My Once A Month Cooking (OAMC): Homemade Lasagna Recipe

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Homemade Lasagna Recipe

here is the recipe for the Lasagna. It calls for jars or spaghetti sauce. I use my homemade mix. This also calls for no boil lasagna noodles, this time I used them...in the past I've made my own. I intended to make my own this time, but I was getting pressed for time so opted to use the store bought!

So..here goes

1 lb Italian sausage
1/2 lb lean ground beef
2 jars of pre-made spaghetti sauce
16 oz ricotta cheese
1 egg
4 cups freshly shredded mozzarella cheese
1 cup Parmesan cheese
2 pkg (9 oz) of no boil lasagna noodles
Parsley and garlic powder for dusting the top

Make sauce early in the morning and let simmer all day. Cook the combination of Italian sausage and ground beef in a large pan. Drain and set aside.

Place Ricotta cheese in a large bowl and add egg. Beat well. Set aside.

Shred Mozzarella cheese and place in a large bowl. Set aside.

Preheat oven to 350 at this time.

Lay out all of these ingredients and a 9 x 13 lasagna pan in an assembly line on your counter

Ladle 2 cups of sauce into your pan and coat.

Take your uncooked lasagna noodles and lay them out over sauce. About 5-6 horizontally and 2 vertically. You do not need to be perfect-I promise you won't mess up.

Take about a cup of ricotta cheese and with a butter knife spread it on top of your noodles.

Sprinkle Mozzarella and Parmesan cheese on top of Ricotta Cheese. Sprinkle Italian sausage on top of cheeses.

Ladle more sauce on top

Repeat process until pan is filled

Top with Mozzarella cheese a sprinkle of garlic powder and a garnish of parsley on top.

Bake covered for 30 minutes, uncover and bake an additional 15 minutes until bubbly and lightly browned on top.

BING CHERRY SALAD

1 15 oz can of sweet pitted cherries, drained and liquid reserved.
1 8 oz can of crushed pineapple
8 oz cream cheese
8 oz cool whip
2 cups miniature marshmallows

in a bowl, combine 1/4 cup reserved juice and the cream cheese and cool whip and mix until thoroughly mixed. then add pineapple and marshmallows. Finally add cherries. chill until ready to serve.

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Introduction

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by deciding what to prepare for a meal? I know I have. Many times. Especially our evening meal when our three children were growing up. Then one day I stumbled across a program called "Once A Month Cooking" (OAMC) and thought I'd give it a try. It was a lifesaver and I loved it. I did it for years, from the time my youngest was in preschool until he was in the 8th grade. I don't remember why I quit, just that I did. When I was doing the OAMC back then I prepared a lot of full, complete meals and froze them, entree, side, and dessert. The only thing I had to actually prepare for the meal was the vegetable or the potatoes. For those of you not familiar with the OAMC program, I will try to explain it to you here. This blog is to try to help you see what it takes, how to do itm give you ideas and how much fun you can actually have. OAMC is the ultimate do-ahead dinner preparation technique. The secret of the OAMC technique is that you cook all your dinner main dishes for a month (or two weeks or even a week) in one day, freeze them, and enjoy eating tasty food, every night without the hassle of lengthy meal preparation. In this blog, I will try to provide the menu we use, shopping lists and recipes. You do not have to have organizational skills, nor do you have to be a good cook to successfully accomplish OAMC. What you need to expect and plan to is: Take a longer-than usual shopping trip, preferably the day or night before your cooking day. Spend the bulk of your month's food budget on this shopping trip (saving money over the course of the month) Cook with a partner or two or three, like I do, for maximum fun and efficiency. Cook half a day for a two week cycle, a full day for a month cycle. Love the freedom and possibilities this will bring to mealtimes. Enjoy family building times around the table and like us, the time we cook together. Take the stress out of having company for dinner I suggest for the first few time you do the OAMC to try to do the two week cycle. Then when you get the feel of the "system" advance on the full month if that is what you want and have room for the food. Also in this blog I will frequently give you suggestions of what to serve with a certain recipe. Please feel free to email me with any suggestions and question syou might have. Even leave a comment here on the blog.