On Friday we had our neighbor, Mr. Schenck, over for dinner. We all really love him as he is like a grandpa to us! :) For dinner I planned for us to have lasagna, fried green beans, peas and breadsticks! When I twittered what I was doing, SisterLisa asked me what I used and such. So I thought maybe y'all would like to know my lasagna recipe, and the recipe for breadsticks too!
Lasagna
Boil water for lasagna noodles. I used two boxes of organic lasagna noodles and put them in when the water was boiling. For the sauce you will need:
1 28oz. can of organic whole tomatoes
1 16oz. can of organic diced tomatoes
1 clove of organic garlic
1 half of organic onion
Put all those in your food processor til it is chopped finely and mixed well. Put into pan. I rinsed out the food processor cup with water as well as the tomato cans into the pan. It is going to be really watery, so you want to bring to a boil and cover so some of the water will vaporize out! Boil for about an hour. Brown hamburger. I used 2# for 12 people. Put meat in sauce. If it starts getting "dry", put some water in and turn to low. I used a wok pan for the sauce and it was full! you need to have a full pan.
Shred some provolone or mozzarella cheese about 1 1/2# and mix with 24oz of cottage cheese. Don't mix all the provolone with the cottage cheese because you will need some to top the dish with. By now your noodles should be done, your sauce is done, and your cheese mixture is ready. Your layers will want to go like this: sauce, noodles, cheese, sauce, noodles, cheese, and so on til your pan is full. After you get all your layers on, top it with some provolone and bake at 400' til the cheese on top is brown!
Now the Breadsticks recipe comes from the West ladies of Homestead Blessings.
You will need:
2 1/2 cups of flour
1 tbsp yeast
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp honey
1 cup warm water
4 tbsp olive oil
mix dry ingredients first, then add rest of ingredients. Mix them at a nice pace, then knead with hands til soft. Let rest for 10min, knead again for about 5min. Preheat oven to 400'. Flour your hands lightly, then take a small ball of dough and roll it between your hands til you get a "stick" of dough. Keep doing that with all your dough. Let rest for about 5min. The first ones you did don't have to rest because they have been resting while you have been rolling your other ones. Lay on your stoneware. Melt some butter, olive oil, and fresh garlic in pan. Don't boil, just melt. Then brush on top of breadsticks. Salt them and bake them for 15min.
They will come out a lovely brown that is so soft!
Fried Green Beans
You need:
1 bag of frozen green beans. We don't have any fresh green beans planted and there is really no place to buy any around our area, so we just use frozen, which are MUCH better than canned! bleh!
1/2 stick of unsalted butter.
4 slices of turkey bacon. We do not eat pork at all, so we use turkey or beef.
1/2 onion. We use organic yellow onions.
1 iron skillet. I love cooking in an iron skillet because it puts iron in your food and gives a different flavor too!
Pour the green beans into the skillet, cook til thawed. No water. When they started to get brown, add butter and fry them til they are a little crunchy and brown.
Then add the bacon and onions and cook til soft. I like them when they are a dark brown. I like to add a little salt to mine.
(I did use all organics though in all the recipes, even though I didn't put it on there!)
So that would be dinner! It was really good and I want some right now! :) I love lasagna! It is one of my favorite dishes!
Let me know if you make this and what you did, and if you like it! ;)
Love, Prayers and Blessings,
Thanks for stopping by “Daily” at the “Planet”!!
©AmandaDixon2008
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