{"id":210,"date":"2008-06-10T19:45:31","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T19:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marialiberati.com\/blog2\/?p=210"},"modified":"2008-06-10T19:45:31","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T19:45:31","slug":"mmmmpasta-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/2008\/06\/10\/mmmmpasta-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Mmmm..Pasta Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/pasta-pie.jpg?ssl=1\" title=\"pasta-pie.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/pasta-pie.thumbnail.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"pasta-pie.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPASTA PIE<br \/>\nEditor:Alexis Popov<br \/>\nCopyright, 2008 Maria Liberati, The Basic Art of Italian Cooking<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/.marialiberati.com\/\">https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com<\/a><br \/>\nBefore guests sit down to dinner, it is customary to put out picky stuff, typically cheese and crackers, for them to nibble on while they sip their wine.\u00a0 Although cheese and crackers may be an oblivious and easy choice for a pre-meal snack, especially since you&#8217;ve already been slaving over the stove all day to prepare dinner, they are boring.\u00a0 So next time you&#8217;re playing hostess for a group of your friends try something new, like a macaroni pie.\u00a0 \u2018Pasta pie&#8217; is a delicious mixture of fettuccini noodles, dried hot sausage, eggs, ricotta and pecorino cheeses, and parsley, all of which is mixed together in one bowl to keep your efforts and clean up to a minimum.\u00a0 If some of your guests are watching their cholesterol or calories you can substitute half the eggs for egg whites or use skim-milk cheeses to cut down the less than heart friendly fats.\u00a0 So for your next dinner party, bake up a \u2018pasta pie&#8217; and dazzle your guests with a creative and new alternative to Ritz crackers and cheddar cheese.<br \/>\nPasta Pie:<br \/>\n1 lb fettuccini pasta<br \/>\n8 eggs or 4 whole eggs and 4 egg whites<br \/>\n1 lb ricotta-whole milk, fresh ,or part skim<br \/>\n4 oz mozzarella-whole or part skim milk<br \/>\n@ 2\/3 cup dried hot sausage or soy sausage<br \/>\npecorino cheese and parsley to taste<br \/>\nMix eggs, ricotta, mozzarella, and sausage in a large mixing bowl.\u00a0 Cook pasta until it is almost al dente, you want them to be slightly harder as they will cook more in the over.\u00a0 Mix the noodles with other ingredients, add pecorino cheese and parsley and place everything in a baking pan.<br \/>\nBake at 425 for about a half hour or until the top is slightly brown or put under broiler for\u00a0final\u00a03 minutes of baking.<br \/>\nFor more great recipes get your copy of the best selling book The Basic Art of Italian Cooking at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/\">https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASTA PIE Editor:Alexis Popov Copyright, 2008 Maria Liberati, The Basic Art of Italian Cooking https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com Before guests sit down to dinner, it is customary to put out picky stuff, typically&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,41,57,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cucina","category-entertaining","category-features","category-recipes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}