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Kalmia Kalmia is offline
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Default Jumbo shells by DaVinci - 3.39 for 12 oz box in my mkt.

On Mar 2, 3:18*pm, Goomba > wrote:
> Kalmia wrote:
> > On lowest shelf, but they at least had em. *I haven't made em in years
> > - the darn things broke up and were hard to stuff. *I would make
> > extras in the future for the breakage factor. *I found that a tiny
> > spoon worked best for stuffing. *Almost as bad as stuffing
> > manicotti.

>
> I cook shells before stuffing, but I've given up pre-cooking manicot. I
> just stuff them uncooked, thin the sauce a bit and add plenty then bake
> covered with foil for 45 minutes before uncovering the last 10-15 min or
> so. They come out great that way. *Who knew?!


Great tip. I'll have to try it.