Veggie Cheesy Bake

Veggie Cheesey Bake

Ingredients:

1 lb ziti or penne pasta (you could also use rotini; basically whatever you have on hand)
8 oz. ricotta
1 egg
3 C tomato sauce
2 C mozzarella cheese
1 small can mushrooms
1 can peas

Directions:
-Preheat oven to 350
-Boil pasta until al dente; drain
-Mix half of the ricotta and egg substitute in a small bowl. Add remaining ricotta to warm pasta and mix. Then add egg/ricotta mixture to pasta and combine well.
-Add about 1/2-1 C sauce on bottom of 9x13 baking dish and spread to cover bottom. Mix 2 C sauce with pasta mixture and pour pasta in baking dish; pour rest of sauce on top of pasta.
- Add in mustrooms and peas.
-Top with mozzarella cheese.
-Bake until cheese is melted, slightly brown and bubbly. About 20 minutes.

If you want to make and bake later. Add all ingredients to pan put foil on top and freeze until ready to make.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cook for 50 minutes, remove foil, cook for another 10 minutes.  Then serve

Lasagna

Lasagna

Ingredients:

1 lb ground beef

1 medium onion chopped

1 tsp garlic powder

1/4 tsp parsley

1/4 tsp basil

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 tsp oregano

1 box of lasagna noodles

1 small container of cottage cheese

1/2 cup grated pamasian cheese

1 package of shredded mozerella cheese

1 can of sliced mushrooms

1 jar of pasta sauce

Directions:

- Preheat over to 350 degress

- In a large skillet brown ground beef.

- In a large pasta pan cook lasagna noodles per directions on the box for al dente.

- Add onion, garlic, parsley, basil, salt, and oregano to the ground beef.

- In a large baking dish, add thin layer of pasta sauce. Add a layer of lasagna noodle, cottage cheese, mozerella cheese and mushrooms and some more sauce.

- Continue layers until all out of noodles.

- Lastly put more sauce on top. Sprinkle top with parmasian cheese.

- Bake for 45 minutes.

- Let stand for 15 minutes then serve.

Parmigiano Chicken Pasta

Parmigiano Chicken Pasta

Ingredients:

1 lb Penne Pasta

2 Tbsp Evoo

1 pound of chicken cut up

1 Tbsp minced onion

1 cup shredded Parmigiano cheese

Directions:

- Cook pasta per directions on box until al dente

- In a large skillet over medium heat, add evoo. Add bite size pieces of chicken.

- Cook until chicken is thoroughly cooked.

- Add minced onion. cook another minute.

- Mix pasta, chicken and cheese.

- Serve.

Cheeseburger Macaroni

Cheeseburger Macaroni

Ingredients:

2 tbsp EVOO

1 pound ground beef

1 Tbsp minced onion

1 Tbsp chili powder

1/2 cup ketcup

1 Tbsp mustard

1 cup beef stock

1 pound macaroni

1 bag sharp cheddar cheese

Directions:

- Cook macaroni per directions on box.

- In a large skillet heat add evoo over medium heat. Brown ground beef.

- Add minced onion, chili powder, ketcup, mustard, beef stock. Bring to a boil.

- Reduce heat and simmer until sauce thickens slightly.

- Add macaroni to baking dish.

- Add meat mixture.

- Top with cheese.

- You can now place in fridge until ready to cook.

- Preheat over to 400.

- Bake for 20 minutes.

- Serve.

Baked Ziti

I can't take credit for this one at all. Gia over at A Life in Progress posted this on her blog back in September. It caught my eye then and I just had to try it. It was so good. My husband even went back for seconds. This will be on our rotation. It is quick, easy, and cheap. I had made the pasta put it all together in the baking dish and set it in the fridge until I got home from work and then threw it in the oven.

Baked Ziti

Ingredients:
1 lb ziti or penne pasta (you could also use rotini; basically whatever you have on hand)
8 oz. ricotta
1 egg
3 C tomato sauce
2 C mozzarella cheese

Directions:
-Preheat oven to 350
-Boil pasta until al dente; drain
-Mix half of the ricotta and egg substitute in a small bowl. Add remaining ricotta to warm pasta and mix. Then add egg/ricotta mixture to pasta and combine well.
-Add about 1/2-1 C sauce on bottom of 9x13 baking dish and spread to cover bottom. Mix 2 C sauce with pasta mixture and pour pasta in baking dish; pour rest of sauce on top of pasta. Top with mozzarella cheese.
-Bake until cheese is melted, slightly brown and bubbly. About 20 minutes.