CHEESY TUNA LASAGNA ROLL UPS

If you have gone through my blog, you would see that I already have a Three Cheese Tuna Lasagna Recipe posted. However this recipe may be similar, there are elements that are a bit different as well. Typical lasagna like my other lasagna recipe, are arranged in layers of the protein, pasta and cheese and then baked. This dish, however, is more labor intensive but the end result is always more than worth it.

Ingredients:

12 lasagna noodles
2 cans of tuna
1 can condensed cream of mushroom
1/4 cup whole milk
1 cup cottage cheese
1 egg 
1/4 cup scallions/green onions
1 medium onion minced
2 tsp. garlic powder
2 tsp. dried parsley
1/2 cup of grated cheddar cheese
2 tbsp. grated parmesan cheese

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees C.

Cook the lasagna noodles as per package instructions.

For the sauce/filling, sauté the minced onions in a sauce pan then add the tuna. Pour in the cream of mushroom and milk. Season it with garlic powder and dried parsley.

Take it off the stove and add the scallions/green onions, egg and 1 cup cottage cheese and cheddar cheese.

Line the bottom of a 9x13 baking dish with the filling enough to cover the whole surface.

Arrange one cooked lasagna on a flat surface. Cover it with the filling and roll. Repeat the step on the remaining 12 noodles leaving enough filling to drizzle on top of the arranged lasagna later.

Arrange the rolled lasagna on the baking dish as shown in the photo.

Top it with the remaining filling and cheddar cheese. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese and garnish with dried parmesan.

Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes until the cheese has melted.

Easy to serve in individual portions. Pair it with garlic herb toast and you have one tasty filling meal. Enjoy.

EASY CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIES

Whenever we need snacks at home, we don't go out and buy stuff from the store anymore. For one, what we can buy commercially for snack like cookies, cupcakes and other treats, have ingredients that we're not sure is healthy for us. Next, they don't taste like what they're supposed to taste. And if you want to get the ones that are delicious like Keebler's Cookies, they're quite expensive.

Might as well make our own at home, right? We can control the ingredients that we know is good for us plus we can make it taste the way we want them.

So here's one easy recipe. Once you're done, you can have these cookies at home to snack on especially the kids. They will surely love it.

Ingredients:

1 cup of butter, room temperature
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs, room temperature
2 tbsp. vanilla
21/2 cups all purpose flour
2 tbsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
2 cups chocolate chunks or chocolate chips (preferably dark or semi-sweet)

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.

Line your baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone mat for the cookies not to stick and easy clean up.

Cream the butter with the 2 sugars until well blended. You can use any type of mixer or you can do this by hand.

Add the eggs to the butter mixture one at a time and then the vanilla. Mix well but do not over mix.

Sift the flour, baking soda and salt together using a sifter or just by whisking it. Pour it in the butter mixture a third of the whole dry ingredients at a time. Mix until there is no more flour sticking to your mixing bowl.

Add the chocolate chunks into the cookie dough and mix it by hand until the chunks are distributed all throughout.

Using an ice cream scooper to make sure all cookies are of the same amount plus uniform in shape, place a scoop of dough on the cookie sheet with 3 inches in between each cookie as the dough will spread in the baking process.

Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes or until the edge of the cookies have browned. It's better to take them out of the oven a little underdone as it will continue to cook while being cooled down.

Let it cool on the sheet for about three minutes then transfer the cookies to a cooling rack with a metal spatula.

Once the cookies have cooled down enough, you can enjoy the homemade goodness of this treat while enjoying the smell of freshly baked cookies all over your kitchen.

Enjoy. :)