Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, traditional lasagna. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Traditional Lasagna is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Traditional Lasagna is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have traditional lasagna using 20 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Traditional Lasagna:
- Get Meat sauce
- Make ready 1 lb ground beef
- Make ready 3/4 lb bulk pork sausage (I used garlic bulk sausage)
- Take 3 can tomato sauce (8 oz EACH)
- Get 3 can tomato paste (6oz EACH)
- Get 2 clove garlic, minced
- Take 2 tsp sugar
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Take 1 tsp Italian seasoning
- Make ready 1/2 tsp pepper
- Prepare Cheese mixture
- Take 3 eggs
- Make ready 3 tbsp minced fresh parsley (I used 1 tbl spoon dried)
- Make ready 3 cup small-curd cottage cheese/ 24 oz. (This is where I changed it up a bit, I used 16 oz of cottage cheese, and 15 oz of ricotta.)
- Get 1 packages ricotta cheese / 8oz. (As stated above, I used 15 oz of ricotta)
- Prepare 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
- Get Layers
- Take 9 Lasagna noodles, cooked and drained (I always make a few extra, just in case some break while cooking)
- Take 6 slice provolone cheese
- Take 3 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
Steps to make Traditional Lasagna:
- In a large skillet, cook beef and pork over medium heat until no longer pink, drain.
- Boil salted water, add noodles, cook till aldente, turn off heat, keep in pot until assembling
- Add tomato sauce, tomato paste, garlic, sugar, salt, Italian seasoning, and pepper. Bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat, simmer, uncovered for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. (This thickened up for me in no more then 30 minutes, so be sure to watch it! )
- Now preheat oven to 375°F
- In a large bowl, combine eggs, parsley, cottage cheese, ricotta cheese and parmesan cheese.
- Spread 1 cup of meat sauce in an UNgreased 13x9x2 inch baking dish.
- Layer with 3 noodles, provolone cheese, 2 cups of cheese mixture, 1 cup of shredded mozzarella cheese.
- Layer 3 noodles, 2 cups of meat sauce, remaining cheese mixture, and 1 cup mozzarella cheese.
- Top with the 3 remaining noodles, meat sauce, and mozzarella cheese. (Dish will be full!)
- Cover with tin foil (I lightly spray the "touching side" with Pam so the cheese doesn't stick to the foil when removed)
- Bake at 375°F for 50 minutes. Uncover, and bake 20 minutes longer, or until heated through. Let stand for 15 minutes (I always wait about 30 minutes, just to insure all the layers won't spill out when cut)
Turn to Food to Improve Your Mood
Most of us think that comfort foods are terrible for us and that we need to stay away from them. At times, if your comfort food is essentially candy or other junk foods, this holds true. Otherwise, comfort foods may be super nutritious and good for you. There are some foods that, when you eat them, may improve your mood. If you feel a little bit down and you need an emotional pick me up, try several of these.
Eggs, believe it or not, can be truly terrific at beating back depression. Just make sure that you don’t throw away the yolk. The yolk is the part of the egg that is the most important in terms of helping raise your mood. Eggs, the egg yolks in particular, are rich in B vitamins. These B vitamins are terrific for helping to boost your mood. This is because they help improve the function of your neural transmitters, the components of your brain that affect your mood. Try eating an egg and cheer up!
Put together some trail mix of nuts or seeds. Your mood can be raised by eating peanuts, almonds, cashews, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and other types of nuts. This is possible since these foods have a bunch of magnesium which promotes your production of serotonin. Serotonin is the “feel good” natural substance that dictates to your brain how you feel all the time. The higher your levels of serotonin, the more pleasant you are going to feel. Not just that, nuts, particularly, are a fantastic protein food source.
Cold water fish are great if you want to feel happier. Tuna, trout, mackerel, herring and wild salmon are all full of omega-3 fats and DHA. Omega-3 fatty acids and DHA are two things that promote the quality and the function of your brain’s grey matter. It’s true: eating a tuna fish sandwich can actually help you fight back depression.
Grains can be great for fighting a bad mood. Barley, quinoa, millet, teff, etc are all good for helping you be in a happier state of mind. They help you feel full as well which can really help to make your mood better. Feeling hungry can actually bring you down! The reason these grains are so great for your mood is that they are not hard to digest. They are easier to digest than other foods which helps kick up your blood sugar levels and that, in turn, improves your mood.
Your mood could really be helped by green tea. You were just expecting to read that in this article, weren’t you? Green tea is loaded with an amino acid known as L-theanine. Studies have found that this particular amino acid can actually induce brain waves. This helps improve your mental focus while relaxing the rest of your body. You were already aware that green tea could help you be so much healthier. And now you are aware that it can help improve your mood as well!
As you can see, you don’t need to consume all that junk food when you want to feel better! Try some of these instead!
