Article: BAKED PASTA SHELLING IT OUT

Hearty baked pastas have joined a group of country dishes -- polentas, potatoes, beans, and fritters -- that are beginning to show up on dressy restaurant tables. Sometimes they're offered as main courses or as accompaniments to simple chicken or meat dishes. More often, because they're rich, baked pastas might be split among the dinner guests as a prelude to the meal. Here are several of these dishes, all made with dried pasta: a mixture of shells in a blue cheese sauce with ham, vermicelli with red potatoes and Fontina cheese, and stuffed shells with a light tomato sauce. (Recipes follow.) Many of the double-carbohydrate dishes -- the famous Italian pasta and beans, for example -- ...

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