StrollerFit Recipe Redo

My stress reliever is cooking and sometimes that leaves my house a mess, between the mess I make cooking and the things Joey gets into while I am cooking (ex. taking all the magnets off the fridge and putting them anywhere and everywhere he can.)

Anyway, I love to cook and do not love baking as much. As I have said before, with cooking you can eyeball ingredients, baking must be exact - 1/2 cup of flour is 1/2 a cup, not a palm full or the recipe won't come out right.

Danielle's Lasagna on Thursday was a hit, but I have so much pasta, I was not going to buy lasagna noodles, I decided to improvise. Joey loves curly noodles so I made a 1 pound box, figured this is enough for him to have a bowl full and the remaining will b e used in the dish. Then while he napped I roasted the veggies, grated all the cheese and made the sauce.

Now When I make lasagna or baked ziti I do not use no boil noodles, I use regular noodles and many times I do not boil them, because I use a lot of tomato sauce and the noodles soak it in and soften while baking. If I had not made noodles for Joey to eat, that was my plan, with this dish. Glad I cooked the noodles, but boiling and using noodles over boiling and using lasagna noodles is definitely a different animal to it self.

As I looked at the sauce it was a thick white sauce and I thought to my self, this will not soft noodles that were not cooked nor will it get into all the cracks in the curly noodles. SO I threw the noodles into the sauce first, making a mac and cheese mix. This made sure the noodles were good and covered in the sauce. Then I layered noodles, veggies, cheese, and repeated these layers, ending with a thick layer of cheese.

This was much easier than the lasagna recipe and a few less steps. I baked it and it came out ooey and gooey. Joey and I ate it for dinner and Scott had some later. Scott who hates with a capital H loved it as much as Danielle's lasagna. We have hit.

So this is my quick redo of a great recipe that I am sharing with you my StrollerFit Moms. Enjoy. Off to make Artichoke Soup for the soup swap wed and preparing for StrollerFit this week. Hoping this is the last week before the baby, I love my SF moms but I am more than ready for baby to come into this world!!!