{"id":44,"date":"2008-04-01T17:13:07","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T22:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baconwrappedlife.com\/archives\/44"},"modified":"2008-04-03T14:36:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T19:36:44","slug":"in-the-oven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"In the oven&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love pasta shapes.&#160; Most of them have fun names that come from their appearances, and adorable tiny things make me smile \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jemts.com\/pink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gemelli1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"157\" alt=\"gemelli1\" src=\"http:\/\/jemts.com\/pink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gemelli1_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jemts.com\/pink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gemelli2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"171\" alt=\"gemelli2\" src=\"http:\/\/jemts.com\/pink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gemelli2_thumb.jpg\" width=\"171\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Gemelli roughly means &quot;twins&quot; in Italian (think Gemini, the twins) and they are two little rods twisted together. Any short, hefty-ish pasta would work well.&#160; I tend to avoid long noodles in casseroles, because it is difficult to mix sauce and pasta evenly.&#160; I had milk, chicken, and random stuff around, so I got gemelli and made this tonight. It&#8217;s a beautiful PINK \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><u>Gemelli Blush Alfredo Bake<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 Tb. butter <\/li>\n<li>4 Tb. flour <\/li>\n<li>1\/2 quart of milk <\/li>\n<li>salt &amp; pepper <\/li>\n<li>grated parmesan cheese (I used one small bag) <\/li>\n<li>1 cup chicken broth <\/li>\n<li>1 can petite diced tomatoes <\/li>\n<li>1 pound par-cooked gemelli pasta <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>melt butter over medium low heat <\/li>\n<li>add flour and whisk together and let heat for a minute or two (this gets the raw flour taste out) <\/li>\n<li>off of the heat, slowly add milk, whisking constantly to get rid of any clumps <\/li>\n<li>return to heat and stir while it slowly thickens <\/li>\n<li>salt and pepper liberally (this seasons the sauce, the pasta, the tomatoes, and anything else you add, so don&#8217;t be stingy) <\/li>\n<li>add parmesan and stir until melted <\/li>\n<li>off heat, add chicken broth, tomatoes (this is when it gets wonderfully pink!), and pasta (I also added one chicken breast, sliced, because I had it on hand&#8230;you could also use veggies, broccoli, whatever) <\/li>\n<li>coat a casserole pan with cooking spray and pour in pasta mixture, making sure to spread everything evenly around the pan <\/li>\n<li>cover with foil and cook at 350&#176; for about 30 minutes <\/li>\n<li>uncover and bake another 20 to 30 minutes (until pasta is cooked through) <\/li>\n<li>top with mozzarella if desired and bake for 5 minutes until cheese is melted <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love pasta shapes.&#160; Most of them have fun names that come from their appearances, and adorable tiny things make me smile \ud83d\ude42 Gemelli roughly means &quot;twins&quot; in Italian (think Gemini, the twins) and they are two little rods twisted together. Any short, hefty-ish pasta would work well.&#160; I tend to avoid long noodles in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}