No-boil pasta bake
by abbamoses
This started out as a chicken-and-cheese dish (very good!) that we heavily modified for Lent. It’s still very good, and just involves stirring a bunch of things together in a casserole dish — you don’t have to pre-cook the pasta, which is sort of cool. As always, most of the ingredients are negotiable; modify to suit your own tastes.
Pre-heat the oven to 400°.
In a dutch oven or other lidded, oven-safe vessel, stir together:
- 8 oz. of your favorite pasta: macaroni etc. (we’ve been using penne).
- 1 15-oz. can of diced tomatoes, with juices.
- 1 onion, chopped
- several cloves of garlic, chopped
- basil and/or oregano, dried or fresh
- salt and pepper to taste
- bell pepper, chopped (we often use a bagged frozen “pepper and onion” mix from the supermarket. Thaw it first.)
- Several mushrooms, sliced.
- 2 cups water
- A few dashes of hot sauce if you want it spicy
Bake, covered, for one hour.
That’s it. It may look a little soupy when it comes out of the oven, but as it cools it will set nicely. With a good salad, it’s a meal.
That Which is Bread 
This sounds similar to the dish I’m taking to Family Night before vespers tonight. Stewed tomatoes with macaroni. It sounds similar except without the extras you add and I just boil the macaroni and add it to the tomatoes, already heated. Sometimes I add butter(not during a fast of course) and a hint of sugar.