Manicotti is a pasta dish with a ricotta cheese filing inside noodles and spaghetti sauce covering the noodles. There are many different ways to make the filling like mixing the ricotta cheese with mushrooms, spinach, or meat. The type of filling depends on your family’s preference; my family prefers ricotta cheese mixed with mushrooms. This dish is simple enough to make, but has one very tedious step. The filling that you mix up must be put into each shell by hand. This may not sound like a big deal, but after getting enough pasta goo on your hands, it becomes quite difficult to keep the noodle open wide enough to be stuffed.
Seeing as I usually have a few minor inconveniences occur while I am cooking, I’m pleased to say that my latest cooking session went off without a hitch. The manicotti dish turned out “fabulous” according to Teagen. After Lisa said she could smell the food all the way down the hall, Eric walked in at lunch saying, “give me some”. Allie even came back for seconds today.
Hearing the reactions of my classmates reminded me why I love to cook. However, making food for only my classmates has left my family feeling neglected. After realizing how much I enjoyed making this dish, I’ll have to make it again sometime soon for my neglected family.
I loved the manicotti! I can relate to your family as well, our family likes to make this dish on a cold winter day. In your actual blog I thought it was interesting how you talked about how you actually made the dish and the difficulties of making it. I also found it humorous you mentioned your family was feeling neglected. Good job!
ReplyDeleteI remember the first time I ever had manicotti was at your house in like 7th grade! I loved it so much I had my mom make it for my birthday dinner on my next birthday. Having it on Monday brought back all those memories and I realised I like it just as much now as I did back then and even ask my mom to make it for us at home soon! The dish was AMAZING!!!
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