Lately some of our meals have been fantastic. Many have been saved in my new meal planning notebook. After putting this one off for a while I finally prepared this slow cooker lasagna on the weekend. The slow cooker recipes have been calling my name but so many of them cook for only 5 to 6 hours.
That just doesn't work when we are gone for at least 9 hours. Have you ever come home to something overcooked in a crock pot? It's awful because you planned on that being dinner.
So, I decided I wanted to make this spinach mushroom lasagna and just planned it for a weekend. That way we had leftovers for Monday.
It was great. Ooey, cheesy, the noddles were cooked just perfectly.
I'm feeling exceptionally lazy so I just took a snap of the recipe from my notebook. If we find a recipe we want to include in regular meal rotations I slide it into a plastic sleeve and add it to my growing collection. The plastic protection sleeve is great for spills, you can just wipe them off.
I leave you with a photo of the moon on a warm November afternoon. I couldn't get my phone out in time to capture the jet as it seemed to pass in front of the moon.
Hopefully everyone will enjoy Thanksgiving and will share the photos and recipes at Beth Fish Reads Weekend Cooking series.
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I do the same thing with "keeper" recipes and plastic sleeves. Your lasagna looks delicious... have always wanted to try it in the crockpot. Happy Thanksgiving!
ReplyDeleteHi Tina, looking forward to seeing this over at Food on Friday: Pasta. Wishing you a lovely weekend. Cheers from Carole's chatter
ReplyDeleteThank you, JoAnn, the sleeves are quite useful for all the mess I make when prepping!
ReplyDeleteVicki, that set dog rules this house. As it should be. This realize is good, hope you like it.
Carole, I link d up, I liked all those pasta recipes. Mmmm
Lasagne is a great weekend dish. I managed to set up computer files for my recipes a long time ago, and have moved them from one computer or tablet to the next whenever I changed devices. One of the recipes for Thanksgiving dinner has been floating around in my computer since the 90s.
ReplyDeletebest... mae at maefood.blogspot.com
That's a great idea, Mae. I usually rely on paper copies but storing them electronically is great.
ReplyDeleteI like that sleeve idea! My to-try recipes are also in a binder, but not protected.
ReplyDeleteThe lasagna looks great. Because I work at home, I can use my crockpot during the week, but getting everything going at lunchtime. I know exactly what you mean about overcooked slow cooker meals.
The lasagna looks great. Love using the slow cooker and always nice to find new recipes for it. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteMy recipes are mostly computer files now, but I still have a big plastic box of clipped ones. My mom liked to make a similar spinach lasagna, and it was really good. I haven't made it in years.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing worse than coming home to overcooked food. I am retiring in March 2017 and so looking forward to it. We are going out early, there is not enough time left otherwise......
ReplyDeleteBFR, if I worked at home, or lived closer from work, I would use the slow cooker much more. I try and make this on Sunday's so we have it for leftovers Monday. Or lunch.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jama, Claudia & Melynda !
I've been looking for some new vegetarian recipes and in a slow cooker too just makes this perfect.
ReplyDeleteWe have just bought a new slow cooker (and donated the older one). The new one is also a pressure cooker and it's fab. I've never thought of making lasagne in it ... one to try!
ReplyDeleteDiane, we have lost so much weight eating more vegetarian meals and the meals are tasty too. This one is a good one if you don't have to be gone all day.
ReplyDeleteJo, I have never heard of a slow cooker and pressure cooker combo, that's brilliant. I planned to mKe butternut squash soup last night but got too late a start.
Don't post this - the new pressure / slow cooker - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00OP26T4K/ref=twister_B01KHYRIEO?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
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