Ground Beef Stuffed Shells

Life looks so different for me now than it did even two months ago. Work has consumed my days instead of checking my thousands of emails and entering giveaways all day ;) Last night I also had my Uncle's wedding reception which was so amazing and beautiful. I love him and his wife so much. 

Next week is Thanksgiving and the following week is my birthday weekend. The week after that is my son's birthday and my nieces birthday and my cousins birthday and Christmas...and....*deep breath*...so much. I am also going back to Utah the end of December which I'm SO excited about! I'm going to be surprising my nieces and nephew and I'm taking Jace with me so I can't wait! 

Thank goodness for weekends. Jace is at his Nana's until five days so I have time to write blogs and work on tumblers :) Also, it is so nice to have a weekend of just doing nothing. 

Anyways, I still manage to cook almost everyday so this recipe was no exception. The problem is just finding the time to blog! I made this recipe about a week and a half ago. This recipe was for Stuffed Shells and we added Ground Beef because we need some sort of meat in the shells. This recipe is from NW Kidney and can be found HERE. 

Ingredients:
1 package of large shell pasta
2 cups Ricotta cheese
2 eggs
1 bunch baby spinach
1/2 container of basil
One large bottle of tomato sauce (preferably low sodium if possible)
Parmesan Cheese

Directions:
Cook large pasta shells for 4-5 minutes in boiling water. Rinse pasta in cold water. 

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Meanwhile, put the baby spinach in the microwave for 1-2 minutes. I learned the hard way that even though it was only 1 minute, my fingers burned so please use an oven mitt ;) In a bowl, mix ricotta, cooked spinach, basil and eggs. 

Using a spoon, fill the shells with the ricotta mix. Put 1/2 of the sauce on the bottom of a casserole dish, set the shells on top. 

Drizzle the top with remaining sauce, sprinkle with parmesan cheese and bake uncovered for 30 minutes. Serve with green beans. Even though this has spinach in it, Jace LOVED it. I wasn't going to put spinach in it but it definitely made it taste better! 





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