Hey Guys!
It's been gorgeous today. Sunny and warm, and snow on the ground. Don't you wish you were here? No seriously. Wanna' visit? We have sleds!
I'm attaching a picture of Rob's first sourdough attempt. He's been having a blast with this project. I can't wait until we have fresh sourdough in the house.
No news to share here, but in the spirit of the Blog, I'll post a recipe.
White Lasagna
1 pkg (10 oz) frozen chopped spinach
1 pound uncooked ground turkey
1 jar (10 oz) pesto sauce
1 cup frozen chopped onion
1 large egg
1 container (15 oz) ricotta cheese
1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
cooking spray
2 jars (16 oz each) of four-cheese Alfredo pasta sauce (Classico is a good brand)
1 box of no-boil lasagna sheets (Barilla)
1 pkg (16 oz) shredded mozzarella cheese
1. heat spinach in microwave for 6 to 8 minutes. Drain. Let stand until cool. Squeeze out excess liquid.
2. Brown the turkey and drain the fat. Stir pesto and onions into cooked turkey.
3. In medium bowl, beat egg. Stir in ricotta cheese, Parmesan cheese, and spinach until combined.
4. Coat slow cooker with cooking spray. Put a layer of Alfredo sauce into bottom of cooker. Put layer of noodles (break to fit) on top of sauce. Put ricotta cheese mixture on top of noodles. Put layer of turkey on next. Put Mozzarella cheese on top of turkey layer. Put Alfredo sauce on top of Mozzarella cheese, and start layers all over again, twice. You should end up with 3 layers of noodles in the end. Put sauce on top of last noodle layer (no-boil lasagna sheets must be moist to cook).
5. Cover and slow cook on Low for 4 hours (or until top noodles are tender).
6. Turn off slow cooker, sprinkle mozzarella cheese on top before serving. It'll melt.
You can also cook this in the oven, like a normal lasagna dish. Just put it in a big lasagna dish, cover it with foil, and cook it for an hour. Take cover off, top with cheese, and cook for 5 more minutes.
Hope you like this dish. It's pretty good, and actually pretty easy.
Love,
Christy
8 comments:
Yum! A recipe! I might have to make this next week. I'll have to give it a thorough review and see if it's going to be a weekday meal or a weekend one. Then again, Stephen might revolt against a Lasagna that doesn't have red sauce. You do know about his insane obsession with red sauce, right? He drinks it like it's his job...
Okay, I'll await others to comment before I go posting on top of yours (I want Rob's dorky picture to have some time on the "front page"). But I have some fun stuff I can post- and probably at least one recipe.
Chrsity- You might have to give us an online listing of all the foods you can't eat so we can send you recipes you can actually make and enjoy!
Well, I have to say that at least this is a way for us to keep in touch with you and Stephen. While there not too many overly exciting in our lives (work, play with Katie, tend to Katie, eat, sleep, start over), we are throughly enjoying and glad to be able to keep you guys up to speed on it.
Okay- now that I have responders, I'm a little obsessed (checking every hour or so)!
And I totally agree that despite the fact that we are quite boring ourselves, this will be a fun way of sharing the mundane!
So please send me your address because I bought your First-Posting-(other than Melissa & Stephen)-Prize and I'm excited to send it to you.
And to the rest of the family- I hope you read this (soon, preferably) and are filled with remorse and jealousy over not logging on sooner...
Dear Obsessed in Atlanta,
Would have checked and responded sooner, but we were on a family adventure to dinner at this little Chinese place at the bottom of the hill in our neighborhood. Great Chinese food - Zagats loves them. Was hoping to make it a romantic dinner for Chris and me after her spa day (Christmas present), but our #1 babysitter ended up going up to Vermont to snowboard for the day with her friends. There truly are worse places to live. Anyway, we still wanted to go out to dinner, so we took Katie to this place. Despite going through "that age", she was very good outside of one outburst. All the waiters "roved" her. Seriously, they said so (with exact pronunciation) several times. That being a long standing amongst many of our Asian friends, Christy and I got a kick out of it. "Mama" is now reading bed time stories to The Bug, who is pooped even though she took a three-and-a-half hour nap this afetrnoon after a big Day With Dad.
Final note - I've been meaning to tell you and Stephen about this new show on Food Network that we love. It's called Jamie at Home. We typically enjoy the Food Porn, but I have to say that this currently is the best show on telivision right now (especially with the writer's strike). The guy is a Brit who is apparently a very well-trained chef, but the show is him cooking around his house with ingrediaents mostly from his own garden (no fancy done-up kitchen set here, the places he cooks look like the shed in back of his house and his outdoor kitchen which is a big butcher block and wood-fired brick oven on his back patio). He is hilarious. He's like this British hippy who knows how to make great "rustic" dishes, and he's hilarious wihtout trying to be funny. Every time we watch the show, Christy and I think of Stephen for some reason. It's worth some space on your Tivo.
Hope all is well. Sounds like you guys got some winter weather - you bunch of wannabe's.
Well I just got done checking out your prize for being "first!" and I'm totally jealous of it. Still not really sure why I just didn't post first so I'd get a prize, oh well. We'll have to make sure we check out that show since we will be making the motion in our next Homeowners Meeting to put a garden on the roof. Sounds pretty cool huh...garden on the roof. HA!
Anyways, we're both recovering from the 2nd Annual Terrapin Wake-n-Bake Off, which was last night. Read-Ton's of desserts baked with beer and many beers to accompany them. The winner (which to my chagrin, was not actually "baked" as it should have been) was a "Beerimisue" which was put into giant beer mugs, topped with whipped cream, and looked just like a real beer. Very cool event and a real fun time with tons of sweets including my wife's Stout Cheesecake Brownies and her Mom's Killer Stout Coffee Cake. YUM!!!
We have successfully survived Winter Storm '08 after 2 days of snow last week!! And now it's time for me to go dye my mustache green, as today is the day of judgment, and I'm really looking for any help I can get! You guys had better get that address to us soon, or I'll swipe this prize for good!
I will definitely set the Tivo for Jamie at Home. We're pretty desperate for some decent television. We've been watching some American Gladiators (indulge, it's totally worth it). In fact this morning in a dream-like state, I had the thought that we should push our presidential candidates through the Eliminator instead of all these caucuses and primaries. Good idea, no?
And I also highly recommend Rock of Love with Brett Michaels. It's Skank-a-Riffic.
But our biggest anticipation is the return of Lost! A week from Thursday. You should check out abc.com because they have some interesting "Missing Pieces" shorts that give some 2-3 minute stories that don't affect the plot, but do fill in that void for Lost in your heart. They also have an everything-you-need-to-know video about the three seasons that is only 8 minutes long- highly amusing.
Okay, I won't drone on. Here's hoping some other family members join this blog so it won't be reduced to "Thoughts on Lost" blog in ten days...
Deleted post with address in it because Christy saw a news story about sickos who search these blogs for this kind of info (videos of Katie, address...). That sucks. Be mindful.
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