Saucy Baked Seafood Alfredo

1  1/2 tbsps flour
pinch baking soda
pinch salt
1  1/2 tbsps butter
1  1/2 cups milk (2 % is fine)
1/4 cup parmesan cheese
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1 cup shredded cheese (cheddar, mozzarella, havarti, etc)
1  1/2 cups pasta , I used shells. Seemed right with seafood : )
olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 lb shrimp (cooked)
1/2 lb mussels meat (raw)
zest of 1 lemon
2-3 tbsps chopped fresh parsley

Prepare the white sauce. Mix together the flour, baking soda and salt.  In a saucepan melt the butter, then stir in the flour, etc. Pour the milk in while whisking and heat a few minutes to thicken.  Add the parmesan and remove from heat.

Cook pasta according to package directions, drain, toss with olive oil and set aside. 

Have the cottage cheese, 1/2 cup shredded cheese and parsley mixed together in a bowl.

Take your mussel meat and quickly fry them in a little oil and butter, along with the garlic, 2-3 minutes should do it.  If you have raw shrimp, cook them together with the mussel meat until they are pink. If you have the cooked shrimp like I did just toss them in with the cooked mussels/garlic once off the heat.

Spray a 10 X 10 baking dish with cooking spray.
Mix 1/2 the white sauce with the pasta and pour into the prepared dish. Layer the seafood next, sprinkled with 1/2 the lemon zest.

Followed by the cottage cheese mix. Cover that with the other 1/2 of the white sauce, zest and the remainder of the shredded cheese.

Cover with foil and bake at 350 F for 25 minutes.
Uncover for another 10 minutes and broil 1-2 minutes at the end.

Let stand 5-10 minutes before digging in.