Lasagna

Lasagna is one one my favourite pasta (also Garfield's favourite). We first made this dish when I had too many tomatoes and I didn't know what to do with them. So we learned to keep and freeze my garden tomatoes and make this delicious dish whenever we want. This is a very good meal as it freezes well and you can take it out and eat whenever you don't feel like cooking. Goes well with salad (I will provide the recipe the next time).

Here's the recipe;

1lb ground beef (or ground turkey)

2x 28 oz canned tomatoes ( or fresh ones and cut into cubes)

7.5 oz tomato sauce

1/4 tsp garlic salt

1 packet spaghetti sauce mix

1 cup cottage cheese

1 egg

1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese

6 oz mozzarella cheese, sliced

8 oz wide lasagna noodles raw

1) Brown beef in frying pan. Break up any lumps.
2) Add tomatoes, sauce, garlic, and spaghetti sauce mix. Bring to boil and simmer slowly for 10 minutes. Put some of this on bottom of 9 x 13 in. (22 x 33) cm pan - just enough to keep noodles from resting on bottom of pan.
3) In small mixing bowl mix cottage cheese, egg and parmesan together well.

4) Assemble:
1. Bit of meat sauce
2. Layer of raw noodles
3. One-third of meat sauce
4. Half of cottage cheese mixture
5. Layer of mozzarella cheese
6. Layer of raw noodles
7. One-third of meat sauce
8. One-half cottage cheese mixture
9. One-third of meat sauce
10. All mozzarella cheese

4) Cover tightly with foil. Bake in 350°F (180°C) oven for 1 hour or more until noodles are tender.
5) Let stand for 10 minutes before serving. Serves 8 generously or 12 average.