Leons Headlines April 14: Fresh off winning 1st Presidents’ Trophy, Wpg Jets fall 4-1 to Oilers Sunday. Jets won Presidents’ Trophy as NHL regular-season leader just hours earlier, another NHL first.
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SHORT WORK WEEK. Time for Easter treats. What foods do you LOVE at easter. My favorite is a baked macaroni and cheese dish fried! Ooooh. Here’s a recipe using wieners however we use bacon in ours. Sunseekers Cindy and Lindy offered some recipes to help out with this delicious food!
Ukranian Pasta Bake | Baked Lokshyna-Linda Horvath Johnson
“Lokshyna” are Ukrainian noodles, and today we’ve dressed them up with plenty of sizzling bacon, creamy cottage cheese, and a couple of cracked eggs to bind the casserole together. The finishing touch is a happy sprinkling of buttered breadcrumbs (as few or as many as you’d like). One note on authenticity: traditional versions of this recipe are made with fresh egg noodles.
Cook Time
30-35 minutes
Ingredients
1/2 lb egg noodles , prepared (about 6 cups)
8 slices bacon
Cheese sauce:
2 cups cottage cheese
1/4 cup half and half
2 eggs
salt
pepper
Topping
1/3 – 1/2 cup bread crumbs
1/4 cup butter , melted
Instructions
Cook the noodles until al dente. Run cool water over them to stop the cooking and set aside. Preheat the oven to 350F. In a large bowl, mix together the cottage cheese, half and half, eggs, and seasoning. Plenty of pepper gives the pasta bite.
Stir the cooked pasta. Set aside. Cook the bacon, then chop when cool enough to handle. Add the chopped bacon and any accumulated bacon fat into the pasta mixture. Pour into a buttered or oiled 3 quart casserole.
Next, melt the butter and stir it together with some breadcrumbs until the mixture resembles wet sand. Sprinkle on top of the casserole and bake for 30-35 minutes, until golden brown and bubbling. Enjoy!
Two weeks today we vote in Canada. Once again it looks like it will be a massive turnout for those over 65 but for young people, voter numbers is always lower. Should we lower the age to 16?
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