Tasty Tuesday - Baked Spaghetti to die for!

I originally found this recipe at Once a Month Mom and thought "Hmm, french fried onions on spaghetti??" but since well, who doesn't love french fried onions?? I decided to try it. My family absolutely LOVED it! I made up several batches to freeze, along with some other great recipes from OAMM, but this one got gone QUICK. I mean, we ate like 3 pans of it in 2 weeks! My hips can attest to this fact...

I made it again last night (the OAMC session was a few months ago, just to clarify LOL) and didn't have everything the original recipe called for, so I tweaked it a bit. Here's my version:

Ingredients:

• 1 bag frozen pepper mix (green, red, yellow pepper strips)
  
• 2 tbsp butter
  
• 16oz (2 blocks) cream cheese
  
• 1/2 cup or so milk (eyeball it as you're melting the cream cheese)
  
• 16 pasta (any kind, I used for one pan, rotini for another)
  
• 2 jars spaghetti sauce (any brand/flavor you like)
  
• Shredded mozzerella cheese or Italian Blend
• 1 large container of French Fried Onions

Directions:

• Prepare pasta as directed on package.
• Saute vegetables in margarine.
• Add cream cheese and milk until well blended.
• Add spaghetti sauce to this and mix well.
• Combine half of spaghetti sauce and cream cheese mixture with cooked pasta.
• Divide evenly in baking dishes to suit your family size. Top with the rest of the sauce mixture, sprinkle with shredded cheese and crushed french-fried onions.

Freeze at this point if you don't want to cook it all now (it makes A LOT) or...

• Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.

BTW, I use mostly store brand stuff for this recipe: frozen peppers, spaghetti sauce, cream cheese, french fried onions...makes it a really frugal meal!

I also use whole wheat pasta & organic skim milk to make it just a *little* healthy. ;)

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