RECIPE: Lazy Lasagna

This recipe is a lot like my Baked Rotini. I actually just modified it to be even easier...thus the name. ;) The amounts in this recipe actually fill both of these Pyrex baking dishes. I bake the small one the first night and then I put the big pan in the refrigerator and bake it for leftovers. You could adjust the ingredients to fit in one pan, though. It's also a great option for something like meal trains when you're wanting to provide a meal for someone. All they have to do is heat it up in the oven until the cheese melts. I forgot to take a picture, so I'll have to do that next time. :P 

Lazy Lasagna 

Ingredients:

1 lb ground beef
24 oz sour cream
2 cup mozzarella cheese
1 cup grated parmesan
12oz mini bow-tie (farfalle) pasta
1 jar Prego Roasted Garlic & Herb
1 jar Prego Fresh Musroom
4 cups shredded Italian blend cheese 

Directions: 

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. 
2. Prepare pasta according to package.
3. Brown hamburger and drain. Return to pan and mix with both jars of spaghetti sauce.
4. In a mixing bowl combine sour cream, mozzarella, and parmesan.
5. In the baking dish (es), spread a layer of meat sauce along the bottom of the pan. 
6. Spread all the cooked pasta over the meat sauce in the pan. 
7. Spread the sour cream and cheese mixture over the pasta. I spoon into dollops and then spread it out with a spatula. 
8. Pour the rest of the meat sauce over the sour cream and cheese mixture. Carefully spread it out with a spatula so it covers the entire pan. 
9. Sprinkle the Italian blend shredded cheese over the top. 
10. Bake for 20-30 minutes or until cheese on top is melted. 

Stormy May Weather

So far May has been pretty stormy. It hasn't been bad...just some rain, thunder and lightning, and a little bit of wind. We were actually in a "particularly dangerous situation" tornado watch yesterday as they were predicting large hail and tornados in our area. Some schools and businesses in our area even closed early because the PDS is generally a rare situation. But...we didn't even get any rain except for misty sprinkles off and on throughout the day. They kept pushing back the start time...first 4pm, then 6pm...but the line of storms split as they came near us so it all was all to the north and south of us moving northeast. Lots of people were like, "but it could still happen!" I mean, anything COULD happen...but it was highly unlikely since the line of storms had already moved past us. 

Honestly...it happens a lot. There are legends that say it's because of the rivers and/or the Native Americans originally here which have protected the area...but I don't really know much about it. But 9/10 times whenever they predict any kind of really bad weather (snow, tornados, whatever), it doesn't happen anywhere near as bad as what they were predicting. That's not to say it can't happen...but the number of times we've watched a storm die out before it got here or went around us has been VERY frequent. In the last 10+ years that I've lived here with Johnny...I only remember hearing the tornado sirens going off twice, I think. They used to go off all the time when I was a kid...but that's because they would sound if there was a tornado anywhere in the county so people started largely ignoring the sirens because it didn't mean there was an actual threat in their immediate area. I don't remember when they made the decision to make them more area-specific, but I think it was a good idea. 

The weather caused some issues with air travel. Johnny's brother was in town for his high school reunion. He'd stopped by on Sunday to hang out for a little while and pick up a few things for their mom. Then that evening, they went out to eat at a sports bar in town. They had a really good time. But his brother's flight ended up being delayed and then finally canceled. The passengers were put up in a hotel overnight, but then the flight today was canceled and there were issues with making the connecting flight. So it was all a mess.  

In other news, I made it to 750 sales in my Etsy shop exactly 2 weeks after I'd hit 700 sales! :) I'm pleased with the growth of my shop...especially when compared to last year. It's also pretty good considering I don't do a whole lot of promoting of my shop. Every once in awhile I post a TikTok video if I think about it. I do post comments sometimes when there's a post in the Ehlers-Danlos Memes FB group that matches pretty close with one of my stickers. Most of my traffic (almost 90% this year and 75% last year) comes directly from Etsy searches and SEO. 

That's about all I can think of for now. This week seems to be going by SO slow! I'm ready for the weekend! :P