Rigatoni Cheese Bake

So for today's recipe, I made a Rigatoni Cheese Bake. It sounds simple to make because it is super simple. All the ingredients used in today's recipe you can get at Trader Joe's, which is where I went, or you can easily get them at any grocery store. What will I need, you might ask? Here are the materials:

1 pound Rigatoni Pasta

7 Slices of Mozzarella Cheese

2 18 oz Jars of Tomato or Marinara Sauce

2 cups of Pre-Cooked Chicken Breast, cut up

1 tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil

1. Preheat the oven to 350 Degrees F. Bring a large pot of water to a boil, and cook the pasta. While the pasta is cooking, cut the chicken up into small, spreadable pieces. 

2. Coat a 9 x 13 pan with a tablespoon of Extra Virgin Olive Oil and spread it around the pan. Then pour one of the jars of Marinara sauce onto the oil. 

3. Once the pasta is cooked, drain the pasta, and pour the pasta over the sauce in the pan. Be careful, the pasta will be hot!

4. Now take the chicken you have cut up, and spread that over the noodles. 

5. Now pour the second jar of on top of the chicken and noodles.

6. Top the chicken, sauce, and noodles with the slices of mozzarella cheese, and cover with foil. Be careful that the foil doesn't touch the cheese otherwise the two will become best friends and stick together!

7. Now bake that for 15 minutes covered, take it out, take off the foil, and cook it for another 10 uncovered. And bam, you have delicious, cheesy, saucy, pasta!

Nutella Swirl Brownies

For my first recipe, I thought I would start off with something super simple, Nutella Brownies. So to start, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. 

What You'll Need: 

A family size box of Pilsbury Chocolate Fudge Brownie Mix (I like them fudgey rather than cakey)

1/2 cup of oil

1/4 cup of water

2 Large eggs

About a 1/2 cup of Nutella 

Cooking spray

While the oven is heating up, mix together brownie mix, oil, water, and two eggs in a large mixing bowl with a whisk. Once everything is blended up and there are no lumps left, set aside. Now spray two large muffin tins with the cooking spray. Spoon 1 1/2 tablespoons of brownie batter into each tin. I was able to get about 19 out of the mix. 

Once you've done that, now it's time for the Nutella. Now if you are like me, licking the brownie batter spoon is inevitable, so grab a clean spoon for the Nutella. Spoon a 1/2 teaspoon into each brownie cup, and once you have done that, take a knife and swirl each brownie cup a few times. Put those bad boys in the oven for 28 minutes or until mostly cooked through with the toothpick test. Allow to cool and take them out of the tins once cool and enjoy :) So simple, yet so addicting, it will be very hard not wait to eat them, especially while warm. 

The finished products :) mmmm.