now I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to make one for the freezer
so busy in the kitchen I'm doing a lot of canning and the videos are gonna be
coming up real shortly but I thought I would share with you today my
penny-pinching lasagna you know one of the most expensive ingredients in
lasagna for me it's ricotta cheese and it's ground beef now cheese can be
expensive too but I do get it really cheap at the discount grocery store so I
got this whole big bag for $4 if it's so expensive well today on the
penny-pinching lasagna we're substituting ground beef for some of
this so what is this it's zucchini I'm gonna share with you
how I make this it's a family tradition of mine my children loved it because
they really didn't taste the zucchini and I'll show you how I put together
it's really simple you know in a busy summer day when you don't really want to
take a lot of time to cook things like this are really great to put together
it also freezes really well the only thing you have to put in consideration
is the zucchini does give more moisture when you're cooking it so some of the
water will evaporate out of it but I'll show you how I do it perfect way to make
a meal because I've had two different courts of spaghetti sauce neither these
sealed and so I have to use them up and I have all this zucchini and it's a lot
of zucchini and you run out of ideas first thing we're gonna do is we're
gonna take some our coconut spray this I got the Dollar Tree I will not be buying
it again because I do not like aerosol but I got this a long time ago and I
really want to use it up do is add a layer of sauce
then we're gonna go ahead and use our lasagna noodles so many times I make
food and it's not from a recipe it's just things that I put together so we're
gonna go ahead and put these lasagna noodles in I do not parboiled Amazon as
you know they make the oven ready design yet noodles now that is such a blessing
the lasagna noodles I got at Weis market and Ali paying a dollar 29 for it but
Dollar Tree has them for $1 now we're going to go ahead and we're gonna add
some zucchini add a layer of cheese the zucchini is replacing all of the meat
now you can't have ground beef to this if you choose to but for our family this
is a way to have lasagna and not have that expense we're gonna go ahead and
we're going to layer it all over again
and I always pack down just a little bit so I can fit more food into our pan this
is a small pan and I try not to layer double layer the noodles that much okay
now this sauce is used up this sauce came a long time ago I had it frozen
this came with a pizza mix so we're going to use this up as well I totally
like about casseroles is how you can just use up all kinds of bits and pieces
of things and this sauce is really really thick my spaghetti and pizza
sauce is always tends to be a little thinner
best of the zucchini I will probably just throw in the freezer or I would
dehydrate it well coming at the end of my garden year how oh my goodness what a
year it's been I really did well with my garden this year
and in the beginning it was off to a rough start but now things are really
coming in production I have a lot to carrots and I'll be doing videos on that
but the ground is just too hard I can't dig up the carrots all right so can we
do another layer that's going to be a challenge of mine I think I'm not going
to do another layer I think I'm going to keep it just like this so there you go
now I'm not going to show a full video of making it again but I'm just gonna
share with you when you make your casserole you can make two of them and
put one in the freezer now I'm going to bake this and put it in the freezer I'm
not gonna put it in the freezer raw simply because the noodles I think would
tend to get mushy so we're gonna just make this casserole the same as the
other one and use up all this I really wasn't gonna do it this way but I
thought you know what why not just make another one because I have all of the
things you need to make it
let me go ahead and use this two
daughters come up every single week we only have a few miles apart but every
week we have a day that it's a girls day out and so I will use this casserole for
that so this is going to be a very small casserole but it's going to be very good
as well if you pair this with a salad the bread if you pair this with a salad
and you pair it with garlic bread this is a full meal so this is a smaller one
it doesn't have as much in it because I'm running out of my supplies here but
as you can see I've made two of them so let's put this in the oven and I put it
in about 350 for about a half an hour to 45 minutes I'll pull it out of the oven
and I'll show you what it looks like and give it a taste test time for a little
bit of a tea break so I'm going to share with you now while we're waiting for our
lasagna to get finished in the oven I want to share with you how I'm going to
incorporate a lot of my canning videos
so this is the situation I have I have a lot of canning videos coming up but if I
throw them into a regular video let's say like one today it gets lost that
people can't search for it a lot of my videos are searchable videos in other
words I share with you how to how to make spaghetti sauce how to can v8 juice
how to can tomato juice lots of canning videos so what I'm going to do is I'm
going to sometimes have a second video and the reason why I have a second video
is simply because it's easy for people to search and find what they're looking
for I admit a lot of people have been asking me hey where do you find this and
where do I find that and I can't even find it because it's so hidden in all of
these videos that I make so what I'm going to do is have two videos I'm gonna
have two videos one day and that will be two separate different videos yeah
I may later on have a video on canning right now I have a folder of about seven
videos of canning but I really need to get out to all of you but I realize
canning isn't for everyone neither is the cooking so I'm going to
separate everything just to make life a little easier on all of us and I hope
that way you're able to find what you're looking for
2% of my videos or how-to bit is and I touched on hundreds of different
subjects anywhere from making candles to making soap to canning lots of canning
recipes to homesteading and so I really want to make things so much easier for
all of you and it's easier for me as well so like I have a whole bunch of DIY
making your own different kinds of cleaners that are organic in nature I
don't know where to put those videos because I don't want to throw them into
my cooking videos so it's gonna be a lot of second videos that maybe five minutes
or six minutes long and that is just to help all of you out so I took a little
break but right now I'm gonna go and start canning some of my tomato juice I
have a lot more salsa to make how about my zucchini relish my red beets then
canning you haven't seen any of those videos this year they're coming out to
you I promise one day at a time testing one day at a time
you go that's what it looks like after its baked let me get some out and I
let's give it a taste test I'm in the middle of editing this video and I just
want to share with you what it looks like zucchini cut up in little pieces
like this makes it really good it is delicious
this is something that you guys make all the time or maybe this is something you
never heard of either way let me know in the comments below have you ever made
this if not give it a try and let me know an update because I think your
family's gonna enjoy it it's just another way to use some zucchini when
you have a lot of it mmm be care everyone and we'll see you guys tomorrow
and later on today there's gonna be a video coming out of my zucchini relish
because this time of year it's all zucchini bye guys and don't forget if
you like cheating me on Mondays I have over two years of videos on cheat meal
Monday in this playlist right here see you guys