Lasagna

During the winter you can never go wrong with warm comfort food. These types of dishes make you feel good when you are cold and need a hot homemade dish to warm you up. The perfect dish to help you through the harsh winter is Lasagna. It is meaty, creamy, and easy to make. It is time consuming but is a dish that will never fail to impress. I hope you enjoy my go-to winter recipe that your whole family will enjoy!

Ingredients:
3 stalks celery
2 carrots
2 boxes no cook lasagna noodles
1 medium onion
1 pound ground beef
1 pound ground pork
1 cup red wine
2 large can strained tomato
2 sprigs rosemerry
1 bay leaf
1/2 pound container of parmesan cheese
3 cups milk
5 tablespoons flour
5 tablespoons butter
4 teaspoons salt

First in a food processor pulse the celery, carrots, and onion together until finely chopped.

Drizzle some olive oil in the pot and cook the vegetable mixture in the pot with the beef and pork until the meat is fully cooked. deglaze the pan with the red wine and with a spoon stir to get all the bits off the side of the pan.

Before being deglazed

After the pan is deglazed with the wine, add the 2 cans of tomatoes and still until combined. Then add the rosemary, 2 teaspoons salt, and a bay leaf and let the sauce cook for about an hour until it is fully cooked.

Next, in a pot add the butter and flour over medium heat, keep the ratio of butter and flour even because then the roux will be too wet or too dry. To the roux add warm milk and 2 teaspoons of salt and whisk together until combined.

Take the white sauce off the heat and bring over to where you are going to assemble the lasagna. First put a little bit of red sauce on the bottom of the dish so that the noodles will cook. Then one layer of noodles, another layer of red sauce and then a layer of white sauce. Next drizzle some cheese over the top and repeat this 1-2 more times until it is the final layer.

The final layer is different, it is the noodle then red sauce and lastly coat with cheese.

Put the lasagna in the oven at 350 degrees fahrenheit for 30 minutes, follow the time on the pasta box so that your noodles aren't raw. Take out of the oven and enjoy!