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Baked Spaghetti

Oct 29, 2014

Some days I wonder if anyone reads my blog posts. I often find myself on other photographer’s blogs just scrolling through the images and not really reading the actual post. I’m not sure why either — they all have fantastic, well written content, but I think that I just follow so many that if I was actually to read them all I wouldn’t have time for anything else! So based on how I choose to peruse blogs, I curiously think to myself if that’s what others do as well, saying, “let’s be honest, that’s what they are here for: the images, not the narrative!”

Lately I’ve come to realize that if that idea held true, I could just post up images in a Facebook gallery and call it a day. I am lucky, however, that that isn’t the sole purpose of why people are here. Instead they are taking time out of their day to visit MY blog, so whether it be for images or content or just to glance over everything, they still care and want to see/hear what I have to say… and once I realized that, it was quite humbling. It’s easy to get frustrated when you see only 5 people read a particular post; you spend hours carefully writing your text, culling & editing your images, and formatting the post for what feels like little pay off. But here is the secret: those 5 people are gold because they are YOUR people! They are here for you and will tell others about you so that maybe tomorrow 6 people will check out your post. Or maybe not. All that matters is that if even one person thinks your work is worth it, you are doing something positive.

So I’m not really sure where I am going with all this except to say that I am incredibly grateful for each and every person that takes the time out of their day to read these little posts. Or to look at my images. Or to even just “Like” my Facebook page. Your support is what keeps me going, so thank you!

Back to our regularly scheduled programing: On with the recipe…

Baked Spaghetti

Recipe By: The Plain Chicken

Ingredients

16 oz thin spaghetti
1 lb italian sausage or hamburger, cooked
24 oz jar spaghetti sauce
2 eggs
1/3 cup parmesan
5 tbsp butter melted
15 oz ricotta
3 tbsp parsley
1/4 cup sour cream
4 cups mozzarella cheese

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cook spaghetti according to the directions on the box. While that is cooking, combine ricotta, parsley and sour cream and set aside for later. Also, in a separate bowl, combine spaghetti sauce and cooked sausage/hamburger.

Whisk together eggs, parmesan cheese and melted butter. Toss with pasta after draining and then set aside for later.

Spray a 9×13 pan or glass dish with cooking spray. Begin by layering half of pasta mixture, half of ricotta cheese mixture, half of meat sauce and half of mozzarella. Repeat layers a second time. Cover the dish with aluminum foil and bake for 35 minutes. Remove foil and bake an additional 10 minutes so the cheese can get gooey and bubbly.

 

 

 
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