of lean beef in a skillet (you should be able to do this without needing oil)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">3. Once meat is browned, add a jar of pasta sauce (you can add extra mushrooms and peppers if you wish). Simmer for 2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">4. Whisk together:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">3\/4 cup of <em>Philadelphia<\/em> Cream Cheese<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">1\/2 cup of milk<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">1\/4 cup of shredded Parmesan<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">5. Chop 1\/3 cup of fresh basil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">6. Add basil and pasta to the whisked mixture. Gently stir until all pasta is covered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">7. Pour half of the meat sauce into a 13&#8221; x 9&#8221; baking tray.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">8. Cover with pasta mixture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">9. Cover with remaining meat sauce.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">10. Sprinkle with\u00a0Mozzarella<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">11. Cover with foil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">12. You can now either:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>(a) Delayed Baking:<\/strong> Refrigerate for up to 24 hours, then bake at\u00a0375\u00baF for 40-45 minutes, uncovering after 30 minutes<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>(b) Immediate Baking:<\/strong>\u00a0 Bake at\u00a0375\u00baF for 30 minutes, uncovering after 20 minutes<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">13. You may now also add 1\/3 cup of basil to garnish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week I came across a cooking website recommended by Barefoot and Sometimes Pregnant. Here&#8217;s what I made last night:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[969,304,968,970],"class_list":["post-10616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","tag-cheese","tag-cooking","tag-pasta","tag-recipe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10616"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10621,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616\/revisions\/10621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}