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.
Ingredients1 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.
Instructions1. 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.
