CREOLE LASAGNE Recipe

• Preheat oven 400* (when ready)
• 1# Lasagne noodles, cooked to directions
• Tomato Sauce (see recipe)
• White sauce (see recipe)
• 2 cups well-seasoned spinach (steamed)
• 1 1/2 cups grated cheese (Romano and smoked Swiss)
• 3 cups browned turkey sausage (diced)
• 1/2 cup cottage cheese
• Tomato Sauce:
• 1 sweet onion (minced)
• 2T. olive oil
• 2 large roasted tomatoes (peel,seed and dice)
• 2 cups Italian plum tomatoes (canned)
• 1/4 tsp. thyme
• 1 Bay leaf
• 3 cloves garlic (minced)
• 1/4 tsp. cloves
• 1/4 tsp. allspice
• 1/2 tsp. oregano
• sea salt and white pepper, to taste
• 1T Tabasco
• White Sauce:
• 1/2 cup minced sweet onion
• 8T. butter
• 8T. flour
• 3 1/2 cups warm milk
• 1/2 cup French Vermouth (or dry white wine)
• 1/2 cup chopped mushrooms
• sea salt and white pepper, to taste

Directions