Rotini Casserole Thingie

Fancy name for a recipe, huh? Yeah I thought you would find it amusing. This is one of those recipes that is born of necessity. Necessity to get rid of stuff in your kitchen.

This won't be the only time I'll say this, but I can't measure spices for crap. I just add enough until it looks/tastes good. So when I give you recipes with spice measurements, they are only guesstimates. If you're making a recipe that calls for 1 tbs of garlic and you think thats absolutely insane, well then, by all means, just add what you think is right. I love garlic and spicy food, so I tend to increase those spices.

Rotini Casserole Thingie
Source: my brain

Ingredients:
1-1 1/2 lbs. ground beef
1 24 oz. jar pasta sauce
3/4 box rotini noodles (or whatever you have on hand)
1 cup mozzarella cheese
1 tsp. powdered garlic
1/2 tsp. Italian seasoning (or oregano)
1/8 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350. Put a pot of water on the stove over high heat until boiling.
2. Cook pasta al dente according to directions. While pasta is cooking, put a pan over medium high heat and brown the ground beef. Drain the fat.
3. Add the garlic powder, Italian seasoning and crushed red pepper flakes to the ground beef. Once the pasta is done, drain the water.
4. Pour half of the noodles into a 9x13 dish. Top with 1/2 of the pasta sauce. Then add all of the ground beef and the other half of the pasta sauce on top of that.
5. Top with the remaining noodles and then sprinkle the cheese over the top.
6. Bake in the oven for 25-35 minutes or until cheese is slightly golden and melted.

Once again, another completely simple recipe that you can chose to dress up however you like. Have extra mushrooms, green pepper, or onions hanging out in the fridge? Cook them along with the meat and add right on in! Have some Ritz crackers that are going stale? Crush them up and put them on top of the last layer of noodles.