Wednesday, July 30, 2008

What's up popcorn?

What's up with the different varieties of popcorn? What's happened to the simple old fashioned regular popcorn that we used to get. I visited a grocery store recently to pick up some for our movie nite. All I wanted was just regular popcorn.
I had to choose from:
1. movie theater butter style
2. blasto butter
3. light butter
4. kettle corn
5. caramel corn
6. unsalted and fat-free
7. 100 calorie
8. organic
9. buttery garlic
10. 94 % fat-free
11. fat-free
12. salt and cracked pepper
13. cheddar popcorn
14. Low-fat and low-sodium

Couldn't they just have one that is labeled "Regular"?

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Vegetable Lasagna recipe



Ingredients:

1. Barilla Lasagna pasta sheets
2. Marinara Sauce - 1 bottle
3. Ricotta cheese,
4. Low-moisture, part-skim mozzarella cheese
5. Parmesan cheese
6. Chopped spinach
7. Zuchini
8. Carrots
9. Summer squash
10. Radish
11. Red/Green/Yellow peppers
12.Onions
13.Garlic
14.Italian Seasoning
15.Olive oil


Making the vegetable filling:
1. Slice up all the vegetables in thin, small strips
2. First fry the onions in olive oil, add garlic and once the onions are done, add all the veggies and cook them.
3. Add italian seasoning and some salt to it and keep is aside

Making the cheese filling:
1. Mix chopped spinach with the ricotta cheese,salt and some pepper and put that aside
2. Mix the mozzarella and parmesan cheese and keep it in a seperate dish.

Layering the lasagna:
1. Boil the lasagna pasta sheets
2. Take a large (9'x13') baking dish and cover the base with some marinara sauce
3. Put a layer pasta sheets
4. Add the veggie filling and top it with some marinara sauce and the mozzarella and parmesan cheese.
5. Put a second layer of pasta sheets
6. Add a spinach ricotta cheese filling
7. Add the third layer of pasta sheet, top it with marinara sauce and mozzarella cheese.
8. Bake it in the oven at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.