Happy Valentine's Day

From all of us at Ike's house to all of you and yours...

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Back to the cooking portion of our program...

OK, so the last few posts have had very little to do with cooking and more with Ike and his desire to become a top hunting dog/model, so I thought it would be good to return to the cooking portion of the blog. I was recently asked by one of the blog followers, "How about some easy after work home style dishes. One or two bowls, cook in the oven for 1/2 or so with easy clean up... Well, we made one of those tonight... Granted we decided today to make some red sauce - my DirecTV is on the fritz so Sandy thought, "Let's make a red sauce- can't watch basketball or NASCAR!" so we made that and then she thought "Spaghetti Pie". It's easy, quick and you don't need to use a home made sauce, there are some pretty good bottled ones out there.

Got the recipe from Cooks.com (link below)

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1626,146173-243207,00.html

Only change we made was using ricotta instead of cottage cheese- I think a 9x9 square pan would work great too and we broiled it for about 3 minutes at the end to get the cheese brown and toasty. Anyway, here are some pics of it.

It really held together very well and will without a doubt be consumed as leftovers in the next couple of evenings :)

Oh one more thing, I readily admit to not being much of a baker, but if you get the right tools even I can make a pretty nice looking cake. Wilton heavy 9" no stick pans, Parchment paper, a revolving turntable to frost and offset spatulas for applying the frosting makes baking a cake not NEARLY as imposing a task...

My great niece Kyri says, "I love Uncle Steve's cake!"