Food Wednesdays

 Oooops soory I didn't mean to post this til late Tuesday-sorry about that.

Good Morning, and Welcome to Food Wednesdays. 

    A new blogging event where I thought friends could gather and share Food-It's all about the Food so it is up to you what you would like to share about Food.  Doesn't need to be a recipe, although I love reading recipes, It can be photos, restaurants, history of food etc.

   Most of last week we were experiencing a rough winter storm here. Thankful we never lost our electricity as we are not prepared for that here as we were at the woods home. We are into the melting stage this week. So this will all be a memory soon haha

   Last week since I had all of the ingredients, I decided to make homemade lasagna. Comfort food for us. I hadn't made this dish in years so I needed to refresh my memory a bit on the ingredients.

  I always keep Jimmy Dean's sausage on hand in the freezer and I had the Italian sausage I wanted to use.

  So I fried up the sausage first, and then drained it well. To the drained sausage I added a basil-tomato sauce and mixed that together with a big spoon. While doing this I boiled water with a little olive oil added  and added in a box of gluten free lasagna noodles-these were made from brown rice. I cooked them about 3 minutes short of being totally cooked. Drained those. These noodles although carbs heavy were perfect for this dish. They held up well and just seemed to meld with the other ingredients. I got perfect portions that held together well.

  I mixed by hand in a bowl: a container of ricotta cheese, about a cup or so of shredded mozzarella cheese, and I grated fresh parmesan cheese-around 1/2 cup or so. I think the fresh parmesan really upt this dish flavor wise.

 I grabbed another small jar of sauce to layer the bottom first and then add some to the layers as I went along. So sauce on the bottom, the noodles, meat sauce, and cheese, a little more sauce and repeat.

  I have several vintage pans I like to use-so I added parchment paper to the bottom and up the sides first. This is the only photo I took. This was sooo delicious that we had it again the next day, and I froze enough for one more meal.

   

  Last week I also mixed together a batch of gluten free cut out sugar cookies. I grabbed some heart shaped cutters and will roll these out and bake one day this week for us. I hadn't made hardly any Christmas cookies, so I thought why not a batch for Valentine's day?  I will share the baked cookies next week in my Food Wednesdays post.

  Here is the recipe I use-I cut this out of a magazine back in the early 90's along with several other cut out cookies that article had shared. This always turns out so good even with my ingredient changes. The year before I retired (2002) I put together a cookbook, which included allot of my recipes along with friends, family, and co workers. I put together 75 books-all numbered and signed. I gave away allot and also sold about half of them. For me this was an end to a chapter in my life at the time and onward to retirement.

  The changes I made-1/2 cup butter and 1/2 cup coconut oil Splenda instead of sugar, Bob's Red Mill gluten free 1-1 flour.  I will mix up a keto frosting for these, using a keto powdered sweetener-it helps to lower the amount of total sugars in the cookie.

Dough all mixed up and now resting in the frig.

Now It is your turn to share your Food Wednesdays Post.  Please use the link to your actual Food Wednesday post and not your blog link thanks.