Article: Baked pasta: Easy to make, looks impressive

By HOWIE RUMBERG The Associated Press When I first started throwing dinner parties on next-to-nothing budgets and with kitchen skills to match, spaghetti with tomato sauce was my go-to main course. Cheap and easy. But if I'd had the courage to try new things, I'd have attempted a baked pasta - lasagna, manicotti or stuffed shells. Despite my past trepidation, I've learned these are easy to make, and look impressive on the plate. Manicotti is my favorite, mainly because the large, long pasta tubes stuffed with a ricotta cheese-based filling are delicious and easy to eat. They also lend themselves to variations, such as meat- or vegetable-based fillings. Manicotti can be purchased in the dry ...

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