How about making crepe type thingies and rolling them into Canelloni tubes? I think Lori had a recipe for something along those lines.......

Alexa

Manicotti. I put spinach in my food processor, add cottage cheese (or ricotta) parmesan (just a small amount) and mozzarella and spices and stuff them into hard manicotti shells. Then I cover them with a pasta sauce (we can our own) and add a little extra water, amiking sure they are completely covered, cover with foil, and bake about an hour or less. I stuff the shells but pushing the goodies in with a wooden spoon handle. You do not need no bake pasta, and they are much easier to stuff when hard.
Can I come for supper?

Alas, no manicotti shells. Just lots of tubular ziti type pasta. I love the idea of crepes, but think my picky eaters might not.
Thanks though for the quick responses.

Here is Loris recipe it's so good! The crepes only take a few minutes to make. If you don't want to do that...but I'm telling you they're good! Just cook Penne or any other heartier pasta and layer the pasta, the filling in Lori's recipe and tomato sauce. Maybe grate some Parm or Moz for the top.

PS: You need that spinach to night Popeye!!!!! Go get 'em!

Canneloni Stuffed With Spinach And Ricotta

My notes: Lori's recipe. Originally called for 2 pounds fresh spinach, cooked and drained. I have served with the cream sauce or a tomato sauce. Proscuitto is a nice addition

Crepes
6 eggs
1 1/2 Cup flour
1/4 Tsp salt
1 1/2 Cup water

Filling
1 Package frozen spinach thawed and
1 1/2 Cup ricotta
3/4 Cup parmesan
2 egg yolks
Pinch nutmeg
salt and pepper
1 TBSP butter Unsalted
1 Cup heavy cream

Combine first 4 ingredients in bowl with electric mixer. Ler stand at least 1/2 hour ( I don't always). Cook individual crepes over med heat.

Combine spinach , ricotta, egg yolks. 1/4 cup parmesan, nutmeg, salt and pepper. Blend well with a fork. Prehaet oven to 350. Grease a casserole dish with the butter. Spread mixture onto to crepes and roll up. Lay seam side down in the dish. Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup parmesan. and por the cream over top. Bake until they turn golden,about 20 minutes.

Jo these crepes aren't like "crepe crepes". They are more like an egg pasta.

This would work well with any tubular pasta.

I agree, just use your ziti or whatever and layer your ingredients just like you would with lasagna noodles. Easy as can be...

Annie

I have made soemthing that whoever gave it to me called "inside out ravioli" that essentially mixed up spinach, cooked pasta of some sort...ziti is good...and ricotta and parm and mozz, mixed up with a meat sauce, tomato based and baked.

Thanks, guys. I made a white sauce, added spinach and ricotta. Spread a little on the bottom of a baking dish, then mixed the rest with the noodles. (seasoned with s/p and dried mustard). Spooned half the mixture over the sauce, added a layer of mozzarella. Repeated with noodle mix and topped with mozz.
Doesn't look all that great, but hopefully will taste good. Thanks for the ideas of layering it.

Jo

Well, how was it?

It was good in a mac-and-cheese-and spinach sort of way. should have used half the noodles, but not too bad. Very pop-eye comfort food.
Thanks for asking.
Jo