Donnie made some lobster ravioli the other night and we had some ricotta left over so I wanted to use it up before it went bad. I also had some lasagna noodles left over, but I didn't want to make a whole, big lasagna.

So I cooked the noodles, browned some meat, and made little individual lasagnas. I spread out the cheese, and then sprinkled the meat on top. Some I remembered to put a little dried basil & garlic powder on there too, but I think next time I'll just add all the seasoning to the meat.


Then I rolled it up.


I poured some sauce on the bottom of the dish I seem to use for everything & added some of the left over meat to it. Then I set each roll in the dish.


I poured more sauce over the top. If I had some mozzarella, I might have melted some of that on top too. But I didn't. So I put a little parmesan on at the end.




I had the oven pre-heated to 375 and then turned it up to 400 when I put them in. I left them in there for about 20 minutes. I think it was 20. :)


Donnie was hungry.

I think it turned out pretty well. I'm sure I'll make some up again. Definatly before I make another lasagna.

More Livejournal inspiration here. The first version of this was with left-over lasagna stuff.

I remembered seeing this before while I was killing time. I took my left over ground beef (which was seasoned with some garlic powder and cilantro) and reheated it in a pan with the unused lasagna noodles that I tore into smaller pieces. I also made some pesto loosely based on this resipe. and just mixed it all together. It was pretty great.

Then I went back to find the original recipe that inspired me and saw there was cheese. So I wanted to try it that way.

I put some cilantro into the meat (still using ground beef, not pork. I don't really like pork that much.) again and a little thyme. Less garlic powder this time because I knew there was already a lot in the pesto.


I also happened to have some penne sitting around, so I used up the rest of that. Although, I did like the lasagna noodles better.


Once they were done I drained and threw them in with the meat.


Once everything got a little mixed together, I dumped some mozzarella on top & let it get all melty, stirring it up some more.


All done!


Oh, and a little parmesan on top. :)