Baked Pasta with Spicy Italian Sausage - tuck in fast!

This will be a short post because I need to eat this baked item while it's warm and still has the mooey gooey texture of cheese. Well, when melting cheese hardens....this dish just loses its appeal. Ruth, pardon me for making a short one to Presto Pasta Night, in terms of writing and cooking too - since it seems like a lil' "makeover dish" for me.



Makeover...because you can make Spicy Italian Sausage Pasta and warm(bake) it lasagna-style with that addition of melting cheese.

Baked Pasta with Spicy Italian Sausage
Ingredients:
-1/2lb pasta, cooked according to instructions
-~4 cooked italian chicken sausages, cubed and cooked
-handfuls of baby spinach
-2cups marinara sauce, adjust amount accordingly while cooking
-red chilli pepper flakes, to taste
-black pepper, to taste
- mozzarella cheese or other melting cheese

Method:
1.Mix the cooked pasta, cooked sausage, spinach and rest of ingredients.
2.Add in some melting cheese, mix well and put in preheated oven for the cheese to melt.

The cheese just binds everything together...

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14 comments:

  1. KellytheCulinarian9/27/07, 11:38 AM

    What tasty-looking comfort food.

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  2. Nora B.9/27/07, 6:02 PM

    looks good to me!

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  3. Anh9/27/07, 6:07 PM

    Yum! Who doesn't want to eat this? :D

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  4. Anonymous9/27/07, 6:45 PM

    Just wondering yah? Imagine if you could stuff cheese in each and everyone of 'em pastas..woah...it would be lovely..but health just totally go downward...~snigger~

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  5. Ming the Merciless9/27/07, 9:44 PM

    I've been eating a lot of pasta lately. I think I was craving carbs because I haven't been eating much of it for a couple of weeks.

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  6. Anonymous9/27/07, 11:05 PM

    kelly, good option for the cooler weather

    nora b., ha! Maybe you are just hungry this moment?

    anh, I don't know :D

    jason ho, oh yes...there are stuffed pasta shells dishes. But maybe have to use rigatoni shells.
    I thought the calcium in cheese can strengthen the bones :O LOL!

    ming, pasta is a easy option for me when I don't feel like cooking.

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  7. Ruth Daniels9/28/07, 9:59 AM

    What can I say...it's my favorite comfort dish! Thanks for sharing with Presto Pasta Nights.

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  8. Katie Zeller9/28/07, 12:34 PM

    Ouch! Don't you hate it when you burn the roof of your mouth with hot cheese? Oh, I wasn't supposed to tuck in that fast? Sorry! It just looked so good...

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  9. Anonymous9/28/07, 3:02 PM

    ruth, you are welcome. Always my pleasure. :)

    katiez, hahahh! woooooo...yes...tuck in fast and don't burn your tongue :P

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  10. Anonymous9/28/07, 6:57 PM

    Oh, I love pasta.

    Question (a rather stupid one), where do you get marinara sauce? I think the closest I can get in Singapore is some white cheese source.

    And ... how high the temperature you set for the cheese to melt? Yes see, I seldom make any non-Chinese dishes but I do love pasta.

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  11. Big Boys Oven9/29/07, 8:22 AM

    looks so yummy......yummy!

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  12. Little Corner of Mine9/29/07, 11:48 AM

    Wow, this looks so yummy!

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  13. Anonymous10/1/07, 2:16 PM

    wilfrid, I think you can get marinara sauce everywhere. Most of Prego's tomato-based pasta sauce can be used.
    Of course, you can make your own using canned tomatoes, garlic, onion, and basil. Common cheeses like Mozzerella melts under applied temperature.
    I don't have an exact temperature but I think 140deg C or higher should do.

    big boys oven, little corner, who can resist melting cheese ?

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  14. test it comm10/1/07, 6:37 PM

    Sounds good. Nice and spicy and cheesy.

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