About once a year I set aside an entire afternoon and make a big batch of lasagna. This year that day was yesterday... November 12th. I went to the grocery store the day prior and bought about 225 dollars worth of ingredients. This was going to be enough to make five large pans, and one extra large pan of lasagna.
I bought four boxes of lasagna noodles, two big bags of spinach leaves, eight cans of various types of tomato, tomato paste and tomato sauce, six pounds of ground beef, and about fifteen pounds of cheese... mozzarella, swiss, cheddar, cottage and parmesan.
I made a huge pot of meat sauce and set it aside. Then I boiled all the lasagna noodles in batches. I set about assembling the five pans. I figure they must weigh about five pounds each, and certainly can feed a family, hopefully with a few leftovers for the next day. They are certainly more substantial and taste better than any pre-made frozen lasagna you can buy in the grocery store. But they cost a lot more too, so I guess you get what you pay for....!
I froze the five large pans that can be seen in the snapshot below, and we'll use these over the coming months. The sixth one was even bigger, and we baked that one for dinner. The girls had been pestering me to do this for some time, so I finally got around to it.
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