I have a really nice lasagna pan. The only problem is that it is so large
that it makes about 12 servings and this is not something we want. I like
lasagna well enough to eat it maybe 2 or 3 times a year. Angela will eat it
maybe once or twice a year. So it's not something we want in the freezer.

I was determined to make just two portions of the stuff. I looked at Target
and couldn't find a suitable baking dish. None were small enough and deep
enough. So I decided to use my glass bread pan.

I began to boil the noodles and that's where the trouble began. I couldn't
find the cooking directions! Only to find that I had purchased the no boil
noodles. I really HATE those things. They never seem to come out right. I
had already boiled them for a minute so I just shut the heat off. I went
ahead and put the whole package in because it looked to me like it would
only be slightly more than I needed. Turns out that was wrong.

I bought a small zucchini. I also had a small amount of chopped onion in
the fridge and a red and green pepper. So I chopped the things that weren't
chopped already and sautéed them. Prior to doing that I cooked down some
chopped spinach. Then I began to assemble.

Lo and behold I had no mozzarella! Grrr... I had some mixes of mozzarella
and parmesan and also a four cheese blend. I opted to use the one open
package which was mozzarella and parmesan.

I decided to use a jar of pasta sauce that was old. We hadn't liked it
much. It was a two pack from Costco. Turned out it was expired. Fine by
me! We didn't really like it anyway. I opted to put it down the sink.
Yeah, we are not supposed to but on the other hand, Biobags are no good for
wet stuff. So far the sink hasn't clogged.

Grabbed the jar of Amy's. Also pretty old but not expired. Began
assembling. I had to grab the noodles with some tongs. They were hot and
slightly soft. They were too long to fit my pan. And because they were
only slightly cooked, they wouldn't bend over. That's usually what I do
when they are too long. So I had to cut them with scissors.

Turned out that I cooked twice as many veggies as I really needed. But I
put them all in anyway. I always put a layer of those instead of a layer of
pasta. So what I wound up with was a pan flush to the top with pasta. No
real room to cover it with sauce like you are supposed to do with the no
boil. Grrrr...

I put the dish in the fridge, covered with plastic wrap. Also the remainder
of the sauce in the jar. When it comes time to bake it, I will put it on a
foil lined cookie sheet and hope for the best. I will put the rest of the
sauce on it, or as much of it as I can and cover it with foil. Will not add
the additional cheese until it is baked through.

The main problem I will have tomorrow is that the stuff needs to bake for an
hour because it is the no boil. I just hope we get home in time to bake it
for that long. We have a hair appointment tomorrow and Angela's hair can
take a long time to do. And then we have to stop at the mail place to send
in our hair samples.

I just hope this becomes something edible. Angela has been looking at
Youtube videos for how to cook stuff. She thinks I need to too. Things
were sooo much easier when I didn't have to worry about carbs or food
allergies and had a husband at home who would eat whatever we didn't.