Lucy's Tutu

Lucy spent the morning with me.  We used some rolls of tulle to make a tutu.  She loved twirling in it. 

Mama's Recipe Box

Mom was a very good cook, a talent that skipped right over me and thankfully landed on my daughters.  She has a shoe box filled with recipes.  Most of them are clipped out of newspapers or magazines but some are hand-written.  I love looking at those and I thought I'd share them occasionally.  This first recipe is one of her specialties.  She loved this dish and so did the rest of the family.  She sometimes even tried to make a little section without cheese for me.  Mom was thoughtful like that.  She used to say she wondered what she did to make me dislike cheese since she loved it so much. 

Spaghetti Bake

1 1/2 lb. ground beef
1 cup chopped onions
1 garlic clove minced (dash garlic salt)
1 (28 oz.) can cut tomatoes
1 (15 oz.) can tomato sauce
1 (4 oz.) jar mushrooms drained and sliced
2 tsp. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. dried oregano, crushed
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. basil, crushed
8 oz. spaghetti cooked and drained
8 oz. pack of mozzarella cheese
1/3 cup parmesan cheese

Cook ground beef, chopped onion, and garlic until beef is brown and onion is tender.  Drain off fat.  Stir in tomatoes, tomato sauce, mushrooms, sugar, oregano, salt, basil.  Bring mixture to a boil and boil gently for 20-25 minutes, stirring occasionally.  Remove sauce from heat, stir in cooked spaghetti.  Pour half of spaghetti and sauce mixture into a 13x9 baking dish.  Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese.  Add rest of spaghetti mixture.  Top with parmesan cheese.  Bake at 375 for 30 minutes.

I didn't seriously proofread my typing of this recipe so use her instructions and ingredients if there's a difference between hers and mine.  

Working on the Den

We finished painting the den last week and had new flooring put down yesterday.  I like it a lot.  We still don't quite have everything organized but it's coming along.  Our next project will be the bathrooms.  That's a bigger job than we can tackle ourselves so we'll need to hire someone to do it.  Our hold-up is finding someone reliable to do the remodeling.  If anyone knows of someone in this area they would  recommend, please let us know.