When I make lasagna… I make lasagna. It is just as easy to make three or four lasagnas as it is to make one (if you have the baking dishes available). When I buy lasagna ingredients I buy enough for several lasagnas and make extra to put in the freezer.
Here’s my lasagna recipe, this recipe makes one lasagna, but it’s a great once a month cooking (OAMC) recipe to make in bulk.
I get out a large skillet to brown the ground beef, and a large pot to heat the sauce.
Once a Month Cooking Lasagna Recipe
One box lasagna noodles
1 lb lean …read more

Courtesy of The Taste of Home Cookbook and website!
Warm Broccoli Cheese Spread
I cut this recipe out of a newspaper a year ago and decided to trim it down by substituting fat-free and reduced-fat ingredients. Whenever I make this for an occasion, I end up being asked for the recipe. -Patricia Moore of Toledo, Ohio
SERVINGS: 14
CATEGORY: Lower Fat
METHOD: Baked
TIME: Prep: 15 min. Bake: 25 min.
Ingredients:
* 1 package (8 ounces) fat-free cream cheese, cubed
* 1 cup (8 ounces) reduced-fat sour cream
* 1 envelope Italian salad dressing mix
* 3 cups frozen chopped broccoli, thawed, drained and patted dry
* 2 cups (8 ounces) shredded …read more

It depends upon what part of the country you live it as to what you’ll consider to be the essentials of a well-stocked pantry. Here’s what works for me, with the addition of some items that I don’t actually stock but that I believe a lot of folks do! It’s absolutely essential to keep the basics on-hand if you are going to be doing OAMC or OAWC, or even Once a Week Food Prep! Trust me, everything just flows better and you save a lot of time!
So, what have I missed? I’d love to here what is an essential …read more

Part 2
Here are the basic steps that we covered in Part 1:
1 Choosing the time
2 Planning and shopping
Here’s what we’ll cover now, on the second day:
3 Cooking
4 Labeling and freezing
5 Adapting recipes
3 COOKING

Good shoes, good tunes, and comfy clothes will help a lot. Remember how “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down”? Well, bribes work well for this task too. Planned breaks, chocolate, a great movie, whatever gets you through it!
Group your tasks so that the flow goes well. If this isn’t the smoothest, most natural thing for you, rest assured that it will get much better as …read more

Part 1

Why would anyone want to do this, to ruin a perfectly good day by spending the entirety in the kitchen? Well, because that’s the end of slaving in the kitchen for the whole month! Imagine coming home and having a great dinner either waiting for you or ready to pop in the oven for a few minutes while you have a glass of wine with the one you love…every day for a month!
Sound like a fairy tale or like something only Martha could pull off? Not at all. Think you’d have to buy tv dinners to have this sort …read more