You may remember my lasagna post from back in the day…
Well, the other day, I decided to get experimental in the kitchen… I was pleased with the results so I wanted to share the recipe with you
Jumbo Shell Lasagna
Ingredients needed:
1 Package Jumbo Shells
1 lb. ground turkey
3 jars spaghetti sauce (I used Classico Italian Sausage)
1 Container Ricotta Cheese
1 Container Cottage Cheese
2 lbs Mozzarella Cheese
Preparation:
Preheat Oven to 350 Degrees
Cook the ground turkey
Grab 2 baking dishes.
Open 2 jars of spaghetti sauce and line the bottom of the baking dishes with spaghetti sauce.
Line the jumbo shells on the baking dishes on top of the spaghetti sauce
In a separate mixing bowl, combine ricotta and cottage cheese together. Stir.
Spoon ground turkey into the jumbo shells.
Then spoon the ricotta/cottage cheese mix into the shells.
Cover the pans with the mozzarella.
And layer with the last jar of spaghetti sauce.
Bake in the oven for 45 minutes.
And, of course, I couldn’t have made this fabulous dinner without making something for dessert.
So, I decided to get creative. A friend showed up to another friend’s house with a batch of cheesecake stuffed strawberries. And I have seen this recipe flutter around on Pinterest too, so I finally got the nerve to make them on my own.
For the cheesecake I used a recipe that I have been using for years. A recipe my mom taught me to make:
1 8 oz package cream cheese
1 16 oz container sour cream
1/4 cup sugar (or more, depending on the taste tests)
1 16 oz container cool whip
1 16 oz package strawberries
1 pie crust
Preparation:
Mix Cream Cheese and Sour Cream together in the mixing bowl. Add in Sugar. Continue to mix. Taste to see if more sugar is needed, add to desire taste.
Add in cool whip, blend.
Refrigerate for 1/2 an hour.
Core the strawberries (cut off the stem, and then take out the middle so there is a hole in the middle of the strawberry.
Fill strawberries with the cheesecake mixture.
The cheesecake mixture makes a lot, so I always make sure to have an extra pie crust around to fill up to make an actual cheesecake. I layered the cheesecake with strawberries and blueberries.
And voila, an amazing meal all because I was feeling a bit bored in the kitchen, and I needed to try something new.
That looks amazing!! Think you will have any leftovers still when you com over on Wednesday?? Lol
I’d love to taste test some of that! Looks so yummy!!!
No leftovers. We gobbled both pans up in two nights!! So, definitely a good meal when we gobbled it up two nights in a row =)
Thanks for sharing. I may just have to try these. I really like the spin on the lasagna with the jumbo shells; my son might just eat it. And I love the cheesecake stuffed strawberries, yum.
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Thanks Romina!
I usually don’t share too many recipes, but this spin was really good. We made 2 pans, and gobbled them up in 2 days… so definitely a good thing =)
What an interesting recipe! I never would have thought about using the jumbo shells. Creative and sounds yummy!!
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Lol, I don’t know what got in me but I thought of it and had to try it out. My so said he preferred it over the regular lasagna =)
What a good idea to use jumbo shells for lasagne! Your food pics look really good too – good job I’ve just had lunch
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Glad you saw it after lunch =)
This looks really good Jamie. I’m definitely going to try your lasagna recipe.
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Great recipes, Jamie! I had seen that strawberry cheesecake idea floating around Pinterest too. Glad to know it works so well. I’m going to have to try it!
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These look great and I love the lasagna idea…you have made a dreaded recipe do-able. Thanks
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Jamie, I love it…..what an awesome idea….jumbo shells. I am so trying it next time.
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So much goodness in one post!!
YUUUUMMY! I am trying to decide what would be a good turkey sub for a non-meat eater like myself?? Baked tofu, maybe? & great to see the strawberries!;-)
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Yes, let us k now because I may just have to make this for us this weekend
Cheesecake stuffed strawberries?!?!? Now this sounds decadent!
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This looks great! Its breakfast time here and I want lasagna!
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