Pizza Bake

I was trying to come up with something quick and easy tonight...so I made this concoction. It tasted so good!

Pizza Bake
1 bag of small shells (FREE from Basha's)
2 jars of Ragu chunky sauce (FREE from Safeway)
3 cups of Mozzarella Cheese
1 pound hamburger/ground beef
2 tsp oregano
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1 TBS Garlic

Boil noodles as per directions.
Brown ground beef with seasonings in large skillet.
Heat sauce in sauce pan.

Mix together in a casserole dish with 2/3rds of the cheese. Layer the top with the remaining cheese. Bake at 425 for 20-25 minutes.

The kids named it for me....Margaret said "mommy it tastes just like pizza." So there you have it! I think that it cost about $3.00 for the hamburger, cheese and our salad.

Pizza for less than $5

Who needs Delivery? Why pay the prices that Pizza Hut & Dominos demand? I made two extra large pizzas today for less than $5 and it was better than delivery and it wasn't even DiGiorno's!

I used the following EASY no rise dough from allrecipes.com (my favorite place for recipes on the net!) http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pizza-Dough-I/Detail.aspx



I made one cheese & another veggie...I was trying to duplicate Dominos American Legends Pacific Veggie and I think I did a pretty good job of it. I used my FREE Ragu sauce, my 99 cent cheese and I just grabbed veggies that I had in the fridge and used my handy dandy canned tomatoes. FANTASTIC doesn't describe it enough!

Let me know what you think~

Best Laid Plans!

You know, I woke up this morning thinking it would be a great day. I was off to a great start. I remembered to take the chicken, that I had gotten on sale from Safeway for 89 cents a pound a couple of weeks ago, out of the freezer. I knew that I was going to use my potatoes and Birds Eye veggies that I got for free from Fry's and life was good!

Then Karessa whined from her room, I don't feel good. Well she is 14,so I figure she can stay home by herself without burning down the house. So we left her at home and I started my day--which was pretty cool because I was on the local radio station talking about technology in schools. I didn't fumble too badly over my words! While at the radio station, my husband calls their non live line (thank goodness!) to tell me that our youngest daughter, Margaret, is in the nurses office and needs to come home. Ughhhhh!

Rushing back to school, posting my grades because of course they are due today! And then making substitute lesson plans for the rest of the day, I run home. Cleaning up these kind of messes are not what I enjoy most about being a parent! Then our middle daughter, Eve, called to say that she was sick and needed picked up from church. Now I have 1/2 of our family down with the sickness....let's hope and pray the other 1/2 stays healthy.

Needless to say my dominos coupons came in very handy tonight!!!