Southwestern Leftover Pasta

1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. Melt butter in sauce pan over medium-low heat.
3. Add flour and stir for a minute or two. Flour will absorb the butter and start to get clumpy.
4. Stir in milk. Continue to stir over medium-low heat until thickened and the flour isn’t clumpy anymore.
5. Add cheese and stir while melts.
6. Add bacon and stir.
7. Add can of tomatoes, juice and all, as well as a dash of hot sauce (more if you like it hotter).
8. After stirring and melting, let the mixture bubble over heat.
9. This is where I threw in all the leftover meats in the fridge – cut up sausage and ground beef (heated up in the microwave first).
10. Mix with pasta in the casserole dish.
11. Put in the hot oven for about 10 minutes, or long enough to heat the pasta through and get bubbly.

I added green onions as a garnish to my serving. My sisters don’t like them, so I didn’t use them over the whole dish. I liked the flavor they add.