Lasagna Night

I made my famous lasagna and for dessert, I made probably the easiest cake ever: pineapple upside down cake.

Eileen's Awesome sausage/spinach lasagna:

Ingredients:

lasagna

Spinach

Red Sauce:

1 lb ground beef

3 links of Italian sausage

1 small (not tiny) can of tomato paste

2-3 good tbsp of Italian seasoning (oregano, rosemary, thyme, basil and marjoram)

pinch of salt and pepper

White Sauce

14 oz ricotta 

14 oz cottage cheese

1/4 lb grated Parmesan

tsp salt

1. cook the pasta.Cut open the sausage links and mix that with the ground beef, and marinate it with the seasoning and salt and pepper.

3. In a rather large pan, add about a tbsp of oil.  I used extra virgin olive oil, but any type will do.  When it's nice and hot, add the seasoned meat.

4.  Brown the meat.

5.  Add the tomato paste to the meat and let it cook in, stirring it every few minutes or so.

Make the white sauce

1. Mix all the ingredients for the white sauce and put it aside.

Put it all together!!

Layer the lasagna however you like.  I put the meat on the first layer, then the white sauce, topped with the spinach.  I usually leave a little extra of both sauces to put right on top before smothering it in shredded cheese.  I used "three Italian cheese"

For the pineapple upside down cake!!! 

Ingredients:

1 can of sliced pineapples

pineapple cake mix (this made things much easier after I discovered it)

maraschino cherries

whatever else the cake mix calls for

brown sugar

1.  butter the bottom of a 13x9 pan.

2.  Evenly coat the bottom of the pan with the brown sugar.

3.  Add the pineapple slices to the bottom of the pan with the cherries

4.  make the cake mix, as it says.  Substitute a portion of the water with the remaining juice from the can.  

5.  Bake the cake for as long as it says.

Refrigerate and Enjoy!!!!