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Oooh... I have one I came up with, if you don't mind, er... food that isn't low-fat. Copied/pasted from a food forum I posted it on earlier (Seppy Food): This is something I sort of came up with on my own, while modifying my mom's ziti recipe (which was really like mostacolli because there's no olives...) Anyway... it's like a pizza pasta. Or perhaps Heart attack pasta, depending on it. It's rather plain for now; I haven't gotten a chance to experiment further with spices/herbs, etc. Ingredients: 1 pound of Italian sausage 1/2 - 1 pound of rigatoni (or any short pasta you like, like penne) I jar of spaghetti sauce (whichever you prefer; I generally use the plain original because I don't like chunky tomatoes or veggies in my sauce) 1 8-oz bag of mozzarella, shredded 1 bag of pepperoni 1 9x9 pan or casserole dish Directions (just approximations, since I generally don't measure, haha): Boil the pasta as indicated but keep shy of al dente, as it'll keep cooking in the oven. Do as much as you would like. My suggestion would be to fill the dish with the raw pasta, and see how much you want. Depends on if you want more meat or more pasta. So at least half a box. Brown the sausage in a pan. Remove the grease if you would like. In the pan, pour about 1/4 to 1/3 of the jar of sauce on the bottom of it. I don't bother spraying; I find that the sauce helps keep things from sticking. But if you're afraid of it, go ahead. Add on top of it, a few handfuls of cheese. Then add in about half of the cooked sausage and as many slices of pepperoni as you would like. I wouldn't recommend too many, so please don't use up the whole package, unless it's small. On top add in about half of the half-cooked pasta. Then some more handfuls of the cheese. Repeat the last five steps: more sauce, more cheese, more meat, more pasta. Now you should have used up all the pasta and meat and most, if not all, of the sauce (all--especially if you don't want a partial jar). Then finish on top with lots of cheese. Only use the whole bag if you want to. After you preheat your oven to 350, bake it for about 15 minutes. Everything should be cooked through. You just want to heat up everything together and melt the cheese. (I'm not sure on this, though...I need to double check the cooking time and temp.) Then eat. :p

Um, so since most of us are citizens of Po'ville, thought we could share some relatively inexpensive recipes that don't take much time/effort/money.... and I don't mean ramen or instant rice.