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Hump Day Treat : Updated Grilled Cheese

Happy Wednesday! One of my favorite lunch meal at sleep away camp was the day we would have grilled cheese with tomato soup. I was never a big grilled cheese eater as a little kid until sleep away camp. There are so many different ways to reinvent a simple grilled cheese sandwich. For today’s hump day treat I want you all to try either of these combos: sharp white cheddar with avocado ( you add the avocado on top after you obviously melted the cheese)  or brie with raspberry jelly. If you are eating it with tomato soup my favorite thing to do is add shaved cheese on the soup while it’s still warm so it melts inside. I know exactly what I am having for dinner tonight :-). Hope everyone had a great day and for those of us in New York City I hope you are enjoying this beautiful weather we are having right now. <3


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Hump Day Treat: Whole Wheat Lasagna

Hi Everyone! Hope everyone is having a great Wednesday so far and for all of us in New York City is getting back into the swing of things after Stella rolled through yesterday with all of her snow and in some places hail. EEK! One of my favorite things to do on these snow days is to cook a hearty meal that will keep me warm and is something that I can easily heat up the next few days without too much hassle. I love lasagna just like Garfield it is easy to make and something that you can easily reheat in the oven if you want to make sure each layer is fully warm. If you don’t have the time to do that you can simply re heat it in the microwave or simply eat it cold. There is no right or wrong way to re eat lasagna leftovers. Fun fact for everyone I used to think you had to cook the noodles prior to making the lasagna because no one had told me otherwise. However, when I picked up the box of whole wheat lasagna noodles at the store on Monday I discovered that you can simply put the noodles in the pyrex not cooked and it will cook itself while in the oven! An extra step gone from this process. Here is what you need

 

Ingredients:

-ingredients to make bolognese sauce ( I have previously posted my recipe, but any recipe you may have will work perfectly 🙂 )

-3 cups of ricotta cheese

-12 ounces of shredded mozzarella cheese

-¾ cup of grated parmesan cheese

-2 eggs

-box of lasagna noodles

 

Directions

1.Cook the bolognese sauce that I previously posted on my blog 🙂

2.Preheat the oven to 400 degrees

3.In a bowl mix the ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese, ½ cup of parmesan cheese and the 2 eggs. Set aside once it’s fully mixed

4.In a pyrex dish first grease the pan with pam cooking spray

5.Take a large scoop of the bolognese and layer the bottom of the pyrex

6.Top it with lasagna noodles normally its two full noodles

7.After the noodles put thin layer of the cheese mixture normally about 1 ¼ cups

8.Repeat the layers until you are the top of the pan. Once at the top top with the 2 remaining lasagna noodles. If you wish cover the top of the noodles with parmesan cheese

9.Bake in the oven for 30 minutes until hot and bubbling. After taking it out of the oven let it cool for 10 – 15 minutes.

10.Cut into squares and if you wish make some garlic bread and enjoy!
Hope everyone had a fun snow day yesterday and for most of us a great day working from home. Enjoy today’s hump day treat!


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Hump Day Treat – Colored Cake

Happy first day of March everyone! I can not believe that it is March 1st today. This year has truly gone by so fast. When I was in middle school I decided to do a science fair project to see if color really affected how food tasted to someone. Fun fact for all of you… IT DOES! I did this by adding food coloring to vanilla cake mix and having my friends taste two different cupcakes. One with food coloring in it and one without. I had them taste each of the same cupcakes blindfolded then not. Pretty crazy right? Anyways I always thought before this project that if a cake had color in it that it meant it was flavored with whatever color was added. All it takes is a little food coloring to add something special to your dessert. For example this cake pictured in today’s post was simply colored with red food coloring. Now most people assume that if you add red food coloring it will be red, but if you only add a few drops to a white cake mix it will turn your cake pink and not red. If you have seen all those amazing ombre colored cakes on Pintrest this is what they all do. Make one cake with one drop of food coloring of you choice then the second one with 3 – 4 and then depending on how many layers you want continue up. This way each layer gradually is a darker shade of whatever color that you use. I hope you all are having a great week so far and for those of us in NYC enjoying this crazy weather we are having. Anyone else ready for some snow? I am most definitely not! Enjoy today’s hump day treat of fun facts<3


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