For some reason, I’m not quite as satisfied with our restaurant experience lately as I used to be. Chain restaurants, such as Chevys, serve horrible food! Not to leave small crappy places out, there are quite a few of them in Brooklyn too. I try to cook more often, as well as to vary our dinner menu, although, honestly, I’m a long way from being an excellent housewife (don’t think that I have a chance of becoming one any time soon either).

Today, tired of cooking mashed potatoes over and over again, I picked this Beef and Cheese Manicotti Recipe on Food Network. It came out quite tasty! I wasn’t able to buy any manicotti though, so I substituted the required pasta with rigatoni, the closes alternative from the local PathMark store. It took me half an hour to stuff those little bastards though, and I’m not even sure that I had to go through the process. I also added considerably less mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses, and no butter, because I think that otherwise this meal would have been too heavy. And instead of marinara souse I used a little can of stewed tomatoes.

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Boris says:
May 23, 2007 @ 11:01

Полезная информация! Спаcибо, Алена, за твой рецепт мяса с овощами

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Alena says:
May 23, 2007 @ 13:39

Не за что! Я была очень рада, что понравилось!

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Lënchik says:
May 24, 2007 @ 09:48

daang, looks delicious. too bad i missed out

and i was chocking on the stupid hotel food that night?!
next day on the physical it turned out i lost 3 lbs , i’m sure if i’d come by for dinner that night i’d be really pushing the limits with my weight.

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Lënchik says:
May 24, 2007 @ 09:49

P.S. i like your cooking better then any chevy’s of friday’s Alenushka. (as if you didn’t know that before)

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Alena says:
May 24, 2007 @ 10:26

Yeah, too bad you weren’t around. It came out better than I expected. And plenty of it too!

Thank you for the compliment!

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