Still cooking.
Still snowed in.
For five days now.
And apparently I'm not too motivated to blog this week. Or last. :)
But I am going to break the dry spell. And at least try to look productive.
I have seen a recipe like this all over Pinterest, so I decided it was time to try it. I mean, it is pasta and cheese. How can I go wrong?
What I liked about this recipe (other than the pasta and cheese and creamy taste) is that it was easy.
And I like easy so much.
Even on snow days.
Ingredients:
1 pound spaghetti, cooked and drained
1 pound ground beef, browned (or in our case, 1 1/2 pounds)
1 jar spaghetti sauce (or homemade sauce in our case)
8 oz cream cheese, room temperature (that part is important...mine wasn't quite room temperature)
8 oz sour cream
8 oz cottage cheese (I omitted this part...it was just too much for me)
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Directions:
Pre-heat oven to 350.
Mix meat and sauce together.
Mix the cream cheese and sour cream (and cottage cheese if desired) together. I would recommend using a mixer for this. By hand, it is hard to mix it well.
Layer in a 9 x 13:
spaghetti (1/2)
cream cheese mixture (1/2)
meat mixture (1/2)
spaghetti (1/2)
cream cheese mixture (1/2)
meat mixture (1/2)
Top with shredded cheese.
Bake for 20-30 minutes.
Enjoy!
It makes a LOT.
We ate ours with Rhodes bread (garlic salt/butter on top) and corn. A salad would have been nice but I didn't have any on hand.
Happy Cooking!
Reba
