Hybrid 3 Cheese Mostaccioli Bake with Vegetarian Portion and Turkey Portion

Season 4, Episode 27: Hybrid 3 Cheese Mostaccioli Bake with Vegetarian Portion and Turkey Portion and family update about the high school marching band day at the U of M Gophers game! This recipe is very tasty and can be modified easily, in fact I created three different sections to meet everyone's wants and desires! And it was just one recipe to make one dish! Ditch being a short order cook and cook in a hybrid spilt table way! #splittablerecipe #hybridrecipe #recipe #familydinner #vegetarian #food #foodpodcast #recipepodcast How to cook for a vegetarian and meat eaters within the same dish. Ingrdients: • 16 oz Mostaccioli Pasta • 1/4 c. butter plus 1 Tbsp • 1/4 c. flour • 4 c. skim milk • 1/2 c. half and half • 1 Tbsp fresh basil leaves, chopped • 1 tsp salt • 1/4 tsp black pepper • 2 c. shredded sharp cheddar cheese, divided • 1/2 c. grated Parmesan cheese • 2 c. shredded Swiss cheese • 1/4 c. finely chopped onion • 1 large container white mushrooms, sliced • 1 package frozen turkey meatballs Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 2. Cook pasta to Al dente, drain. 3. Cook meatballs according the instructions on the package. 4. Saute onions and mushrooms in 1 Tbsp butter, starting with the onions first, then after a few minutes add the mushrooms. 5. Melt 1/4 c. butter in a large saucepan. 6. Stir in flour, basil, salt and pepper. 7. Gradually stir in the milk and the half and half while stirring the whole time and heating over medium heat. Continue to stir until the sauce thickens and it bubbles while stirring. 8. Reduce heat to low, or remove it from the heat, and add 1 c. cheddar cheese and all of the Parmesan cheese. Stir until the cheeses melt. 9. Stir in cooked pasta, stir well with a large spoon to coat all the pasta in the cheese sauce. 10. Spray a 9x13 inch glass baking dish with olive oil cooking spray. 11. Add half othe pasta to the dish making sure it's even across the bottom of the pan. 12. Sprinkle the Swiss cheese across the top evenly. 13. Add mushrooms and onions, distribtue as desired across the pan. 14. Add cooked meatballs to desired meat portions of the dish, keeping one area vegetarian. Pay attention to which side is meatless and which contains meat so you remember when serving. 15. Top with the remaining pasta, attempting to enure the meatballs are covered so they don't dry out. 16. Spray tin foil with cooking spray and cover the dish tightly. 17. Bake for 25 minutes. Remove when bubbling. 18. Uncover and sprinkled the remaining cheddar cheese evenly across the dish. Put it back in the oven and bake it for about another 5 minutes until the cheese is melted. 19. Let cool slightly and serve. Enjoy! Books! My hardcover cookbook is $3.00 off. Get the book: One Dish Two Diets Split Table Recipes Cookbook, it's also on Kindle Unlimited https://storyoriginapp.com/universalb... My YA contemporary romance book Cabin Crew https://storyoriginapp.com/universalb... Book Warm Up My Heart now in presale! Get it here: https://storyoriginapp.com/universalb... Happy eating! Take care, Julie #recipes #vegetariancooking #vegetarianrecipes #sauce #mustardsauce #cooking Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jahoag153) Visit my website: https://www.juliehoagwriter.com/ Music by Young Presidents, "So Excited". Copyright Julie A. Hoag Julie Hoag Writer LLC 2022-2026 Try Lume deodorant, it's my fave! It changed my life and saved my skin! Affiliate link: https://lumedeodorant.sjv.io/NG6zq7