{"id":1806,"date":"2018-11-08T17:35:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T17:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/peer-jacks\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2018-11-08T17:35:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T17:35:40","slug":"recipe-of-the-week-easy-peasy-pasta-bake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/peer-jacks\/recipe-of-the-week-easy-peasy-pasta-bake\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe of the Week: Easy Peasy Pasta Bake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019re like me eating pasta can get very boring, but pasta is so cheap that it\u2019s hard not to eat it all the time. This recipe will help you get out of a pasta rut and look like you can make more than just spaghetti. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ingredients:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rigatoni Pasta (you could also use penne, shells, or ziti)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pasta Sauce<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mozzarella <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grated Parmesan <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steps:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cook the pasta in boiling salted water. Cook a few minutes less than what the box says because it will finish cooking in the oven.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Preheat the oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drain the pasta and add back into the pot. Add in the sauce. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cut up about \u00bd cups worth of Mozzarella into small cubes. Grate \u00bc cup of Parmesan cheese. Add both into the pasta, stir. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Add the pasta to a baking dish and add more cheese on the top.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bake until the cheese is melted and bubbly. This takes about 5-10 minutes, but keep an eye on it. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Serve and Enjoy!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This dish is super easy to make and it makes pasta night a little bit more fun. I hope you enjoy making this dish, and If you want it to be extra cheese you can add in ricotta cheese. You can make this for a big crowd or for just one person. Keep on cooking.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- shortcode-block-quote -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-block-quote shortcode-block-quote--right\">\n    <div class=\"shortcode-block-quote__inner-container\">\n        <span>Ellen N.<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re like me eating pasta can get very boring, but pasta is so cheap that it\u2019s hard not to eat it all the time. This recipe will help you get out of a pasta rut and look like you can make more than just spaghetti. Ingredients: Rigatoni Pasta (you could also use penne, shells, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[382,4,271,381,186,210,270,7,383,9,10,384,211,98,385],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipe-of-the-week","tag-bake","tag-blog","tag-cheap","tag-cheese","tag-college","tag-cooking","tag-easy","tag-mentor-blog-post","tag-mozzarella","tag-nau","tag-northern-arizona-university","tag-parmesan","tag-pasta","tag-peerjacks","tag-sauce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/peer-jacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/peer-jacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/peer-jacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/peer-jacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/peer-jacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/peer-jacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/peer-jacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/peer-jacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/peer-jacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}