Lasagna {Using Up Milk}

Using up milk can sometimes be a challenge.  With Charlotte giving almost 4 pounds a day (1/2 gallon), the mason jars quickly fill!  Although I have been drinking as much as I can, I still can't keep up!  So making Lasagna with Ricotta cheese is a great, easy way to use up the milk!  I love it when I can make a recipe with a full gallon of milk, along with many other ingredients that we have available from our little homestead!

Last night I made the Ricotta (See my post about making Ricotta.)  It used a gallon to make about 1 pound of fluffy curd!

This morning I dug out our zucchini lasagna recipe printed off from SkinnyTaste.com (Thanks to my aunt who is frequently inspired by that site's recipes!)

I browned several pounds of beef from our steer.  Yum!

I chopped the onion and a couple cloves of garlic.

I seasoned the meat and onions with some olive oil and salt...

...and some fresh basil!

Next came the crushed tomatoes.

And I let it simmer into a scrumptious sauce!

A bit of Parmesan cheese...

And an egg fresh from the chicken coop...

Made a nice Ricotta mixture.

After grilling the zucchini, I layered all of the ingredients.

And topped with Mozzarella cheese.

Yum!  A nice hardy Lasagna!  Thanks to Charlotte for her milk, the chickens for the egg, and the cows for the beef!  It is fun to live and eat on a farm!

Remember, you may find the full recipe here.