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Taco Lasagna - only 7 ingredients {The Girl Who Ate Everything} This Taco Lasagna is so easy and freezes well.

Taco Lasagna - only 7 ingredients {The Girl Who Ate Everything}

Only 7 ingredients! I was talking to my sister on the phone the other day and she said, “Geez. You’re such a Pinterest mom.” Her comment spawned from the fact that I had Super Glued some quarters on our sidewalk for April Fool’s Day. Umm…pretty sure that wasn’t on Pinterest. Oh and I put salt in their toothbrushes. I cannot leave the grocery store without forgetting at least one thing on my list. This taco lasagna could not be more simple.

Mix a little ricotta with an egg for your lasagna-ness. Start by layering 4 lasagna noodles. Spread your ricotta mixture over the noodles. Sprinkle a layer of taco meat on top. The sauce in this lasagna is your favorite salsa. Sprinkle a good helping of cheese on top. Another great thing about this lasagna is that it freezes great! Ingredients Instructions Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Notes I use oven ready or no-boil lasagna noodles to save time. Stuffed Peppers. Hoookaay dokkkayyy folks, I’m back! Yay! …or nay? Haha, you decide, you don’t have to tell me ;) Thanks again to Rachel & Megan for filling in while I was getting my life in order. I can’t believe it’s almost been a week since we moved into our new place. I found a new area of the house to take my pictures (bear with me for a few weeks while some of the recipes are still using photographs from our apartment days) and we have SO.MUCH. natural light.

So lately, I’ve been trying to eat better. I’ve been seeing stuffed peppers pop up all over the place and I hear they’re healthy too, if you combine the right amount of ingredients. Stuffed Peppers Yield: 3-4 servings | Prep Time: 25 minutes | Cook Time: 10 minutes. IaffH.jpg (783×2072) Country Chicken Tater Tot Casserole Recipe. Yesterday, I posted a recipe for Buffalo Chicken Tater Tot Casserole.

Country Chicken Tater Tot Casserole Recipe

It was amazing, but I love anything with buffalo sauce. The casserole was fairly spicy but not everyone in my family likes hot food. Recipe for Easy Brown Rice Casserole with Turkey Italian Sausage and Green Bell Pepper. (Updated December 2012) Today's my birthday, which makes it even more fun that Ziplist has named me Casserole Queen for this recipe, which received one of the Ziplist Best of 2012 Recipe Awards!

Recipe for Easy Brown Rice Casserole with Turkey Italian Sausage and Green Bell Pepper

Everyone should be Queen for the Day on their birthday, don't you agree? I hope everyone will enjoy seeing this recipe from the past while I spend some birthday-celebrating time with family and friends. And if you're not already one of the many people using Ziplist, I recommend you check out the Ziplist Recipe Box, Shopping List, and Grocery Deals features, which you can use on thousands of blogs and other food sites. (On Kalyn's Kitchen those Ziplist links are located at the top of the left sidebar where it says Save Your Recipes.) Easy Barbecued Ribs ~ Mmm...is for Mommy. I’ve never cooked ribs before.

Easy Barbecued Ribs ~ Mmm...is for Mommy

It’s something I’ve left to the pros, like my favourite, favourite, favourite BBQ joint, Boneheads BBQ. When we were out shopping Thursday night though, there was a pretty good deal on some small packs of pork back ribs, so I decided to give it a go. Friday morning, I remembered that there was a barbecue rib recipe in my new America’s Test Kitchen Slow Cooker Revolution cookbook and I knew it was going to be what I used.

Like most good slow cooker recipes, this one does have a couple extra steps, but I loved that the extra steps were after the slow cooking, not before, because sometimes my cooking skills at 8 AM are not the sharpest. The original recipe is fairly large and should be made in a large oval slow cooker. Easy Barbecued Ribs In a small bowl, mix together paprika, brown sugar, cayenne and S&P. Now comes the only stove/oven work involved, we need to reduce the sauce and then brown the ribs under the broiler. Mexican Lasagne. How do mexican ingredients piled into tall layers in between soft flour tortillas sound?

Mexican Lasagne

Oh, yes...that is the deliciousness that is Mexican Lasagne! A yummy sauce packed with onion, red bell pepper and tomatoes is used, along with a filling of black beans, sweet corn, and cheddar cheese to make the lasagne-like layers. And what to use instead of pasta...? Well, soft flour tortillas are just perfect. They dissolve just enough to almost taste like soft cheese in between the layers. Nigella tops hers off with a fresh Avocado Salsa that sounds divine. And leftovers? One addition I did make was ground turkey. Beef with broccoli. On the rare night when we order Chinese takeout, we all want something different.

beef with broccoli

Dave craves something spicy, green onion pancakes, and salt & pepper chicken. Lucy requests fried rice. Macaroni and Beef with Cheese — <br/>Childhood Love. Mid-week Macaroni and Beef with Cheese, photo by Donna I needed a dinner that was easy and delicious, would please everyone, one that also reheated well in case my daughter’s track meet ran late, and I had to be able to make it long before serving so it would be just a matter of reheating come dinnertime.

Macaroni and Beef with Cheese — <br/>Childhood Love

There are of course a thousand options that fit these criteria, but last week, I was in a nostalgic mood and thought back to school lunches, one of my favorites, macaroni and beef. We were always famished by lunchtime and this dish was dependable and impossible to screw up by a 1970′s school kitchen. Swedish Meatballs - White Lights on Wednesday.