What to do with leftover lasagna and garlic bread?

This past weekend we celebrated Valentine's Day at a progressive dinner.  Everybody's food was delicious.  Lucky us, my friend Kimberly sent us home with a whole bunch of lasagna.  It was delicious!  I ate it again as soon as we got home.  However, after a couple of days, lasagna starts to get a little dry, so when we ate if for dinner tonight, I jazzed it up again by turning it into an open-faced sandwich.  It was totally different from anything we've had before.  We really enjoyed it.  I hope you do too!

Open-Faced Lasagna Sandwiches
Ingredients:
For the Sauce-
1 Cup Vitamin D Milk
1/2 Cup Grated Parmesean Cheese
1 Egg Yolk
2 TBSP Butter
1 Cup Spaghetti Sauce

For the Skillet-
2 1/2 Cups Cooked Veggies- Chopped
3 Cups Lasagna- Chopped

Garlic Bread

Cut up 2 1/2 Cups of cooked vegetables.  I used frozen onions and peppers and leftover eggplant, mushrooms and peppers.  Cut lasagna up, measure it after it's chopped.  Set aside.  Next prepare sauce.  Turn stovetop burner onto medium.  Pour milk into your sauce pan.  Add parmesean cheese and egg yolk.  Start whisking milk mixture.  You want to be careful to keep whisking so your sauce won't burn.  Add 2 TBSP of butter.  Sauce will boil and start to thicken, continue stirring.  After sauce thickens a bit, add red spaghetti sauce.  Keep whisking while it boils for a minute.  Then turn buner down and let it simmer while you cook your veggies and lasagna, stirring ocassionaly so it won't burn.

Before cooking veggies, warm up or make your garlic bread. 

Drizzle olive oil on your frying pan.  Put chopped veggies into the pan and saute them.  When they are thoroughly warmed, add chopped lasagna to pan.  Mix together and continue cooking and stirring until both are warm.  Add sauce to mixture.  Cook until lasagna mixture is bubbly.  Turn the burner off and let cool for a minute to thicken up.  Pour lasagna mixture on top of a slice of garlic bread.  Enjoy!

What to do with stale hot dog buns?

Last week I asked Andy to pick up some hotdog buns at the bread store on his way home from work.  When there, he was overcome by the cheap prices and bought a giant loaf of white bread, a 16 pack of hotdog buns, and a box of powdered sugar doughnuts.  The doughnuts were gone within 24 hours, but the bread and hotdog buns lingered longer.  I have had to think of all kinds of creative ways to cook with bread over the past week.  Tonight I made Pizza Burger Pie in memory of my grade school days.  I loved when we had pizza burgers at lunch.  In fact all the kids loved them.  They were basically a bun topped with spaghetti sauce, hamburger, and cheese.  I took that basic recipe, made it into a large dish and fancied it up.  After it was finished cooking and I placed it on the table, Charlie proclaimed, "That's my favorite- Yummy pizza!"  And sure enough, everyone in our family had two helpings.  I hope your family enjoys it as much as mine did.


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Pizza Burger Pie


Ingredients:
5 Hotdog Buns
Olive Oil
Garlic Powder


1 Cup Ground Turkey
1 1/4 Cup Spaghetti Sauce
18 Black Olives Sliced
1/2 Cup Red Onions Diced
1/2 Large Green Pepper
1/2 TBSP Dried Basil
2 1/2 Cups Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
Parmesean Cheese


Spray a round 10" to 11" baking dish with Pam.  Tear up hotdog buns and spread out over bottom of dish.  Drizzle olive oil over torn up buns and then sprinkle garlic powder on top.  Bake in the oven  at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes until toasty.  Brown ground turkey while buns are toasting in the oven.


Take the buns out of the oven.  Spread tomato sauce over toasted buns.  Next spread the browned ground turkey on top of the sauce.  Add the onions, peppers, and black olives to the top of the pie.  Sprinkle dried basil and parmesean cheese on top of veggies.  Finally top Pizza Burger Pie with shredded mozzarella.  Bake for 20 to 30 minutes at 350 degrees until cheese is melted and starting to brown around the edges.  Let cool and enjoy!