Hello from TINA
KASHIAN! Winter is here and I enjoy comfort food. Growing up, beefaroni was on one
of my favorite dishes. Now that I’m a mother, I’m always looking for different
ways to use ground beef. I enjoy meatballs like most people, but I was searching
for something different. I found this dish on online at “allrecipes” and
modified it. You can use any package of pasta you have in your cupboard. I had
pinwheels and it added to the fun of the dish. It’s not difficult to make and is good as a leftover dish.
Ingredients:
1 pound ground beef
2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
1 24-ounce jar of marinara sauce
1 16-ounce package pasta (anything you have on hand)
Salt and pepper to taste
You can use elbow macaroni or any fun pasta that you have in your cupboard.
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Cook the ground beef in a large skillet over med-high heat until evenly browned. Drain the fat.
While the ground beef is cooking, bring a large pot of water to boil. Add pasta and cook until tender. Transfer to a large casserole dish and add the cooked ground beef, marinara sauce, and Cheddar cheese. Bake for thirty minutes until hot and bubbly.
Add salt and pepper to taste. Enjoy!
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Sounds good. Wonder if my picky 5 year old granddaughter would eat it? She tends to be a "meat over here, pasta over there, hold the sauce" type.
ReplyDeleteI note you call for 16 oz. of pasta. Check the box you choose carefully. Many are less than that.
Hi Libby! My girls used to be picky like this, too. They would separate everything on their plate, even put meat on a different plate. Thankfully, they outgrew this phase. You can try to see if your granddaughter would like it. The dish is kid friendly and you don't have to include as much meat. That might help, too.
ReplyDeleteSorry so late responding...our electricity/internet went out for over 2 hours, while in the middle of doing laundry and peeking at blogs...then lost my train of thought. (what's left of it, hah!)I re-discovered beefaroni on a long-defunct-now original epicurious recipe swap & chat room in the early 2000s and whole family loves it, which says a lot, since Mom was a great NOLA-Sicilian cook. Always make it slightly different, sometimes even on stovetop and just cover w/lid to melt more cheese on top! Here's a version I found of Olga's recipe for it, and I also riff on it (often simpler):https://www.spiceplace.com/forums/Recipes/Main-Dishes/the_absolute_best_ever_~_~_creamy_baked_beefaroni.php
ReplyDeleteOur favorite comfort food is chili dogs with homemade chili. It's what we have when the first cold front blows through our area. My version of beefaroni was a favorite of our girls when they were growing up.
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