My friend Julie taught me this recipe many years ago. She uses broccoli as the vegetable in hers. Broccoli is sadly one of the few foods that I am allergic to, so I had to adapt the recipe. It has become one of the recipes in our regular rotation and even though it is a tiny bit labour intensive because of stuffing the shells, it is easy and only uses 5 ingredients.

This dish is mild enough to be a favourite with the kids but flavourful enough for us adults to enjoy.

• large pasta shells
• jar of Alfredo sauce (I used Roasted Garlic Alfredo this time but any will do)
• boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• cheddar cheese
• fresh or frozen asparagus (I always use frozen for this dish)

Cook the chicken and then cube it. To save time, I almost always have cooked, chopped chicken in little bags in the freezer to use in this recipe and a few others.

Cook pasta shells according to package and drain.

In a bowl, mix together Alfredo sauce, cubed chicken, 1 cup of grated cheese and chopped asparagus. If you’d like, you can also add salt and pepper to this step.

Stuff mixture in cooked shells using a spoon and lay in a baking dish. Bake at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes.

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Many years ago when we bought our first home, we had a Luau themed housewarming party and I baked a pineapple upside down cake. It turned out really well and I made it regularly for awhile but as it sometimes is with recipes, somehow, it fell out of the regular rotation and I hadn’t made it in many years.

Last week, we were having friends over for lunch after church and I was rushing around in the morning trying to figure out what dessert I could make quickly before church and then throw in the oven when we got back home and stumbled on a can of pineapple in the pantry and remembered the basics of my recipe for this cake.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

1 can of pineapple tidbits, drained

1/2 cup melted butter

1 1/2 cups brown sugar

2 Tbsp. maple syrup

Grease pan really well. Place pineapple tidbits down in pan.

Mix together the melted butter, brown sugar and maple syrup. Spread this mixture on top of the pineapple.

1/2 cup butter, softened

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 1/2 tsp. vanilla

3/4 cup milk

1 3/4 cups flour

1 Tbsp. baking powder

In a bowl, cream butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Mix in milk. Add flour and baking powder and combine all ingredients.

Spread cake mixture over other layer.

Bake for 55 minutes.

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