Thursday, December 11, 2008

It's a Keeper!

Roasted Veggie Pasta

We had this wonderful pasta dish this evening for supper. It was delicious! Adam had two big helpings of it. It doesn't have any meat in it; I wasn't sure how Kurt and Adam would react to a meatless meal. I picked up two ham steaks at Wegman's earlier today in case they really wanted some sort of meat with it, but I showed Kurt the casserole and he said he was fine just eating the pasta. I served it with a tossed salad and bread from Wegman's.

Cut up veggies

Ingredients

Veggies on pans about ready to go into oven for roasting

Everything mixed together and ready for final baking

4 small zucchini, halved lengthwise and cut into 1-inch slices
2 large onions, cut into wedges
2 medium yellow summer squash, halved lengthwise and cut into 1-inch slices
2 large sweet yellow peppers, cut into 1-inch pieces
1 cup fresh baby carrots, halved lengthwise
2 tablespoons Crisco® Extra Virgin Olive Oil
3-1/2 cups uncooked fusilli pasta
2 cups (8 ounces) shredded fontina cheese
1-1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup canned diced tomatoes in sauce
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese, divided
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Directions:
In a large bowl, combine the first six ingredients. Transfer to two greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pans. Bake at 450° for 20-25 minutes or until crisp-tender; set aside. Reduce heat to 350°.
Cook pasta according to package directions; drain. Add the fontina cheese, cream, tomatoes, 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, garlic, salt and pepper. Stir in vegetable mixture.
Transfer to a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish (dish will be full). Sprinkle with remaining Parmesan cheese. Bake, uncovered, for 25-30 minutes or until bubbly. Yield: 16 servings (3/4 cup each).



I found this banana sour cream cake recipe in the Kraft Food and Family magazine. It was really easy to make and tastes good besides!!



The recipe calls for cutting the cake in half and making it a double layer cake, I opted to just leave it in the pan and put the icing on the whole cake.

5 comments:

Jamie said...

the cake was deeeeeeeelish! thanks!

Karen Petersen Pasquel said...

The veggie dish looks awesome! Since I'm a vegetarian and always looking for new ideas, I'll have to try this.

Michele said...

You know, Jamie, that cheese was not prepared at Wegman's. If you blow up the picture with the ingredients, it says where it was packaged and what the ingredients are. Not sure if it would work for you or not....just saying....

Anonymous said...

that looks really good and you need to make it when i come home!

sajmom said...

Both look great-I like how you post it too-always the ingredients listed & pictured and instructions for how to prepare.