Family Mode Italian Penne Bake

When my children were little, I tried to “invent” recipes but I was non really proficient at it. One recipe that is embarrassing to acknowledge was a combination of evidently Lycopersicon esculentum sauce, solid soil beef together with Italian seasonings (cooked for most 20 minutes) together with therefore mixed into elbow macaroni; that was it…not fifty-fifty whatsoever cheese! It was horrid past times today’s standards, but the kids ever ate a lot of it together with I did non know whatsoever better. Hey…that was 30+ years ago! I convey learned a few cooking tricks since then.

Today’s household unit of measurement mode penne bake is i of our favorites these days. It is rich, filling, really satisfying together with leftovers reheat extremely good on twenty-four hours two. Served amongst a veggie, salad together with dinner rolls, it is proficient plenty for company.

One recipe that is embarrassing to acknowledge was a combination of evidently Lycopersicon esculentum sauce FAMILY STYLE ITALIAN PENNE BAKE

1 pound extra thin solid soil beef
1 loving cup onion chopped
1 loving cup celery chopped
1 loving cup chopped carrot
1 to 2 cloves garlic minced
1 fifteen ounce tin Lycopersicon esculentum sauce
1 12 ounce tin Lycopersicon esculentum paste
4 cups water
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon dry out oregano
2 teaspoons dry out sugariness basil
½ teaspoon fennel seed
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 pound Barilla mini-penne pasta
1 pound Monterey Jack cheese (grated)
1 tablespoon butter

In large pan, sauté solid soil beef until no longer pinkish (drain well). Return meat to pan together with add together onion, celery, carrot together with garlic; sauté until veggies showtime to wilt. Add Lycopersicon esculentum sauce together with Lycopersicon esculentum paste, 4 cups of water, tabular array salt together with pepper, oregano, basil, fennel seed together with sugar. Mix good together with SIMMER 2 hours (stirring occasionally). What you lot desire is for the sauce to trim down to a prissy thick consistency (do non add together whatsoever extra water).
After sauce has cooked down, boil the mini-penne (using directions on penne box) together with drain. Stir inwards a tablespoon of butter to coat pasta, therefore stir inwards sauce together with one-half of the (grated) cheese into a greased ix x xiii baking dish. Top amongst other one-half of cheese together with bake at 350° for most thirty minutes or until bubbly together with cheese has browned a little, similar this:

NOTE: Once you lot acquire this sauce to the simmering stage, you lot tin pose it inwards the crock pot together with allow it educate inwards in that place all day. If you lot create that…just prop the lid opened upwards merely a little, therefore the sauce tin trim down together with thicken.