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[Dragonfly216]

ChickenCanoe, thank you! I think he was touched. The only problem is that I outdid myself and I don't know if I'll ever come up with such a good present again, lol! Oh and I too am really enjoying your daughter's travels! I'm living vicariously thru her and thru Oz!

CanuckBock! I always so enjoy your stories and photos! I've said this before, but I love your place! It looks like heaven, but I could not handle snow every month! It gets too cold here in central Alabama fir me, lol! That lasagna looks amazing! My mom's recipe has always been one of my favorite ever comfort foods.

 

[scottcaddy]

Quote:Originally Posted by CanuckBock


Heel low:

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So when it snows, what to do...CELEBRATE and make comfort foods!

Making lasagne today. No "made" or "finished it" photos, in the process of cooking it now. Hope I remember to take an AFTER photo before we chow on down...but no promises there...gobble gobble gulp!

Higgins Lasagne ​

In a large fry pan put:

Fry pan mixture
Hamburger - coupla pounds, brown up & drain if fatty, otherwise add the following and cook till meat is browned and onions are clearish:

one pound Stew Beef in small chunks (optional)
1 - 2 cups sliced mushrooms or canned sliced mushrooms (put drained juice in crock pot mixture)
1 tsp poultry seasoning
2 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese
one large or two small onions sliced & diced
one celery center sliced & diced
one red (or green if you likes those) pepper cored, sliced & diced




Put the following in crock pot and put on high setting with lid on.

Crockpot mixture
one 28 oz. can of chopped tomatoes
two cans tomato soup
two carrots peeled & grated
one fresh tomato diced up (optional)
one can beer (if you wanna, I don't usually do this now but adds a nice flavour)




Drain any fat from the meat mixture and add the fry pan mixture to the crock pot mixture. Put lid back on and let her c00k.






Cook up -
Lasagne noodles - about 9 or so pending on the pan you wanna make the lasagne in...you want noodles to make up three noodle layers.

Cook as per package but add tsp oil to water so noodles don't stick. Drain, rinse in cold water and put in fridge to wait for sauce to finish cooking.


Cottage cheese - 750 grams
Grated Mozarella cheese - 4 to 5 cups or so...LOTS!

When sauce is done, (I am starting it in crock at 10 a.m., expect to get on this about, oh 5 p.m....), take a long pan and put some grated Mozzy cheese and some sauce down (one scoop will do yah), do a layer of lasagne noodles, then sauce (not too thick, you got more layers to put in the pan), noodles, then cottage cheese layer, then noodle layer, then sauce and a whole buncha grated Moz cheese for the top. Num...cheese, need our calcium!

Bake the lasagne in the oven at low heat (about 350 F or so) for an hour (long enough to do night chores) or until top is browned up, bubbly delish. Don't get way laid outside too long or you'll burn din dins...blah...hurry up and get back inside now.


Pending how hungry your crew is, you may add a nice green salad and a loaf of garlic toast (for dipping, first night lasagne is more drippy but sets up by the next day, IF you made enough for two days).

This sauce may be used as spaghetti, so if you make a HUGE batch and are tired the first day, just boil up some spaghetti pasta for the first meal, then do the lasagne process the next day OR you can freeze the sauce if you have no Moz &/or cottage cheese on hand and just have it as simple spaghetti. I have even done up several batches of lasagne in pans and frozen them as is, where is. Defrost for a real meal, real easy peasy!

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I still remember green tomatoes and green pumpkins to harvest and bring inside on the Coast...so not like we don't know how to manage a short season for other reasons past the cold. On the Coast we had to wait for the rains to subside and deal with all the wet water issues (drainage to stop putrid mucky mud from forming) that make planting impossible too. I like the sunshine here...lots more sun time here; not overcast and dreary for 90 days straight.

Now back to winter white mode I go...the warm weather of a coupla weeks we had in January and March...that was just to taunt us. "Neener neener nee hee hee haw!"

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada



Why do I get so hungry when I read a Tara post?
Scott

 

[chickadoodles]

I have a broody Mallard. Since I don't have a Drake yet and she is the first broody I have decided to let her set chicken eggs. Now explaining that to my 8 year old granddaughter who is my chicken partner was another story. She said is she pregnant? I said no she will set on some eggs and hatch them. The little ones come from the eggs. She said like we eat and I said yes. She said is she going to have some baby ducks? I said no she will hatch some baby chickens. She said how? I said that we will put some hen eggs under her and she will set on them and keep them warm until they hatch. She said why don't we put some duck eggs under her? I said the duck eggs won't hatch. She said why? I said because we don't have any boy ducks. She said will the chicken eggs hatch. I said yes we have roosters. She said do the roosters hatch them? I said no they make the eggs so they will hatch. She said OHH? I think I left a puzzled little girl. But she is excited about her duck having baby chicks.

Very cute.

 

[CanuckBock]

CanuckBock! I always so enjoy your stories and photos! I've said this before, but I love your place! It looks like heaven, but I could not handle snow every month! It gets too cold here in central Alabama fir me, lol! That lasagna looks amazing! My mom's recipe has always been one of my favorite ever comfort foods.

Always glad to entertain yah!

Well, ain't heaven suppose to be up, way up in the sky, angels on fluffy clouds... Those of us that are colder...we ARE closer to heaven... At least that is what we keep telling ourselves--Bwa ha ha... Think maybe brain freeze has something to do with our take on reality, eh?

Why do I get so hungry when I read a Tara post?
Scott

Oh Scott...you are suppose to get incentive to MAKE the food...surprise the family with feel great FOOD!

Everybody...eat eat eat...then hibernate 'cause spring will be here...sometime...somehow!

Spring will show up and it should STAY around, not keep flitting off like some tempermental butterfly.

Tara

 

[drumstick diva]

Hagar that was some explanation of why your duck will hatch baby chickens. If you think she is puzzled - I've got a grand mal case of brain drain.

To those trying to get a hen to go broody.:

How about you make a large comfy nest - with down filled pillows and pretend to be brooding - maybe emu eggs would be good - they are hard shelled and probably can bear the weight of a slim human. Puff up and growl if any hens come to look. Now and then utter "bawk, bawk ba-gawk" with feeling - hens get' broody envy 'and they will want to brood emu eggs too - there you go - easy peasy.

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* remember I have brain drain but I still think it will work.

 

[tnspursfan09]

Hagar that was some explanation of why your duck will hatch baby chickens. If you think she is puzzled - I've got a grand mal case of brain drain.

To those trying to get a hen to go broody.:

How about you make a large comfy nest - with down filled pillows and pretend to be brooding - maybe emu eggs would be good - they are hard shelled and probably can bear the weight of a slim human. Puff up and growl if any hens come to look. Now and then utter "bawk, bawk ba-gawk" with feeling - hens get' broody envy 'and they will want to brood emu eggs too - there you go - easy peasy.

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* remember I have brain drain but I still think it will work.

just love you to pieces, diva

 

[chickensnewtome]

Hagar that was some explanation of why your duck will hatch baby chickens. If you think she is puzzled - I've got a grand mal case of brain drain.

To those trying to get a hen to go broody.:

How about you make a large comfy nest - with down filled pillows and pretend to be brooding - maybe emu eggs would be good - they are hard shelled and probably can bear the weight of a slim human. Puff up and growl if any hens come to look. Now and then utter "bawk, bawk ba-gawk" with feeling - hens get' broody envy 'and they will want to brood emu eggs too - there you go - easy peasy.

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* remember I have brain drain but I still think it will work.

Very good idea drumstick diva but the only part that is hard for me is the part that says "slim human" Hunny I aint been slim since before I had kids! I would need some dang dinosaur eggs to hold up to my weight!

 

[chickensnewtome]

So chicken math has hit my husband! He called me and asked If we would really notice the feed cost in new chicks, he went to a local feed store and found Black australorps and silver laced wyandottes, plus some more ducks. He thinks they will all fit in great with the 13 chicks in the brooder, plus we have 10 grown chickens, 4 ducks, and 4 meat rabbits. I love it tho!

 

[Bunnylady]

Diva might be onto something. I have long thought that broodiness is contagious.

Oh for Pete's sake! Diva isn't the only one with a drained brain! We should get the Broody Magician to dance! When Sourland dances, hens go broody. His broody GPS is a bit wonky, though, so the intended recipient may not be the one that gets them . . . .

On second thought, maybe getting Sourland to dance might not be such a great idea

 

[Wisher1000]

It's spring, Bunny (really, it is, no matter what your current temperature, trust me!) Sourland should be dancing in overdrive! This is the only time of year that that misguided GPS of his is a non-factor. BROODIES for everybody!

Go, Sour...Go, Sour.....Go, Sour.....Go, Sour...... ooit ooit!