A few weeks ago, my good friend Ann stopped in at my house with her family, right in time for Sunday dinner. I had made lasagna earlier in the week, and there was a lot leftover, so I heated it up and fed our company leftovers.....yep, I know, I excel at being a superb hostess! Anyhow, Ann was surprised that I actually made lasagna, and I'm surprised that most people don't. It's so easy....well the way I do it is, anyway. Grandma Ainge taught me to make it when I was young and I've always done it her way, like I said it's fast and easy.
***Lasagna***
Meat (I usually use sausage or ground beef or even a mix of the two).
Sauce (pick a jar of your favorite spaghetti sauce).
Cottage Cheese
Sliced Olives
Cheese, shredded (I usually use a mix of cheddar and mozzarella)
Lasagna Noodles, uncooked
Pour some sauce in the bottom of your 9 x 13 pan, just a bit to cover the bottom. Put a layer of uncooked noodles, break them up if you need to, and piece them in. Spread some cottage cheese on, add more sauce, some meat, olives and a handful of cheese. Add another layer of noodles, and all the other stuff again. Keep layering, the deeper your pan the more layers, finish with a layer of cheese. Cover and bake at 350 for about an hour. Let stand for 5-10 min. before cutting.....Enjoy! Try it and let me know if you like it.
Did anyone notice the shirt Miss Carlie wore on her birthday? Yea, I found this cool re-purposing tutorial here on Make It and Love It, the night before her birthday....hmmm, I have nothing better to do (yea, right) why don't I just sew something up?
So here is what we started with.... two shirts. One Carlie's that still fit, but was a bit short. One mine, that I have always loved the print of, but sadly it's too small (the dryer shrunk it...wink, wink).
A little cutting, a bit of sewing, a bit of un-picking (cause I'm new at this, and I sewed the new sleeve on inside out) and TA-DA!
A perfect for the colder temperatures and long enough to cover Carlie's cute belly shirt! Next, speaking of Carlie's Birthday, remember I said I made Ice Cream Desert for the grown ups? You HAVE to try this....it's a family favorite!
*** Ice Cream Dessert***
3 cups Rice Krispies
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 1/2 cups coconut
1 1/2 cups nuts, chopped
1/2 gallon vanilla ice cream
Melt margarine and brown sugar together until blended. Add other ingredients, Rice Krispies first. Place half the mixture on bottom of 9 x 13 pan. Open ice cream box and cut into fourths (about 1/2 inch thick), place on crumbs. (I take a spoon and run it under hot water then smooth out the lines, but it's not necessary.) Top with remainder of crumbs, pressing them in a bit. Freeze overnight.
Sometimes we add danish desert and strawberries on top, or chocolate syrup drizzels and raspberries, most of the time we just eat it plain......the possibilities are endless and YUMMY!
And last but not least, I've been sewing again and these skirts are adorable and super easy to make!
I cut some fabric strips over a year ago to make Carlie and Tylie skirts.....well, it never happened. The girls grew and the fabric was just sitting around. When I saw this cute tutorial, I knew I could make the strips work and they did! I went to the fabric store yesterday for elastic and all I could see was the many fabric combinations to make some adorable skirts! I'm in love!
