I am in the midwest visiting my family, and its my nephew's birthday this weekend. Instead of the whole family going out for dinner, we decided to save everyone money and have dinner at my sister's house.
no boil noodles in this simple fast lasagna
On short notice, my sister whipped up a simple lasagna using no boil noodles and a jar of good pasta sauce from the store. Good jar of pasta sauce might sound like an oxymoron, but there are some that work fine for what they are, OK?
My sister used Barilla no boil lasagna noodles, and there is a recipe on the back of the box. nice. Some ricotta cheese, an egg, and we have a tray of lasagna in the oven.
For a quick simple dish that feeds everyone, this works great. Some foodie types might roll their eyes at this dish, but I like it and my family does too.
Simple Birthday Dinner is served
Do you have a simple quick meal you put together on short notice? Tell us below.
Tim
My wife has been making this for years and people rave about it. The one thing that makes or breaks it is the sauce. We have found that sauces that don't have sugar or high fructose corn syrup taste more authentic or homemade. The Classico brand is good for this but we recently started using the Hunts Classic Italian line because it tastes the same but costs much less.
Just throw in a colorful tossed salad and some garlic bread and you are eating in style on the cheap!
Ramonita Wharry
So what are you going to do with your chit'lins when butchering time comes?