{"id":125,"date":"2011-09-02T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gobananaelaine.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/02\/lainey-style-beefaroni"},"modified":"2020-12-10T02:31:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T02:31:49","slug":"lainey-style-beefaroni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elainekwok.com\/lunchlainey\/2011\/09\/02\/lainey-style-beefaroni\/","title":{"rendered":"Lainey-Style Beefaroni"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sometimes I crave the garbage-food of my youth (okay… early 20s). The problem is, since I’m allergic to dairy, I can’t just pick up a can of Chef Boyardee and go to town on it. No, I have to MAKE it. So what is normally a 3 minute convenience food for many becomes an hour-long process0 for me, just to satisfy that one little craving.<\/p>\n

Enter, Lainey-Style Beefaroni. All the gooey goodness\/badness, none of the dairy, and somewhat less preservatives.<\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/b>
\nTomato sauce<\/a>
\n1\/2 lb. ground beef
\n1\/2 package Daiya mozzarella shreds
\n4 cups or so of cooked Kraft Dinner macaroni noodles, substitute with good pasta if you want.
\nBread crumbs<\/p>\n

Let’s do it!<\/b>
\nBrown the ground beef in a skillet and drain. Add to the tomato sauce and simmer while making the pasta.<\/p>\n

A note on the pasta: <\/i>The reason why I have KD macaroni in the house is because my friend came over, planning on dropping off a bunch of food at the grocery store in the donation box. The grocery store didn’t have a donation box for some reason, so he ended up leaving it at my house. I noticed that the KD was past its expiry date, meaning they probably wouldn’t take it. So I threw out all the seasoning packs and put all the noodles into a plastic container to cook myself. I use these noodles every time I want some garbagey pasta.<\/p>\n

Put the pasta in an oven-proof dish with most of the Daiya and the meat sauce. Mix well.<\/p>\n

Top with a thin layer of breadcrumbs and the rest of the Daiya.<\/p>\n

Place in the oven (or toaster oven) on broil for about 20 minutes. You don’t NEED to do this, but I like having some crispy portions to the otherwise soft mess that is this dish.<\/p>\n

This isn’t nearly as garbagey as the canned stuff, but the processed taste of the Daiya cheese mixed with the beef and tomato sauce hits the right spot for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I crave the garbage-food of my youth (okay… early 20s). The problem is, since I’m allergic to dairy, I can’t just pick up a can of Chef Boyardee and go to town on it. No, I have to MAKE it. So what is normally a 3 minute convenience food for many becomes an hour-long… <\/p>\n

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