Where Oh Where Is My Lasagna Recipe?

Have you every lost a very favorite recipe and searched high and low and it was nowhere to be found?  I have and it is so frustrating.  I have a very bad habit.  Instead of putting the recipe back where I got it after using it, I will set it beside the computer while I write up a post or stick it inside whatever cookbook is open and use it as a bookmark....bad, bad, thing to do.  I am assuming that is what I did...I have done it before so it seemed like history would repeat itself.

I wanted to make lasagna.  I had my heart set on making it, so needless to say I was willing to do anything to find it....even if that meant pulling out piles of magazines.....

and newspaper clippings and pages that I had printed off...

It was time to sort through everything or there would be no dinner.  Well, all of the hours of work sorting were to no avail.  What to do?  I remembered sharing the recipe with my daughter.  Nope, she didn't have it but maybe her husband did...but they were on vacation in Hawaii.  Dinner was looking like a dream.

There is a happy ending to this story.  My SIL had it on his computer...he sorted through his emails and  forwarded the recipe to me...it was a forward of the forward that he sent when I lost the recipe a year or so ago.  Thank you, Kevin!!  I will find my original...it has become a quest.  But there would be lasagna for dinner!

Kate's Lasagna

1 pkg frozen cut leaf spinach
8-10 lasagna noodles
1 to 1.5 lb ground beef
1/2 lb mild Italian sausage
1 onion
2 lrg clove garlic
2 8oz cans tomato sauce
1 6oz can tomato paste
1 cup water (or red wine)
1 pkg sliced mushrooms
1 tsp oregano
1 tsp basil
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp sugar
1/8 tsp red pepper flakes
dash of pepper
1 egg
3/4 cup cottage cheese
1/2 cup parmesan shredded + 1/2 cup more for top
3/4 cup mozzarella > 1 lb mozzarella grated

Cook spinach per directions until thawed.
Cook noddles.

In large skillet brown ground beef, sausage, chopped onion, crushed garlic; drain fat. Reduce heat. Add tomato sauce, paste, water/wine, stir until smooth. Add mushrooms.  Stir in seasonings. Simmer 20 minutes.

In a bowl mix spinach, egg, cottage cheese, Parmesan cheese + 3/4 cup mozzarella cheese.

Pour 1/2 of meat sauce into a 9x13-inch pan. Cover w/layer of noodles. Spread spinach-cheese mixture over noodles.

Add another layer of noodles, then remaining meat sauce, remaining mozzarella, plus
another 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan.

Sprinkle top with parsley. 

Bake @ 350 for 30 minutes 

Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

PRINTABLE RECIPE

The lasagna was delicious.  I made it and I was the only one home!  Everybody had somewhere else to be...it didn't matter.  My SIL saved the day and I got to eat lasagna!  I shared with the neighbors as one cannot eat lasagna alone.