This is a great casserole that you add hamburger meat, canned black-eyed-peas , Rotel tomatoes & cream cheese. This casserole is even delicious if you don't like black-eyed-peas. A take-off of the original dip, but now it's a casserole.

Directions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Brown 1 lb hamburger meat & set aside. Mix contents of package with 3 cups water. Bring to a boil. Let simmer 10 - 15 minutes until pasta is done. When pasta is done add 8oz cream cheese, browned hamburger meat, 1 - 10oz can Rotel tomatoes or diced tomatoes & 1 - 15.5oz can of black eye peas . Mix well. pour mixture into an 8x8 casserole dish & top with grated cheddar cheese. Bake for 10 minutes until cheese is melted. Serve and enjoy.

Ingredients: Pasta(semolina[wheat], durum flour[wheat], egg, niacin, iron[ferrous sulfate], thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), chicken base(salt, corn starch, sugar, hydrolyzed corn gluten & soy protein, maltodextrin, rendered chicken fat{rendered chicken fat, natural flavoring}, dry onion, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, partially hydrogenated soybean & cottonseed oil, spice extractive, extractive of turmeric (for color), yellow #5 lake, less than 2% soybean oil and calcium silicate as processing aids),onions, garlic, parsley, and selected spices.