Monday, April 11, 2011

little susie homemaker

Heeelllloooo & happy Monday! Let's make this a good week, mkay?

My weekend was just absolutely fantastic! I spent most of it cleaning and cooking... but loved every minute of it. What's gotten into me?!

After my usual Saturday morning spent on homework, I decided to make some to-die-for cupcakes, which I will share with you guys at a later time! ;-) (I've got to keep you coming back, even if it takes bribing you with dessert!)

Raymond and I had a great Saturday evening; consisting of dinner out and a movie double-date with some friends at the Alamo Draft House. While I was rooting to see Source Code, the boys wanted to see Sucker Punch. Needless to say, I was overruled. Fortunately, I was extremely pleased with the decision, because this movie was awesome! I had seen the previews a few times, but I guess I never really payed much attention to them, because going into the theater I had no idea what the movie was about. Turns out, it's about this super-hot girl that has to make her escape from a mental institution. The first thing I noticed about the movie was that I love love loved the soundtrack, and will absolutely be downloading it on iTunes! I highly recommend you see this movie!


After sleeping in on Sunday, I spent most of the day cleaning the kitchen, bedroom, and doing laundry-- all while watching a River Monsters marathon with Raymond. Love that show! This left Raymond with a need to fish, so we headed to a near by pond to dip our poles in the water. We didn't catch anything... but it was a very lovely, relaxing evening.

 my honey doin' his thang
 
 pretty pink pole my honey got me


I also got around to making my semi-homemade lasagna yesterday!


I used:
1 tub cottage cheese
1 tub ricotta cheese
3 tbsp. grated parmesean cheese
1 bag mozzarella cheese
1 lb. lean hamburger meat
9 lasagna noodles
1 jar tomato & basil sauce
fresh rosemary
garlic powder
italian spice blend (inc. thyme, basil, oregano, rosemary, and a few other ingredients)
salt and pepper
**all spices used, were measured to my desired taste



 going to make for a delish meal!
  
While the noodles were boiling....

i mixed the cottage, ricotta, parmesean, and spices together 

i then cooked the hburger meat with s&p, garlic powder, and italian spices

add the sauce to the meat to heat

mmm cheesey!!

 layer noodles, cheese mix, mozz. cheese, meat sauce
(repeat 3 times)

top of with the rest of your mozzarella cheese & it's
ready for baking!

**before beginning, smear a bit of the meat sauce on the bottom of the pan to prevent noodle stick-age
**after layering, bake for about 30 min. at 365, reduce heat to 350 and cook for an additional 15 min.

Are you ready for the final result?....

 viola!

 is your mouth watering yet?

I am extremely proud of myself and how well it turned out! I think I asked Raymond about 15 times if he was sure he liked it. (I had to make sure! :-p)

Hope you guys have a good day! I'm gonna go play with this:

"cheeeeeeeeeese"

1 comment:

  1. I Love Lasagna especially with the Cheeeeeeese Kid at the end XOXOXO

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