Spinach and three-cheese stuffed shells from Half Baked Harvest Super Simple: More Than 125 Recipes for Instant, Overnight, Meal-Prepped, and Easy Comfort Foods (page 121) by Tieghan Gerard

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  • sophieca on November 23, 2024

    What is up with the quantities in this recipe?? I had waaay too much sauce compared to shells and only had enough cheese filling to fill half of my 1 lb box of shells. Also with so much sauce I had to transfer from a large 12-inch skillet to a 9x13 casserole dish to even put the shells in. I’m wondering if the 2x28oz cans is a typo?

  • chawkins on April 04, 2022

    As my box of shells was only 12 ounces, I scaled everything, but the spinach, down by .75. The box of frozen spinach was 10 ounces and I used the entire box, however you lost quite a bit of it when thawing and squeezing. The filling was very skimpy, each shell probably had no more than half a table spoon of filling. Overall, the dish was delicious, but next time I make this, i’ll Incorporate the sausage, the red bell pepper and the spinach into the filling, so the shells will be fuller and the eating easier.

  • jay.moe on February 25, 2022

    I could only find a 15 ounce container of ricotta cheese and apparently over stuffed the pasta, because I had a dozen shells left over when I ran out of the cheese mixture. There was so much sauce to pasta (probably because I overstuffed the shells!), next time I will only use one can of crushed tomatoes. I think I will try an Italian cheese blend instead of the Gouda, too. Although it was very easy to assemble the dish, it was time consuming, but worth it.

  • julesamomof2 on October 19, 2020

    We liked this quite a bit, and although I suppose it could be considered simple it was certainly time consuming to make. I did make several changes to the recipe as written. I could only find a 16 ounce package of frozen spinach, so I combined half with the cheese mixture which meant I ended up only using half the cheese ( a good thing imo). I also only used about 1/2 the mozzarella dotted on top. I try to avoid using 1/2 of something, like a container of ricotta, but in the case I felt the dish was a bit healthier with my changes.

  • southerncooker on December 17, 2019

    Daughter, son and I enjoyed this. I omitted the bell pepper since son isn't a fan. I used sweet Italian Turkey sausage and added a little more chili flakes. I could only find the large shells in 12 oz package and not a pound and the spinach in 10 oz not 8. I have a large basil plant in kitchen window that came in handy for this recipe. Since we're not fans of ricotta I used whole milk cottage cheese instead. I also didn't notice it called for 2 28 oz cans crushed tomatoes and only used 1 but the dish was plenty saucy. I'm happy Tieghan encourages to make her recipes your own to families tastes.

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