My Favorite Meal

Tuesday night I finally made Mostacholi!  This is one of my absolute favorite meals, and it's so easy to make.  Of course I forgot to take a photo until after I had served it, but you get the idea.  :)  Sorry it looks kind of gross.  I promise it tastes good!

Mostacholi

Recipe courtesy of my mother  :)

Ingredients:

• 1 lb ground beef
• 1/2 box of mostacholi/penne noodles
• 26 oz jar of spaghetti sauce (I use Prego)
• 1 cup (?) mozzarella cheese

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Cook pasta as directed on box and drain.
3. While the pasta is cooking, brown ground beef and drain.  Add the entire jar of sauce to the beef and simmer while the noodles finish cooking.
4. Mix pasta and sauce mixer together in an oven safe dish.  Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese and bake for 30 minutes.

That's it!  We usually have a ton left over when it's just Ryan and me eating, so I only made half the recipe this time.  I made the sauce for a whole recipe, but froze half of it to use the next time we have this for dinner.  I only used a quarter of a box of pasta and used a smaller dish.

Tonight I will leave you with this:

The largest grape I have ever seen!  It was bigger than my thumb!!!

Super Simple Chicken Alfredo

I made this recipe up all by myself!  Seriously though, it's nothing really to be proud of.  A monkey probably could have put it together, but the important part is that we enjoy it! 

Chicken Alfredo

Ingredients:

• 1/2 box of pasta (whatever kind you'd like.  I've used bow-tie and penne.)
• Jar of alfredo sauce (I use Ragu)
• 1/2 bag of frozen broccoli
• 1 can canned chicken, drained

Directions:

1. Prepare pasta as directed on box. 
2. While you're making the pasta, defrost the broccoli and then mix with pasta sauce and chicken.  Heat well. 
3. Drain pasta and mix with sauce. 
4. Serve.  :)

  

That's it!  I told you it was super easy.  :)  You could probably make it a little fancier with some mushrooms or sun-dried tomatoes, but all I had on hand was broccoli.  Oh, and some garlic bread would be good too!  I made this on Saturday for just me and Ryan.  We had no leftovers.  I'd say that's a successful meal!