This is something that you can make during a weekday if you have everything prepared. I have a homemade meat sauce that I use but you can sure use a can of any pasta sauce, too. I also use those no boil noodles, because, well….they work and taste good, so why should I make my life harder than it needs to be?? So, this is something that tastes great and its easy to throw together.
Recipe:
4 cups Italian Meat Sauce (see recipe) OR 1.5 jars of any pasta sauce
1 Pkg no-boil lasagna noodles
1 Pkg sliced mushrooms
2 cans artichoke hearts, rinsed and cut into 1/8 pieces
1 ½ pkg feta cheese, crumbled (try any flavor you think would be good)
½ jar Calamata (Greek) olives, pitted and halved
In a baking dish, put a little sauce on the bottom and then a layer of noodles. Layer more sauce, mushrooms, artichoke hearts, olives and feta cheese. Do this with three layers. Cover the casserole or seal the aluminum foil and bake on 400 degrees for 35 minutes.
Italian Pasta Sauce
This is a Saturday or Sunday thing where you let it simmer in the ole crockpot for all day long. Wonderful flavor, and you have a sauce ready for lasagna that night, plus another container that you can throw in the freezer for another dish later.
Recipe:
1-2 Tbsp minced garlic
½ onion, diced
1 Ib hamburger
1 lb Italian pork sausage
1 Tbsp olive oil
6 dashes Tabasco sauce (omit if you don’t want the spicy kick)
2 large cans crushed tomatoes (32 oz??…can’t remember the oz, but they are the big ones)
1 can diced tomatoes
1-2 Tbsp Sugar
1 tsp Pepper
1 TBSP Italian seasoning
1 TBSP dried parsley
1 TBSP dried basil
1 tsp Garlic salt
In a large sauce pan heat the oil. Sauté garlic and onion. Add pork and hamburger. Cook until done. Put all ingredients in a crock pot and simmer for 6 hours or so on low.
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