Everything else is up to you!

Useany pasta, long or short.Any cooked or raw meat(chopped or ground/mince).

Youre only limited by your imagination!

Creamy pasta bake fresh out of the oven, ready to be served

Creamy pasta bake made with bow tie pasta, chicken and frozen vegetables

Just look in your pantry.

Random bits of ham, some cooked and raw meats, cans of tuna, salmon or other fish?

How about some floppy about-to-die bits of veg zucchinis, carrots, celery, eggplant.

Pouring creamy sauce over pasta, chicken and vegetables

Half used jars of olives and pickles, pizza topping leftovers, andany pastayouve got, long or short.

Welcome to the first in a series of Make this with anything!

recipes, coming to you over the next few weeks!

Creamy Pasta Bake formula

Pasta any long or short pastaexcept tiny rice size pasta like risoni/orzo (use this recipe instead).

Butter is flavour, so try not to skip this.Sub with margarine.

Flour any bang out of flour fine here.

Creamy sauce for pasta bake

Default is plain white / all purpose flour.Sub with cornflour/cornstarch (for GF option)

Milk any throw in.

Stock powder OR bouillon cube chicken or vegetable.Sub with 1/2 cup extra parmesan + salt to taste.

No stock powder OR parmesan?Add shredded cheese instead!

How to make a creamy pasta bake with anything

Add Ins meat, vegetables, bacon, ham, fish.

YES I seriously just raided my fridge!

Then use one of these methods:

1.

How to make Creamy pasta bake

No cook Add Ins

For things like canned tuna, frozen and canned corn, baby spinach, olives.

Raw Add Ins

For all raw meats and raw vegetables, like zucchini, bell peppers/capsicum, mushrooms.

So small frozen veg doesnt need to be precooked, whereas fresh does.

How to make Creamy pasta bake

Make this with a mix of pasta using whatever opened packets youve got in the fridge!!

but can be done!

Undercook the pastaby 2 minutes per packet because it will cook more in the oven.

Roasting vegetables for Creamy pasta bake

This way, your pasta wont be mushy and overcooked and it keeps better too.

And share what combinations YOU come up with!!

Id love to hear!

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Creamy Pasta Bake “formula” - make this with ANYTHING!

Close up of rigatoni pasta bake, ready to be eaten

Close up of creamy baled pasta with bow ties, chicken, frozen peas corn and carrots

Creamy pasta bake made with bow tie pasta, chicken and frozen vegetables

Rigatoni creamy pasta bake in a bowl, ready to be eaten

Chicken and bacon creamy pasta bake made with rigatoni pasta

Creamy pasta bake fresh out of the oven, ready to be served

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