{"id":2447,"date":"2025-02-06T13:43:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T13:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breckas.com\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2025-02-06T13:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T13:43:19","slug":"homemade-stuff-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breckas.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/homemade-stuff-shells\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Stuff Shells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.25rem;\">Ingredients<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00bd pound jumbo pasta shells<\/p>\n<p>2 tablespoon olive oil<\/p>\n<p>1 onion \u2013 finely chopped<\/p>\n<p>use very generously salt and pepper<\/p>\n<p>3 cloves garlic \u2013 minced<\/p>\n<p>1 pound ground beef<\/p>\n<p>2 tablespoon italian herbs<\/p>\n<p>2 cups spaghetti sauce<\/p>\n<p>2 cups ricotta \u2013 or cottage cheese<\/p>\n<p>1 cup mozzarella \u2013 shredded plus more for topping<\/p>\n<p>\u00bd cup parmesan cheese \u2013 grated plus more for topping<\/p>\n<p>1 egg \u2013 beaten<\/p>\n<p>Instructions<br \/>\nPreheat oven to 350 F (175 C).<\/p>\n<p>Cook the pasta in boiling water for about 1 minute less than the package suggests. Drain and run cool water over the shells. (to keep the shells from sticking together, I added about 1 tablespoon olive oil to the water, and stirred them gently often.)<\/p>\n<p>While the pasta is cooking, heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the onion, generously add salt and pepper and saut\u00e9 until softened \u2013 about 4 \u2013 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for another minute or two.<\/p>\n<p>Add the beef and cook until browned, breaking it up as it cooks. When the beef is almost cooked through, sprinkle the Italian herbs over it and stir in about 1 cup of the spaghetti sauce, then remove from heat.<\/p>\n<p>In a small bowl, combine the ricotta, mozzarella, parmesan and egg \u2013 mix together well, then mix into the beef mixture.<\/p>\n<p>Grease a 9\u2033 x13\u2033 baking dish and spread the remaining sauce evenly in the bottom. Spoon the filling carefully into each shell and arrange them on the sauce, then sprinkle with additional mozzarella and parmesan cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Bake for about 25 \u2013 30 minutes, or until heated through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients \u00bd pound jumbo pasta shells 2 tablespoon olive oil 1 onion \u2013 finely chopped use very generously salt and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Homemade Stuff Shells - Grandma Baking Recipes","description":"Ingredients \u00bd pound jumbo pasta shells 2 tablespoon olive oil 1 onion \u2013 finely chopped use very generously salt and pepper 3 cloves garlic \u2013 minced 1 pound grou"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/breckas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/breckas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/breckas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breckas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breckas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/breckas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449,"href":"https:\/\/breckas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/2449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breckas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/breckas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breckas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breckas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}