Rigatoni marinara with a scoop of fresh ricotta tonight.

That is one of my favorites. Yum.

We're having roast beef, and I have to go make the brown gravy now. I like making brown gravy.

I made baked pork chops,apple sas(My Aunt Myrle called apple sauce apple sas),corn,mash taters.

Yeah, mine too. But they blow me RIGHT UP!!

I bought a pair of jeans last week, regular cut with a 32 waist. It took me forever to get back to a 32 after I was on Prednisone last year. Anyway, I had to take them off right after dinner. One lousy bowl of macaroni and I could barely button them.

Oatmeal, fruit, fish and salad tomorrow.

You always make me laugh.

Late shift today,so late home.

Take out pizza it will be then!

Lasagna.

I ate to much the top button on my jeans had to come unbuttoned.

London broil with mushrooms, buttered string beans, baked potatoes, salad and applesauce.

Mignon, what kind of noodles do you use for your lasagna? I prefer fresh over boxed because the boxed are too thick for my taste, but some people swear by them.

PB, did you cook outside tonight? It's so awful here, between the wind and the rain.

I used the box kind SB. I don't know how to make any kind of noodles.
But I got the kind you don't have to boil first.

Yeah, I did. It's miserable here too. But it didn't really start coming down until after I was finished cooking.

It's poured on and off all day here. It's been miserable. My stupid dog ran away and we were all running around the neighborhood in the wind and rain looking for her.

Mig, I have a friend who bought the Barilla ones that you don't have to cook first and she said that they were very good. Do you put meat in your lasagna? I just use sauce and cheese, and serve the meatballs and stuff on the side. I don't like meat in my lasagna, but lots of people do.

Just like us, Babe!

We NEVER put meat in the lasagne. Our thinking was always that with so much meat in the gravy, it's better just served on the side.

That's so funny, because when I mentioned it to the girls in the office, they looked at me like I had 12 heads. They said that it wasn't really lasagna without the meat!

Yeah I put meat in the sauce. Always have but I think I will try it the next time I make it with out it. Good advice. I hope you found your dog.

Yes, and now she's on the couch next to me, thanks. She got out from under the fence and was taking a little tour of the neighborhood.

It's weird, isn't it, how you get used to certain things? One person's lasagna is not how someone else will eat it.

I guess it is how you are taught. I'm glad you got the puppy back.

I have to watch Sampson when he goes out in the backyard. He knows how to climb the fence.

Eating lasagna without meat is like eating a steak RARE.

There really IS no other way. You've never tasted my lasagna, but I'll be happy to make it for you. You'll love it, trust me.

Ok lets have a BB cook-off.

SC will make his lasagna with meat
SB will make her meatless lasagna

Mignon will be the judge.

Probably unfair, Mig.

I, like you, use the pre-cooked noodles. I also use jarred sauce. I'm sure SB's is better, but I like my lasagna with lots of meat.

Not unfair at all. I'm fair and balanced.

This from someone who freaks out when her corn touches her mashed potatoes??

What brand SC?

I don't care how "good" people tell me jarred sauce has become. I can't eat it. And I haven't tried it in years, so it's not like I know what it tastes like, either, but it's the idea of it.

Geez, jarred meat sauce. That's an INFAMIA!!!!!

C'mon SC. It doesn't take much to make a homemade meat sauce.

Just as you buy a bottle of sauce, you can buy a nice can of Tuttorusso tomato sauce.
Cut up some fresh garlic and onions. Warm up your pot and coat the bottom of it with some olive oil. Take a combination of fresh chopmeat and fresh ground sausage and brown it in the hot oil. Then add some grated cheese, some basil, salt, pepper, oregeano, and parsley. Stir making sure that your garlic and onions dont't burn. Then add your can of tuttorusso tomato sauce. Add a tad of sugar and a bit more grated cheese. Wisk / stir it. Taste it from time to time adding any of the spices mentioned as needed, according to your taste. Let cook for a few hours. DO NOT cover it completely but instead partially cover the pot while it is simmering.

If you want, make a large batch and refrigerate some of it for another night.


And when you buy the Tuttorusso canned tomatoes, they have to be the ones with the basil. Not the paste!



I promise that you'll never eat that jarred shit ever again in your life.

There's a HUGE market for jarred sauces and I just don't understand it. When the Tuttorosso tomatoes are on sale, you can get them for like 80 cents a can. You buy a dozen cans, put them under the sink, and they keep pretty much forever. Even if you're cooking for one, you just make a can at a time. Even a thirty minute marinara sauce is heads and shoulders better than anything you'll get out of a jar.

Can't you freeze it as well?

What if they don't sell Tuttorosso tomatoes cans here?

Leftover lasagna with the meat and jarred sauce.