Month: December 2024

Baked Ziti 2024

Baked Ziti can be compared to lausuagna but there are differences, and it can taste absolutely amazing, and a very fun dish, doesn’t take a lot of prep time and can be quite tasty, and a crowd pleaser.

You can buy your marinara sauce, or you can buy it, see the link below to our homemade marinara sauce we made.

Click here for the video!

Its fun, and easy, and it tastes amazing!

Phase 1 Choppy Choppy

So if you have a food processor run these through it to get it almost puried, if you don’t then chop it up as finely as you can.

1 Large onion, a whole garlic, roasted peppers (This is optional, you don’t have to have this.)

Phase 2 Cheese Please!

You will want to grade a lot of parmesan cheese, (You can buy this pre graded.) and your Mozzarella, (please do not buy pre graded.) You are going to need enough of this.

Phase 3 The Noodles

Normally this recipe calls for Ziti noodles, however these are not always easy to get, and in fact, I’ve never been able to find them, penne noodles work just fine.

Cook your noodles either near done, or done according to the package directions, when done drain the water, however do not drain them as we need the starch on it later to help the sauce to stick to the noodles.

Phase 4 The Sauce

Oil your pot and put your onions and ground beef in, cook until the onions are getting cooked, then add the garlic and then roasted garlic , put salt and pepper in.

Put 5 cups of marinara sauce in and mix well.

Put a container of robata cheese in and mix well.

Add your pasta and mix it.

On a casserole dish put a small spread of your meat sauce no noodles.

This way you won’t need to grease our pan.

Pre Heat your oven to 350 degrees.

Now put half of your meat sauce into the pan.

Cover in half your parmesan cheese, and your mozzarella

Now put the rest of your meat sauce in, and cover the rest with cheese.

Now bake it for 25 minutes!

When done leave sit for at least 10 minutes before serving, (other wise your going to have a lot of loss flavor)

Serve!

We hope you like this, its one of our favorite dishes, and we through we would come back to this and share with you our favorite!

Marinara Sauce 2024

Marinara sauce is one of those Italian sauces that you are going to use on almost every type of pasta sauce, spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, Lausanne sauce, this sauce is very versatile and can be used for a lot of different things, and honestly tastes great.

And another fun fact, is you can easily buy this, and yes you can, but it also has a lot of preservatives, and not as healthy or even as good tasting. Sure its more convenient, and some times cheaper, but your sacrificing taste, and at the end of the day what do you want a cheap meal, or do you want something that has value and taste!

You might think this is a hard dish to make, and really it isn’t.

First question, do you have a good blender, if not do you have a good food processor? If you don’t have a good blender, take all the ingredients you have to chop and put them through a food processor, if not, chop them as fine as you can, along with the tomatoes take a potato masher and be ready to mash them once cooked, if you have a blender follow along, you can be creative on making things work!

Canned tomatoes are the best you can use for this unless you have ones grown from your garden, buying tomatoes from your grocery store isn’t as good as canned ones.

Phase 1 Choppy Choppy

  1. Chop up one large onion, 2 whole garlics, 3 to 5 chili peppers.

Phase 2 Cook time!

This would be the easiest in a Wok, other wise a big pot might be better, or a very large frying pan.

  1. Add a lot of extra virgin olive oil in your pan and heat it up really good, when its hot and bubbling then go to the next step.
  2. Put your onions in and cook them until they start getting soft.
  3. Add your garlic and cook them until they become fraquent.
  4. Add in a few sprays of white wine, (You can use red, but its a bit heavier, rice wine would be ok too, or you can leave this step out.)
  5. Add 3 cans of crushed tomatoes, you can add what ever type of canned tomatoes you want, for tomatoes they should be canned unless you have garden grown tomatoes, (those are best).
  6. Add a lot of oregano, parsley and basil, and mix that in well.
  7. Add some chili peppers, this step is optional.
  8. Add some salt and pepper.
  9. Cook this out until its done, and take it off of the heat.
  10. Put the sauce through a blender.
  11. Once cooled down bottle and fridge.

This is one of the most tastiest and amazing and far healthier than store bought, if you trying to entertain, this will really impress them, and if your going to do Italian, lets do it right, we hope you enjoyed this!

Homemade English Muffin Breakfast Sandwich

How often do we go to our favorite breakfast or coffee joint for a breakfast sandwich, in Canada we go to Tim Hortons a lot and we enjoy our coffee and our breakfast there, but it gets costly, and often we can do it our selves, and make it better.

You can choose your own meat, your own cheese, and make it taste amazing, and the best part its what you want, and should be cheaper and healtheir!

So lets break it all down.

  1. Cut an English Muffin in half and spread some mayo over it, if you want to make your own mayo mix you can do that, chipolete sauce would work great here!
  2. Heat up your pan and put an egg on it breaking the yolks and cooking it with pepper and salt (lo or no sodium salt if you can.)
  3. Remove from the stove when cooked and the toast the English Muffin over the stove too, and remove it.
  4. Place your Eggs on the bottom part of the English Muffin.
  5. Put some hot sauce, we like Sweet Thai Franks Hot Sauce on ours.
  6. Put some grated cheese over it.
  7. Put a sliced onion over it.
  8. Close it up and serve.

This was easy, simple, quick and cheap, and honestly worth making for your breakfast, and it really levels your cooking up!

Homemade Bread Machine Bread

Start putting the ingredients into your breadmaker.

1 Warm Water
2 tablespoons of white sugar
2 tablespoons of yeast

Let this sit for 10 minutes before moving on to the next step, this is necessary for the yeast to start activating, please do not skip.
(You don’t need the sugar, bread is carbohydrates, so it will break down into sugar soon anyway)

After 10 minutes have passed lets put the rest of the ingredients in.

1/4 Cup of Vegitable oil

3 cups of all pourpose flour, (You can use bread flour if you want.)

A small sprinkle of salt you don’t need a lot of this.

Now that its all in, the key is to use the right setting or it won’t work, so pay attention to this, and it should work fine.

In the end you should have some homemade bread, which should be cheaper and much tastier and you won’t have to worry about all the extra chemicals that usually come with store bought, and if you think about it, the only extra thing you should have to buy is flour, which should last a while and yeast which won’t be a 1 time use thing!

We hope you enjoy!