The Cannelloni Experiment

Week 2 Meal Preparation has started at Hoodoo Lake. Today I made up a batch of cannelloni and already, the lessons learned will serve to make the recipe better in my Sneaky Vegetarian cookbook. I wanted to see which would be easier to prepare and which would taste better: pre-cooked cannelloni noodles or uncooked cannelloni shells. Well the conclusion is: the uncooked shells are way easier and much more pleasant to prepare. It`s less messy and it`s easier to get the filling into the shells with but a small spoon as a tool. On the other hand, the pre-cooked shells are floppy, take 14 minutes to pre-cook and use up more filling. As for taste, the first tester`s opinion is that they are both equally good. So, to avoid the PIA factor associated with pre-cooking the shells and the messiness in filling them, the uncooked shells are the winner. We shall see what the remaining testers will decide this week!!