Lasagna

Lasagna is one of those things that everyone seems to like and everyone has their favorite way to put it together.  There are so many options for what you can put into a lasagna - different types of sauce, hamburger, sausage,  veggies, ricotta cheese, cottage cheese - the list is endless.  This is my mom's recipe and therefore my favorite.  My sauce is a little sweet (and it's also basically the same sauce that I used to make spaghetti) and I prefer ricotta cheese rather than cottage cheese but it's a recipe that I think most anyone would like.  This recipe is very versatile so feel free to add whatever you like.  I've added onion and mushrooms to the sauce in the past, which works well.  You could also sub half the hamburger for sausage, which I think would be amazing.

Petsitting & Chicken Spaghetti

I pet-sat two dogs - Cindy the papillion and Cyrus the bichon frise - for someone at work a few weekends ago.  I love animals and miss Toby so being able to spend sometime around other little dogs was great.  They were both very sweet and very well behaved.  Cindy reminded me a lot of Rachel's dog Pacey and Cyrus reminded me of my mom's dog Barkley (when he's being sweet).

                                     

 

Another plus to petsitting was being able to do a little bit of cooking in her kitchen, yay!  I miss cooking (and baking).  A lot.  Not having all my kitchen tools limited what I was able to cook so I decided on something that was easy, required few ingredients, and would reheat well.  Chicken spaghetti!  I love chicken spaghetti.  It's something that my mom made often growing up so it's really comfort food for me.  Most people aren't really sure what I'm talking about when I say chicken spaghetti but once I describe what is in it, it sounds more familiar.  It's noodles and chicken and cheese.  Who could not like that :)

 

Yes, that is a biscuit in the background.  A home made biscuit.  It wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be with few tools and I promise to post the recipe later!