QuiltingNinaSue

Thank you, Janie, for sharing your MB blocks. And welcome back to the PC site. I missed you. More snow makes things outside difficult, but maybe allows more time for quilting ( and getting cozy and warm inside ).

Jan Rn, you are right that not too many are posting pictures of their MBs. Some have stated on the site that they are in a box in their closet (MBs are) becoming friends with one another, and they will not post until they are all together in one piece quilt hanging. And I guess that is their right to post or not to post with two more MBs to go, but we can appreciate those who do post so we may all enjoy them together. JanRN, although I looked at postings I failed to find your group of MBs...

And QuiltE, I hope you do receive your package soon, 'cause it is overdue...stay warm there and safe.

Anael

Janie, the RoseBud block is gorgeous! GrannyQ did a great job.

JeanieG

I'm guilty too, I just finished ____ MB yesterday. It will go out in the mail on Monday. So sorry to be so late.

Hi Janie, welcome back!

Jan - Love Lasagna - bet yours is spectacular! It takes so long to make, I usually don't make it any more.

Anael

Jeanie..........crockpot I heard you can use it for lasagna as well!

JeanieG

Anael, there are some methods where you don't have to pre-cook the lasagna noodles too! I have a recipe that this Italian gal gave me probably 40 years ago. The sauce is from scratch, and you use ricotta cheese, mixed with an egg which makes it so fluffy and beautiful! Yummy!!!

QuiltingNinaSue

JeanieG, are you willing to share the recipe that is yummmy?

Anael

I never pre-cook the lasagna noodles. Most of the time I don't make the sauce from scratch but I should and I will but not this year

janRN

Anael, I'm impressed with your DJ blocks! The number of them is mind-boggling; and to think I'm whining about them and I've only done 6!!!! Very pretty.

Janie, that's a beautiful block from GrannyQ and your grouping looks awesome.

Yes, I'm one that hasn't posted a group pic of my MBs but I have posted individually when rec'd. I don't have an area to lay them out right now (we have blockades up allover the house to keep Patches off wood floors, off the steps, away from the couch & love seat, etc.) I have about 3 feet to walk thru any where in my house. It's a PITA but he's worth it.

Jeanie, I use the lasagne noodles that don't need pre-cooked. I make my spaghetti sauce and assemble the lasagne before I let the sauce cook down and thicken. I've never been able to tell the difference between pre-cooked noodles and not pre-cooked. QNS, the recipe on the lasagne noodles from Barilla is the one I use, and like Jeanie's calls for ricotta cheese, 2 eggs, Mozarella cheese and Parmesan cheese mixed, then browned ground beef. All layered together--yum!

QuiltE

JanieW ... so good to see you back and now time for you to have that long winter's nap to recover! I'm thinking your DDIL must be coming along nicely, or else you would not be back home.

JanieW and GrannyQ .. great block! I always like that block and the fabrics you have chosen work well with it. You had a very good reason for yours not being posted for us.

Anael ... so talented with your DJ and Paint display! I have no clue how to do that! I spotted my favourite polka dotted one! Oh yes, you can use your crock for lasagna .... and then I freeze the surplus in single portions!

JanRN ... so does that inspire you to plug on with DJ ... I think we can both pick out a lot of non-appliques and y's!

JeanieG ... I learned years ago, that the best lasagna was a frozen store bought! However, I do have a crockpot one that I quite like ... and not quite so hard work as the traditional ones!

QNSue ... the mail takes longer at this time of the year, especially with the extra days the Post Office is closed. In JanRNs defence, I believe that she did post every block as she received it. For some, it is not so easy to do the group shot because of space. Please be patient! Many of us kept a file of the blocks, and added each new block, so we could see the previous ones together. It has been very helpful to me when I went to make a MB, to try to coordinate mine with the ones each person already had received ... I did not need the group shot.

Just did tree removal ...... had some large branches some down today, right where I pull in with my truck, and then back into the garage. Plus, needed to be removed before a snowfall, and my neigbhour came with the tractor and snowblower. Now, oh my aching back!

JeanieG

QNS - Here is the recipe - so easy to copy and paste here since I have all the recipes in Living Cookbook. Laughed when I looked at this recipe - remember when all the tomato sauce was in 8 oz. cans?


Lasagna

2 28 oz tomatoes, italian style
4 8 oz tomato sauce
2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
3 tsp oregano
2 tsp onion salt
2 cups onion, minced
2 ea garlic cloves
2 lbs ground beef
1/2 tsp basil
2 Tbs parsley
3 ea bay leaf
1 lb lasagna noodle
2 lbs ricotta cheese
1 ea egg
1/2 cup milk
1 lb jack cheese
1 cup parmesan cheese

1. Combine first six ingredients. Simmer uncovered. Sauté in skillet onion, garlic in oil until light brown. Add ground beef and next two ingredients and cook until meat looses red color, add tomato sauce and simmer 2 1/2 hours or till thick.

2. Cook lasagna as package directs. Drain and separate noodles.

3. Mix ricotta with 1 egg and 1/3 to 1/2 cup milk until mixture is creamy. Salt generously and add more milk if needed.

4. Put a few spoonfuls of sauce in large baking dish, layer with noodles, ricotta mixture, jack and parmesan cheese. Repeat layers to fill pan.

5. Bake at 350º for 1 hour.