Easy lasagna

I just love the fact that I don't have to cook the noodles to perfection for this lasagna!  

  

1 ½ lbs. hamburger

1 medium onion, chopped

1 ½ cup water

1 (28 oz.) bottle spaghetti sauce

1 Tbs. brown sugar

1 ½ cups Mozzarella cheese, shredded

1 pint cottage cheese

½ cup parmesan cheese, shredded

1 box lasagna noodles, uncooked

In a large skillet, brown hamburger and onion. Also season with salt and pepper to taste.

 Add water,  spaghetti sauce and brown sugar to meat.  

(I didn't have store bought spaghetti sauce on hand so I used the spaghetti sauce recipe from the October archives  http://nrappleye.blogspot.com/2011/09/spaghetti-sauce.html  Omitting the ground beef, ending up with just sauce.  it's the perfect amount called for in this lasagna recipe.)

 

You can leave the brown sugar out if you are using the home made sauce because it already has it in it. 

Stir to blend well.  Turn heat down to low and let simmer while you mix the cheeses together.

Mix cheeses together in a bowl and set aside.

In a 9x13 baking dish,  layer in this order,

meat mixture, 

then uncooked noodles, 

meat mixture

cheese mixture next.

Repeat layering steps, so you have 2-3 layers of   
uncooked noodles.  Don't worry if the noodles are broken, just throw them on, no one will ever know!

noodles

meat sauce

Cheese

Cover with foil and bake at 375 degrees for 1 hour or 
until noodles are soft.

As all good tomato base foods go, this will yummy tonight but  even better tomorrow!

                                                             © Nancy Rappleye 2013

The Ultimate Breakfast Sandwich

With a new grand-baby here, I have been visiting our son and daughter in law to help with their 3 year old.  One morning our son Hyrum made breakfast for us and I knew
 I needed to share the recipe!
 Now, just to let you know right up front, you can make this sandwich with Turkey bacon and saute the onions in olive oil.  You can also use low calorie cream cheese and 
the cheese and bread of your choice. 
We used Pork bacon, sauteed the onions in the bacon grease and used regular cream cheese and Gouda cheese and placed it all on whole grain bread  LOL! I had to have something healthy in there!  

(something funny about this picture....if you look closely at the half of sandwich on the left, you will see that the tip of it is gone.  After we got it all set up to take a picture, Hyrum and I both went to get our cameras and when we turned back around my 3 year old grandson was taking a bite! 

 I knew then that it was a master piece!)

For one sandwich

1/8-1/4 of an onion, sliced

2 slices of bacon or turkey bacon or ham

2 eggs

1 teaspoon butter
1 slice of  your favorite cheese

Cream cheese or light cream cheese

strawberry jam

bread of your choice, toasted (bread, bagel or English muffin)

black pepper

Slice onion and set aside.

Cut bacon in half 

 Hyrum says that it is important to cook the bacon on medium heat.  

This way you don't set the smoke alarm off.

Add bacon to hot skillet and season with pepper.

fry until golden brown on first side, then turn over, add pepper and fry until the second side is golden brown.

Remove from pan and drain on a paper towel and set aside.

Add onion slices to bacon grease and cook until tender crisp.  Or you can use olive oil or baking spray.

Remove onion from pan and drain on a paper towel.  Set aside.

crack eggs into a bowl and beat until foamy.

Heat a flat bottom skillet, add butter, (or baking spray) let it melt and spread it around the bottom of the pan.

carefully pour the eggs into the pan making sure that it covers the bottom of the pan evenly.

As the eggs begin to set, take a hold of the pan handle and give it a gentle swirling motion so the egg will continue to spread out and cook evenly.  Season with pepper.

When the egg is almost all set (cooked), slip a wide spatula under one side and flip it over to finish cooking the other side. it will only need about 1-2 more minutes to finish cooking.

Remove from heat and fold egg around the cheese slice.  


First lay the cheese in the middle of the egg,

 Fold over one side, bringing the edge to the middle.

 gently pat it down to keep it in place.

 Fold over second side

 Fold ends over

gently press and hold to keep ends in place 
making a perfect egg bundle. 

Toast the bread of your choice.

Now lets make a sandwich!
Spread cream cheese on one side of each of the toast.

Add egg bundle to one half of toast

( Its not your eyes, the picture is out of focus)

Now add the bacon and onions

Spread strawberry jam on the other piece of toast and 

place on top of sandwich.  We used strawberry freezer jam. the recipe is found at this link on this blog...http://nrappleye.blogspot.com/2012/02/strawberry-freezer-jam.html

Cut sandwich in half and serve with fruit and a glass of milk or juice

Thanks Hyrum for an ultimate breakfast party on the taste buds!  

© Nancy Rappleye 2012