Let's start the week off right with a Recipe from Sheila Seiler Lagrand : Emergency Lasagna! Happy Monday Everybody!!!!

Emergency Lasagna

(Keep one of these in the freezer for the two major food emergencies: unexpected guests or friends needing food delivered after the birth of a baby, surgery, death in the family . . . )

1 ½ pounds lean ground beef, crumbled, browned and drained

2 jars of your favorite spaghetti sauce

1 tablespoon minced garlic

2 teaspoons dried basil

1 teaspoon dried oregano

1 package no-boil lasagna noodles

½ pound shredded mozzarella cheese

2 cups ricotta cheese or 2 cups cottage cheese with one egg beaten in

1 disposable casserole pan

Heavy foil

Method:

Mix the beef, sauce, garlic, basil and oregano.

Grease the pan.

Spread a layer of lasagna noodles across the bottom of the pan.

Spread half the ricotta cheese over the noodles.

Spread a generous layer of the sauce over the ricotta.

Sprinkle half the mozzarella over the sauce.

Build a second layer just like the first one.

To bake and serve right away, bake uncovered at 350 degrees for 55 minutes or so.

To stash away for an emergency, cover with heavy foil and freeze.

To prepare frozen lasagna, put frozen casserole in oven set to 350. Remove the foil after 45 minutes. Bake another 30 minutes or so until bubbling.

Sheila Seiler Lagrand lives with her husband Rich and their two dogs, J.D. and Doc, in beautiful Trabuco Canyon, California. She enjoys serving at her church, Trabuco Canyon Community Church, gardening, cooking, and most of all, spending time with their children and nine (so far) grandchildren. She has lived her entire life in southern California, except for a year spent in French Polynesia as she conducted research for her dissertation. She doesn't understand boredom and is passionate about words, their power, their beauty, and their care and feeding.

Sheila earned her doctorate in anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. As an undergraduate at the University of California, San Diego, she studied anthropology and literature with an emphasis in writing. Sheila is a member of The High Calling. As a young woman she published poems in dozens of literary magazines. She has also contributed to anthropology journals and contributed a chapter to the book Fieldwork and Families: Constructing New Models for Ethnographic Research.

More recently, her work has appeared in Wounded Women of the Bible: Finding Hope When Life Hurts, Paul's Letter to the Philippians (BibleDude Community Commentary Series), and a few volumes of Chicken Soup for the Soul. She has work forthcoming in Soul Bare. Her Christmas tale, Yankee Doodle Christmas, is available as part of Kathi Macias' the Twelve Days of Christmas series. The characters from Yankee Doodle Christmas live on in Remembering for Ruth, a serial novel.