Inside out pasta pie and other health foods

[sqbr]

On Saturday night I couldn't decide what to cook with the ingredients I had to hand, so looked them up in google, but I forgot to add "spinach" so just had "Beef mince recipe", and what with the internet being largely american, and american cuisine being, uh, intensely idtastic(*) I came across some very not-diet-friendly dishes, one of which was so bizarre I had to try it (modified to my tummy's requirements)

I give you: Adriana's Pasta Pie, a mix of pasta, sauce, and cheese, covered in cheese, in a crust made of cheese..and meat.

Of course, I made it without the cheese, which kind of defeats the purpose, but it was still quite satisfyingly meaty(**). You might be able to make a vegetarian version with chickpea patty mix I guess?

The other promising recipe (to my tastes) was Southwestern Baked Spaghetti (which might not suffer so much from a de-cheesing). Also, googling "meat crust" got me Low Carb Meat Crust Pizza, which gets my vote for most undiety diet food ever, I guess at least they tell you to drain the grease...

EDIT: Via lauredhel, the wonderful trashy_eats. Mm. Tasty.

(*)I'm trying to use less ablist language, or the term I would have used there is INSANE
(**) If you're curious, the changes I made were to replace the sauce with bottled sauce (1.5 hours to make pasta sauce?) plus garlic, basil, spinach and tomato paste and half an egg (to make up for the flavour and goopiness of cheese respectively), and I added some smoked garlic and tomato paste to the meat to make it tastier. Oh, and I only made two servings so cooked it for less time. It made a nice lunch today, too.

Comments

[lauredhel.livejournal.com]

"Idtastic" is a word made of awesome.

Have you checked out trashy_eats? Strictly amusement value.

[alias_sqbr]

Oh wow that's awesome.

Though it's making me hungry :)