I know, I know. This recipe sounds like something you would find in a boring church cookbook. Beef, cheese and pasta, all baked together in one nice, artery-clogging casserole dish.

Or maybe something you might have eaten in college on the way home from a party at 3am, from the hot bar at the local 7-11. Not that I would know, since when I was in college I spent my entire weekends, you know, studying. More truthfully, I went to college in Pennsylvania and we didn’t actually have a 7-11. We did, however, have a bagel shop that stayed open until the wee hours and if you are reading this and you went to college with me then stop what you’re doing right now and make yourself a veggie melt on a blueberry bagel.

I digress.

This pasta dish? It might sound lowbrow but it’s really, really good. I ate it for dinner four days in a row and I still think it’s good. I will admit that by Day 4 I was getting a little sick of looking at it, but I wasn’t sick of eating it, that’s for sure . [click to continue…]

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