Recipe Dump #8

My gift to you this Halloween is my favorite crock pot recipe in the whole world.



Religious Experience Lasagna
Ingredients

• 8 curly-edged lasagna noodles, broken in half


• Salt & pepper


• 15 ounces of ricotta cheese


• 1 1/4 cups Parmesan cheese


• 1/2 cup fresh minced basil


• 1 egg


• 24 ounces of spaghetti sauce


• 1 lb Italian sausage - remove it from its casing (we use sweet sausage)


• 4 cups mozzarella cheese


• you read that right - there is a reason this makes 4 nights of food for us, easy

Recipe

• Line your crock pot with aluminum foil. You will thank me for this one later.


• Boil and cook your lasagna noodles. Make sure you have 16. Drain, rinse them.


• Mix the ricotta, a cup of the Parmesan, basil, egg, 1/2 teaspoon of salt and pepper.


• Put 1/2 cup of tomato sauce in the bottom of the slow cooker.


• The order is this: 1/2 cup tomato sauce, 4 noodles, 9 tablespoons of the ricotta mixture (just drop the spoonfuls in - don't bother spreading that shit around), 1/3 of your sausage mixture, 1 cup mozzarella, 1/2 cup sauce.


• Repeat this 2 more times. Now you should be out of ricotta mixture, down to 4 noodles, 1/2 cup mozzarella.


• Final layer: last 4 noodles, topped with the last 1/4 cup of sauce, sprinkle with the 1/2 cup of mozzarella and the tiny bit of Parmesan.


• Cook this nectar of the gods on low for 4 hours. Let it cool for 20 minutes, serve with a salad and other veggie things.

Cost (assuming you have a full spice cabinet)

• Makes 6-8 servings depending on how starving you are


• Costs ~$12


• = ~$1.50-2 a person


• This stuff is so. good.

Note that we eat 2 or 3 veggie-only dinners when we finish this one off because it is cheese-city. But eat a lot of greens with it and you'll be okay - it's a treat!