Woo hoo! Two weeks in a row I remembered to do the Four Foods On Friday. Though, after answering these questions you may think I need some diet pills. Here we go:

#1. What’s your favorite potato chip? Do Nacho Cheese Doritos count as a potato chip. Probably not, so I’d have to say I don’t really care for potato chips.
#2. Do you use butter, margarine, both or neither? Margarine
#3. What’s your favorite mixed alcoholic (or virgin) drink? Strawberry Margaritas
#4. What’s your favorite vegetable and how do you prepare it? Green Beans. I open the can and put in the pan and turn the stove on. LOL I don’t cook much, can you tell?

I know, I know — some weeks I actually remember to do this.  I love reading every else’s answers to the weekly questions too!  As I was making my slow cooker beef stew, I decided that I think I am going to start a cooking blog (which these weekly questions would go great on)!  But onto the questions:

#1. What is your favorite kind of juice to drink?  Umm, not a big juice drinker here, so I’ll go with orange juice.
#2. Pizza. What’s your favorite?  Pepperoni.
#3. Mustard. Yellow, brown, depends.  I hate mustard.
#4. Share a side dish recipe that uses rice or pasta.  I have to add this one later.  My laptop that has all my recipes on it blew up and until I can get it working again, I have no access to any of my recipes.  I am hoping to get this added to this shortly!

Want to join the Four Food On Friday?  Check it out here.

Okay, I have been slacking.  I keep forgetting to do this meme.  Here are the questions for this week:

#1. Bacon. Chewy, crispy or burnt?  Chewy.  Doesn’t that sound so yummy?
#2. Mayonnaise or miracle whip?  I am a miracle whip girl, but the hubby is a mayonnaise man.  Yes, we have a jar of each  in the house.

#3. What green vegetable is used in Italian Wedding soup?  Spinach (I had to look it up though - lol)

#4. Share a recipe that you use Italian sausage in.  Lasagna:

Ingredients:

1 box (16 oz) lasagna noodles
1 lb sweet Italian sausage
1 medium yellow onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
2 eggs
2 lbs ricotta cheese
2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese (8 oz)
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 jar (48 oz) seasoned tomato sauce

Makes 8 servings
Prep time: 25 minutes
Bake time: 1 hour

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Cook lasagna noodles as package directs; drain and rinse.

Meanwhile, in a nonstick skillet, cook sausage and onion till brown. Drain fat. Stir in garlic and red pepper flakes. Remove from heat and set aside.

In a large bowl, combine eggs, ricotta, mozzarella, Parmesan, and basil. Mix well.

Spread a layer of tomato sauce in a 13 x 9 inch baking dish; top with a layer of noodles. Cover noodles with a layer of the cheese mixture; top with some sausage mixture. Cover with a layer of sauce. Repeat layering with noodles, cheese mixture, sausage mixture, and sauce. Top with final layer of noodles and sauce.

Bake covered for 45 minutes. Uncover and bake about 15 minutes. Let stand for 5 minutes before serving.

Actually, the question in my house should have been “Could you let me take a picture of your sandwich before you eat it?”. The mustard connoisseur in my house is my husband. However, being a man, he isn’t real picky as long as it works. He was fairly excited though when I told him we were asked to try these Grey Poupon mustard varieties. He was so excited that he did not even allow me enough time to find the camera and take pictures of the two sandwiches he made for himself. Instead, I just took a picture of the two jars, so you can see what he tried.

Bill love the mustard. This is a guy who normally tells me to buy the cheapest thing possible. He actually requested that I pick up Grey Poupon next time I am grocery shopping! I informed him that it would be a little more expensive than the generic we normally by. His response was that he didn’t care, because it was that good. The other observation he made was that the course ground mustard would work better on a ham versus a ham sandwich. He would like the spicy brown variety on either.

Bill gives these two thumbs up. It is hard to get him to give me his opinion on anything, so it was quite surprising when he told me absolutely love these!

This recipe gets two thumbs up from me since it is quick and easy. However, if you are taking diet pills, I wouldn’t recommend this. It does have about 400 calories per serving.

2 packages (9 oz each) refrigerated cheese filled ravioli
1 jar (25 oz) chunky tomato pasta sauce
1 teaspoon dried basil leaves
2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

Heat over to 400 degrees F. Cook ravioli as directed on the packaging. Drain and set aside. In same saucepan, mix pasta sauce and basil. Cook over medium heat for about 5 minutes until heated. Stir in ravioli. Pour into ungreased 13×9 glass baking dish. Sprinkle cheese over the top. Bake uncovered for about 10 minutes or until sauce is bubbly and cheese is melted.

This makes about 6 servings and can be made in less than an hour. Here’s what the finished product looks like:

Yummy.