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Default manicotti strategy

On Monday, March 2, 2015 at 2:09:18 PM UTC-5, l not -l wrote:
> On 2-Mar-2015, Kalmia > wrote:
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> > I cut them in half, stand the flat end on a cutting board, then use a tiny
> > spoon with which I fill em like an ice cream cone. They are easier to
> > handle when filling, easier to remove from the baking dish, and at a
> > potluck, maybe ppl will take fewer and leave some for the next guy.

>
> I put the filling in a zip lock bag, snip off one corner. While holding the
> shell in one hand, I squeeze the filling from the bag into the shell.


These aren't shells- they're tubes. Shells are harder to stuff - hard to hold open, so I rarely use shells.