Baked Rigatoni Cake

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MARTHA STEWART’S Baked Rigatoni Cake - A Stuffed Pasta Dish

Recipe By: Martha Stewart

Salt, to pasta cooking water
1 pound rigatoni, cooked as directed - SLIGHTLY underdone
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 pound ground beef
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper, or to taste
1 28-oz can crushed tomatoes
butter, for pan
1 cup Parmesan cheese, finely grated
8 ounces mozzarella cheese, coarsely grated

Preheat oven to 400°. Bring a large pot of water to a boil; add salt. Add pasta; cook until slightly underdone. Drain, rinse in cold water, and drain. Toss pasta with 1 tablespoon oil to coat. Set aside.

Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add meat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until browned, about 10 minutes. Add garlic, 1 teaspoon salt, and pepper. Cook 2 minutes more. Add tomatoes; simmer until thickened, about 20 minutes.

Butter a 9-inch springform pan. Toss pasta with Parmesan cheese. Tightly pack pasta into pan, standing each piece ON END
Spread 2 cups meat sauce on top of pasta, pushing it into holes.

Bake 15 minutes. Sprinkle mozzarella on top. Bake until cheese is pale golden, 10 to 15 minutes more.

Remove from oven, and let stand 15 minutes. Run a knife around edge to loosen; unmold. Cut into wedges. Serve with remaining sauce.

Description:

“Cooked rigatoni are placed in a spring form pan on end then the sauce is forced into the pasta. Baked for 15” then topped with mozzarella and baked 10 - 15 minutes longer."

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This looks and sounds absolutely delish! I can’t wait to try it! :smiley:

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Oh my goodness! As I was reading this recipe, I read how you put each rigatoni on end…I thought NO WAY! But when I saw the picture, I thought that is DEFINITELY worth the time! I definitely will be trying this on my pasta-loving sons! Thank You!

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You are very welcome! Isn’t it the neatest idea? I think your sons will love it!

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“Bumping” for the newbies to see

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Ingredients

glucose biscuits 4 packs
drinking chocolate 400 gms
cocoa powder 200 gms
coffee powder 50 gms
dry coconut powder 200 gms
sugar as per taste

Method

Make some coffee solution Put some coffee in water and mix well
Dip the glucose biscuits in a coffee solution and arrange it in a layer in a tray Now mix cocoa powder and drinking chocolate 1: 2 .
Add sugar to taste and form a paste with water Now spread this paste on the layer of biscuits Sprinkle coconut powder on it Now again form a layer of biscuits by dipping them in sugar over this chocolate covered layer
And repeat the same steps Add up to 4 or 5 layers of biscuits
Then completely cover it with chocolate paste and garnish completely with coconut powder Keep it in freezer for an hour .The choco frozen cake is ready.

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Thanks for the recipe. I think this is a great idea.

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I remember you seansmom from that “other” board.

I am flattered you posted MY notes and MY photos of this recipe, but think you should have given me credit. I don’t mind re-posting recipes (that’s what it’s all about), but when I go through the time to take pics, type out my notes and then someone comes along and posts them as theirs, well that is wrong.

It should read – Notes and photos by Bean –

“Let me start to say what a fun and tasty recipe this is. It is not hard to make at all. I did add some flavor to the meat sauce, red wine (1 cup), Italian seasoning, crused red pepper, extra garlic and parmesan cheese. As for stuffing the noodles, I just used the back of a spoon and went back and forth until it went down the noodles. Easy and it didn’t matter if every noodle was full because you have extra sauce for serving on the side. This will make an excellent company dish.”

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I used your pics because mine didn’t turn out as pretty as yours. Sorry for not giving you credit, for the pics, but hey the recipe is Martha Stewarts, not yours. The notes were helpful to me and to anyone that decides to make the recipe, so thats why I left them.

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I NEVER said the recipe was mine. But give credit to the person who did the work (notes and pics). You posted my notes & pics as if they were yours, which they are not.

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Bite me!

I c % p without even realizing your “notes” were included in the recipe. Don’t get your panties up in a wad over this. Stress isn’t healthy

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…and how do we know that the “pic” and “notes” that she posted is truly hers?? She says that they are, but do any of us know this for sure? Noooooooooo! Its a big, wide web out there, and peebs do this all the time.
Oh, and I know this woman from “the other board” too!

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Kitchen Witch, thank you for your welcome.

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:rolleyes:

These ARE MY pics and MY notes! You darn well know they are too! I am not a liar!

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:stuck_out_tongue: you’re getting all stressed out again Bean~ go and get yourself a morning elixer:p

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Hey Bean, good to see you here! I just wanted to mention that I know for a fact they are her pics and notes.

Great pics Bean!!

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Hey there Shadow! Great to see you! Waving hi! :slight_smile:

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Waving hi back at ya! :slight_smile:

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morning brewsky buddies???