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Day: February 8, 2013

  • Lasagna Rolls and Strawberry Mango Salad with Strawberry Raspberry Vinaigrette

    Lasagna Rolls and Strawberry Mango Salad with Strawberry Raspberry Vinaigrette

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    Lasagna Rolls

     
    Ingredients
    12 lasagna noodles
    1cup ricotta cheese
    4oz shredded Mozzarella
    1/4 cup grated Parmesan
    1lb ground beef
    4 small crimini mushrooms, sliced
    1/2 a small white onion, chopped
    16oz jar spaghetti sauce
    1/2cup spaghetti sauce with mushrooms
    4-5 Tbs Italian bread crumbs
     
    Directions
    In a small bowl mix together the three cheeses. Set aside.
    Brown the ground beef in a medium frying pan. Drain grease, and return to stove. Add mushrooms, onions, and 16 oz jar of sauce.  Cook until onions are tender.  Set aside.
    Cook noodles according to package directions. You want to make sure they don’t get too soft, but are pliable enough to roll up.
    Preheat oven to 350 F.  Grease a 9×13 pan.
    After noodles are cooked, lay them out on a clean kitchen towel to help dry some of the water.  Spread a layer of the cheeses across each noodle, followed by the ground beef mixture.  Carefully roll the noodle up and place in prepared pan. Top with remaining sauce and bread crumbs. 
    Bake for 25-30 minutes

    Strawberry Mango Salad with Strawberry Raspberry Vinaigrette

     
    Ingredients
    Red lettuce leafs
    1 mango sliced

    Strawberries sliced

    For Dressing
    1/2 cup Strawberry Freezer Jam
    1 tsp Raspberry Blush Vinegar
    1 tsp lemon juice
    1 Tbs sugar
    1 tsp olive oil

    Directions
    Combine lettuce, mango and sliced strawberries in small salad bowls.
    In a blender, combine the dressing ingredients, and blend until smooth. Drizzle over salad and enjoy.

    Lasagna rolls are one of my favorite ways to eat lasagna lately. They taste the same, but are so much easier to serve up than you regular layered lasagna. Plus it’s just fun rolling them!  What goes better with lasagna than a salad? I had all these strawberries and wanted to attempt my hand at a vinaigrette. So I browsed a couple recipes, and then using what I had in my cupboard made this Strawberry Raspberry Vinaigrette. It’s very fruity, but very yummy too.

    ~Features~

    Cheesy Oozy Baked Breadcrumb’d B-nut and Cauliflower
    from Gastronomical Sovereignty
    That is a mouthful to say, but just look at that yummy goodness.


    Baby Bella Bites
    from Miz Helen’s Country Cottage
    I use to avoid mushrooms like the plague, but recently I’ve taken a liking to them. So much so that I’ve been hiding them in just about any dish I make lately. These look like a great appetizer to feature the mushrooms.


    Heart Cookies
    from Life in My Empty Nest
    How cute are these? I’ve been looking for a good peanut butter blossom recipe, and I love that she’s replaced the kisses with hearts. Perfect for your Valentines party.

     

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  • Healthy Snacking with SunRype

    Healthy Snacking with SunRype

    Since Princess V started kindergarten this year I’ve tried to be the cool mom that always has a snack ready when she gets home. Princess V always seem to be hungry right after school, and really I don’t blame her. They start at 12, which means we had to change our normal lunch time to 10:30 (slow eaters anyone, anyone?).
    So when 3 o’clock rolls around she is hungry.

    My biggest problem with having a snack ready for her, is that I’m often crunched on time. I still have 3 kids at home to take care of, the house work, and often I try to run my errands during this time. And who wouldn’t, 1 less kid makes errands so much easier!

    I remember my mom always having a plate of cookies, or our own ball of bread dough to shape and bake, or veggie trays, and crackers and cheese. Admittedly most of these are pretty easy and quick to throw together, so I don’t know why I don’t do it more. Some days I get it right , and other days it’s a work in progress.

    My favorite snack for the kids, however, is fresh fruit! I like to keep a bowl of bananas and apples on the table. My 2 year old is a fruit snatcher though, which means often our after school snack isn’t there, and I’ve realized too late to make anything else, let alone make it healthy.

    So I’ve started keeping ready made snacks like SunRype on hand. I love that SunRype is 100% Fruit, with no added sugars. They have a pretty strong sweet/tart flavor from the natural sugars in the fruit that is a bit hard to get use to. Princess R absolutely loves these bars, and they’ve helped keep her out of the fruit bowl some days.

    Wednesdays the kids are especially grateful for these healthy fruit snacks as we pick Princess V up and head straight to dance. We get home just in time to get dinner on the table, so snacks at that point are out of the question. I’ve taken to dropping a few of the SunRype Fruit Strips – by far the kids favorite SunRype product – into my purse before heading out the door. It keeps the kids satisfied while I get to reap the benefits of sneaking something healthy into their hands.

    Interested in trying out SunRype? Head over to Facebook for a Buy 1 Get 1 Free coupon.
     
    *This is a sponsored post on behalf of SheSpeaks and SunRype. I received free product in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are 100% my own.