Apparently, I need to get more creative in my meatless meals, because I'm stuck in a rut of my ricotta-portabello-mushroom mix. However, I tried this as a lasagna and it was DELICIOUS!
I used the Barilla No-Boil Flat noodles, a couple cans of Hunts 4 cheese sauce, and the mixture, layered it up and baked. Served with some cheese bread and a salad and it was perfect.
Recipe:
Mixture:
1 15 oz package of ricotta
2 eggs
couple handfuls of fresh spinach, chopped
8 oz container of portabello mushrooms, chopped
Layers:
Box of No-Boil Flat noodles
Shredded Mozzarella
2 regular sized cans of sauce
I used a tinfoil cake pan, I think it might have been 9x13, but I'm not sure. I dumped about 1/2 a can of the sauce in the bottom, spread evenly then layered my noodles. I don't like my lasagna noodles to over lap, mostly because I think they get chewy, so I just put down three noodles across, then spooned on the ricotta mixture, sprinkled some cheese, poured some sauce, repeat. I did 3 layers, but stopped, mostly because I was afraid of the boiling over the back of the box on the noodles sugguested. I easily could have done another layer or two tho, as when it came out, it was pretty flat still. After the final layer of noodles, I covered it with lots of sauce then some mozarella and shredded parameasean, covered in foil and then baked for about 1/2 hour, then took the foil off and finished until the cheese was browning and bubbling. I had put the cheese bread in when I took the foil off, and I like to bake it for a bit then turn the broiler on to finish it up quicker.
Since I had done the lesser layers, I had all this extra stuff laying around. I decided to go ahead and make a small 8x8 to put in the freezer so that way some nigth we could have another but not have to make it all over agian. On this one, I layered it up to the top, since the noodles fit in nicer and i didn't want to waste any of it. I think in the future, I might just make 2 8x8s each time, but we'll see how that goes.
Other than that, we've been pretty basic here, bbq chicken and baked potatoes last week, this week we've had brown sugar pork chops, twice baked potatoes and a salad one night and the night before we had breaded chicken breasts, sweet potato fries (regular fries for J) and baked beans.
Once we get the propane in, we should be grilling quite a bit, guess we'll see where that leads us!
