Lasagna (Frozen)

We used regular, uncooked lasagna noodles and this turned out very well.

Lightning Yakisoba

A very easy stir fry. Flower, root, stem, or bulb vegetables are best to use as leaf vegetables become soggy when cooked. We recommend broccoli and carrots.

If you can not find store bought, use this Yakisoba sauce recipe.

Pasta Fagioli

There are so many different ways to make this bean and pasta soup. This is just a rough guideline.

Noodles


Home made noodles are much better than store bought.  They take a little extra time but are easy and very good. We always use a noodle maker since we have one, but rolling the dough by hand does not take a lot of time.

While the recipe says to let the noodles dry, you can cook them right away if you want.  They are excellent with butter and garlic, with your favorite sauce or in chicken broth.

For colorful variety, add some pumpkin puree or spinach to the dough.  You will need to add extra flour, but the different colors and taste is fun.

Auntie Kristi’s Alfredo Sauce

Aunt Kristi gave Andrea this recipe.  She also included the directions for making a huge pot for camp 🙂  This is one of Andrea’s favorite ways to eat noodles.

If desired, add some cooked chicken pieces.  Serve with garlic bread and a colorful salad.

This is also great on zucchini noodles or your favorite steamed vegetables.

Dumplings

My Great Grandma Zetsell shared the “recipe” for these dumplings, though my father thinks the recipe was brought from England with my great great Grandma Heighes. He said that they were a very inexpensive way to fill up hungry tummies when times were tight.

Dumplings are wonderful in chicken broth, with veggies, or with sausage, fried onions, mushrooms, garlic and butter.  My favorite way though, is warm with some good butter and salt and garlic.

They do not reheat very well, so only make enough for one night.

(What fun, I learned that they are also called Kluski Kładzione and they are a polish drop noodle.  Some recipes use milk in place of the water!)