Chicken Lasagna

Last week, I made a modified version of One-Pan Sage-and-Onion Chicken and Sausage and because of my modifications (I’m sure), I wasn’t that big of a fan of what I’d made. I didn’t have sage so I used different herbs and spices and somehow, it was just a bit too sweet for my taste. Maybe it was the proportions I got wrong. Who knows. Anywho, I decided I could use the chicken for a different recipe later on and I did!

I took my chicken off the bone and cut it up into small shreds. I kept the sausage for something else. It can even be eaten as is. I diced up onions and some garlic and sauted it in some extra virgin olive oil. I then added the chicken, a can of chopped tomatoes and 2 cans of tomato sauce to the pot. Meanwhile, I cooked my lasagna noodles. Once all the flavors of the sauce were cooked together, I made up my lasagna, complete with mozzarella, ricotta and parmesan cheese and baked for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. The flavor I didn’t care of in the chicken alone was perfect in the lasagna!

Friday Night Lights

Tonight’s episode of Friday Night Lights will include yours truely as “Random Visitor Fan #259” and “Random Home Fan #87”. Let’s see if I actually get any TV time….

——-UPDATE——-

You know, they said that what we filmed could be used in either episode 2 or 3 but I didn’t figure they’d use the ENTIRE football game scene in episode 3! ARGH!! I don’t wanna wait another week!!!

Thoughts provoked

My friend Estelle, a band director in the DFW area, wrote this in her blog the other day:

A few of the kiddos at the HS are really stressed these days. I think at times we put too much pressure on them. Too many adults forget that they are in fact kids. We ask them to be mature, act like an adult, always behave, learn this, study that…. but when do we let them be kids? We pressure them with adult tendencies, but deny them adulthood. Where is the balance?

This really spoke to me. In order to teach kids to be good adults, we have to almost jar them into adulthood. Or do we? Sure is something to think about.