I sometimes like to use my pellet pit as an oven to reduce kitchen heat and/or to add light smoke flavor to whatever I'm baking.

Ingredients

1 Box jumbo pasta shells (cooked per directions)
2 Lbs lean hamburger
1 Pkg taco seasoning
2 (8 oz) pkgs cream cheese
1 Small (11 oz.) bag taco flavored Doritos
3 Cups shredded Colby/Monterey Jack cheese (Approximate quantity.  Buy a 2-sack pack from Costco and use enough cheese to cover the shells.)
1 Large jar taco sauce (I used all of a 38 Oz Pace Picante Sauce jar.)

Note:  Even though there are two lbs. of hamburger use only one package of taco seasoning.

Instructions

1.  Preheat pit to 350°.
2.  Cook pasta shells per instructions.  Set aside to cool.
3.  Brown hamburger; drain excess grease.
4.  Stir in taco seasoning.
5.  Add both packages of cream cheese and mix thoroughly.
6.  Fill cooked pasta shells with hamburger mixture and put in a 9x13 inch pan.
7.  Top with taco sauce, shredded cheese and crushed Dorito chips.
8.  Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until cheese is melted.

     Pasta shells are done.

     Stuffing is done.

     Pasta shells are stuffed.

     Shells drenched with taco sauce.

     Smothered in cheese.

     Buried with crushed Dorito chips.

     Out of the pit and ready to serve with sour cream and ripe olives.

Kids and those who are kids at heart love this.

EDIT:  Removed extraneous characters introduced by Simple Machine update.

I'm going to have to start trying some of these recipes posted on here.  They look delicious.

pmillen you have fabulous tutorials and pictures.  So much more than just a recipe.  I want to try every one!

Yea, looks gooooood!

We celebrated our grandson's birthday a few days ago.  This is what he wanted for dinner.  This recipe and a salad served seven adults, two six-year olds and two 11-year olds with a bit left over.

The kids are crazy for it.  The adults ate their share, too.

I had the shells stuffed and waiting for the right time to put them into the pit.  That was a bit of a mistake.  The cheese melted before the meat stuffing warmed thoroughly.  We had to microwave the dishes to get the stuffing properly heated.  The next time I'll heat the stuffed shells in the microwave before adding the salsa, cheese and chips and baking.

Mercy, I miss too much on this site.
Crazy the neat things you find and dang near miss.
Right up our alley, we use them much more for subtle smoke than the traditional BBQ, having said that, 4 racks of ribs for dinner tonight. Family in town from Arizona.