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MEXICAN STUFFED PASTA SHELLS A Ground Beef Taco Flavored Dinner
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Mar 14, 2025
MEXICAN STUFFED PASTA SHELLS A Ground Beef Taco Flavored Dinner Today's Recipe: https://catherinesplates.com/taco-stuffed-pasta-bake/ **Click here to see my recipe blog: https://catherinesplates.com NEW: To purchase my Dessert Cookbook, click link https://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/10034701/10feb0fb4a14a171cfaeed6889d6656eab1a0016 *To purchase my cookbook vol 1, click link https://www.blurb.com/b/9452561-catherine-s-plates **To purchase my cookbook vol 2, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/10367334-catherine-s-plates-cookbook ***To purchase my cookbook vol 3, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/11248440-catherine-s-plates-3rd-edition-2022 ***My Amazon StoreFront https://www.amazon.com/shop/catherinesplates (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) ***Follow me on Social Media Facebook @ https://facebook.com/catherinesplates/ YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuvgtfqhHTKI5kymcLKeyxg Pinterest @ https://www.pinterest.com/CatherinesPlates/ TikTok @ https://www.tiktok.com/@catherinesplates Rumble @ https://rumble.com/c/c-1642522
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welcome back everyone today we are going
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to make Mexican stuffed pasta shells and
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we are using these very big jumbo shells
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to make these we're going to put our
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delicious flavored ground beef and other
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ingredients it gives it kind of a taco
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flare put them into these shells oh it's
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going to be delicious y'all ready we're
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going to go back here I'm going to show
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you how we're going to cook our shells
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now to bring your water to a boil faster
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just put a lid on it
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to the boiling water I'm going to add
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about half a tablespoon of salt this
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will help flavor our pasta
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shells now these are what I'm using
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right here this is a 12 oz box of jumbo
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shells you're going to need about 20 to
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24
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shells well that's what they look like
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they almost fit into the palm of your
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hand
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so we're going to place these
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in just going to hook the whole
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box now what I'm going to do is cook
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these per the directions on the back of
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the box for all Dente it takes about 14
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15 minutes that'll give us time to get
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that mixture put
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together give these a stir for just
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about 30 seconds that'll keep them from
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sticking once these are done what we'll
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do is drain them and then run them under
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some cold water that way we can manage
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these easier to get the mixture inside
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of
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them okay I've put 1 tablespoon of
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butter into the bottom of a large
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Skillet going to put it on medium high
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heat and we're going to start melting
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that and while that's happening we're
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going to take a mediumsized yellow onion
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and we're going to dice it
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down we can take off both ends
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we're going to take off that outer
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layer and pass it off to my
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husband we're going to cut it in half
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lay it down I'm going to run my knife
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through the lines of the onion just kind
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of make slices
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if I had other things to chop I'd be
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bringing over my Chopper but this is
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just as easy and
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fast turn it
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sideways run my knife
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through and there's our
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dices tuck your fingers
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in there we
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go okay we got our butter nice and
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sizzling
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here let's go ahead and add our
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onion we're going to soften these onions
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down for 3 to four
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minutes okay look at how soft those
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onions are they got a little golden
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brown tint to them we're going to add in
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one pound of ground beef
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we go get my meat
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Chopper all right let's break it up
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we're going to cook this until the
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ground beef is no longer pink cook
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through my jumbo pasta shells are
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finished cooking I went ahead and
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drained them and I ran cold water over
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them until I can touch them very easily
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my ground beef is nice and browned up I
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did drain off any excess grease out of
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the there so can go ahead and do that
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and then we're going to add these
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delicious ingredients so come on down
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here you guys I've got a 16 oz jar of
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some salsa we're using the pecante
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because we like it it's a medium flavor
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it does come in mild also or you can get
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the
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hot there we go I'm going to be using
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2/3 of the jar
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here we're going to save the rest for
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later part of the recipe let's
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see a little bit more there we go
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perfect so we'll save
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that get that mixed in we're going to
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add in some taco
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seasoning you can either use one packet
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that you can get from your store or
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three tablespoons if it comes in the big
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container or if you have your homemade
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blend which I do right here look at that
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doesn't that look
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goodoo smells delicious you would use
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three tablespoons of that you can find
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my taco blend on my website C plates.com
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it's called big batch taco
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seasoning think I had this on the there
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we
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go and then you can adjust to your taste
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if you want to do that and what I like
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to do when I have my own taco seasoning
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there is add a little bit of salt that
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way I can control it when I make my
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seasoning blend here I can add it as I
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need it and I know I'm going to need
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about a/4 of a
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teaspoon woo that lid went everywhere
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okay we're going to add in one whole can
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I've drained it of whole kernel corn is
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14
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oz and then we're going to add
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in half a cup of shredded this is a
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Mexican cheese
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blend we're going to stir this all
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together we want to get that cheese nice
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and
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melted going to stir it for like one
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minute I'm going to close up my lid here
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so I don't fling anything in
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there it's a kitchen it can
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happen now the cheese will help keep
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everything
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together when we make our little stuffed
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shells oh it smells delicious make sure
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you grab a spoon give it a taste see if
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you need to adjust any other flavorings
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or seasonings because that's it you guys
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I'm going to turn off the
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burner there we go that's why you need
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help in the kitchen all right I'm going
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to give that a little
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try I can't wait for
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that all right let's stuff some
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shells we're going to take the rest of
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the bante sauce or your salsa from the
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jar put it into the bottom of our baking
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dish I'm using a 9
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by3 we're going to give it a shake shake
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shake
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shake get down to the
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corners we don't want our jumbo shells
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to
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stick kind of go down the sides a little
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bit up on the sides there there we go
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perfect
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we're going to take one of our jumbo
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shells here they're nice and easy to
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handle I'm just going to kind of unwind
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it open it up take a
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tablespoon and we're going to put it
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right into the center of
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it and probably another half
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there all right what we're going to do
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is place it into our baking
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dish and then we're just going to keep
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going like that
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how fun are these going to be just about
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one tablespoon and a
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half all right I'm going start squeezing
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these down a little
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bit so my baking dish here made8
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of the stuffed jumbo shells now I have
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some extra meat mixture here and then I
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had some extra
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shells some of them were kind of broken
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and were're hard to put together but you
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can cut these up and add them to the
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mixture here and then just kind of
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freeze it and have it for you know a
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meal another day or you can put these in
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flour tortillas you know if you want to
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keep the mixture separate from the pasta
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whatever you do that's fine I'm going to
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take a little bit of some salsa from
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another
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jar and I'm just going to driz over the
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top a little
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bit it'll go down the sides of
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them and then we're going to take some
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cheese sprinkle all on top more of the
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Mexican cheese
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blend woo these are going to be good how
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fun is this like cross between an
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Italian and Mexican dish I guess
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so we're going to place this in the oven
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that I've got preheated at
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350° it's only going to take about 15 to
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20 minutes to heat everything through
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and get that cheese nice and bubbly and
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melted I'll be back we're going to top
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this with a garnish we're going to give
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this a try for
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you look at these
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oh all right let's garnish them up I got
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some green onions that I've sliced
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they're going to go right on the top
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now you can eat these with like sour
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cream to dip them in if you want to do
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that all
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right I'm going to serve these up I've
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got a nice Caesar salad here that I've
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put
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together look at those I cannot wait got
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my
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Fork let's do it like that there we go m
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there is my
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bite wow they're like little pockets the
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jumbo shells holding that delicious
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Mexican taco flavored mixture wow that's
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good you guys serve it up with your
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favorite side whatever you want to do
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