It was a baking kind of day...

Yesterday school was canceled because of the weather.  Apparently the administration thought it would be mean to make kindergartners stand at the bus stop with rain blowing sideways at 60 mph.  That left us at home to cozy on in for the day.  First order of business was to take care of our drafty door...ghetto style. 

Yes. Yes that IS red duck tape around my door and I did indeed tape my scarf to the door as well.  It's not usually so drafty, but the wind was blowing directly from the south and directly through my door.         

After that we figured we would warm up the house by turning on the oven and doing a bit of baking :) 

  We discovered banana bread is really good warm with Nutella.

Cream 1 c sugar, 1 c butter and 2 eggs

Mix in 3 ripe bananas, 1 T milk, 1 T ground cinnamon and 1/4 t nutmeg

Mix in 1 t baking powder, 1 t baking soda, 1 t salt and 2 c flour

Bake at 425 for 15 minutes.  Turn oven down to 325 for an hour. 

Lasagna with sausage, mushrooms and spinach. 

Saute one onion, chopped
8 oz chopped mushrooms
1 lb sausage
Stir in one can diced tomatoes and 28 oz spaghetti sauce

In another bowl mix ricotta cheese, 2 eggs, one package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained and 1/2 c grated Parmesan cheese.

Layer in 9x13 pan
sauce
lasagna noodles
1/3 ricotta mixture
sauce
mozzarella cheese
noodles
ricotta
sauce etc.
Bake covered at 375 for an hour-ish.

No Fail French Bread.  Seriously.  You can't mess this recipe up.

In your mixing bowl put in 6 c flour, 1 T salt, 2 T yeast 3 T sugar.  Mix.  Pour in 1/3 c oil and 2-21/2 c hot water.  Mix for 5 minutes.  Cover and let double.  Divide dough in half.  Roll each half out to a rectangle.  Roll up and slash across the top with a knife.  Bake at 375 for 15ish minutes.