Favourite recipes

LASAGNE easy version – a favourite!

700g – 1kg topside mince
2 onion finely chopped
½ teaspoon Italian Herbs
¼ teaspoon oregano
750 ml tin tomato soup
2 Tablespoon oil (approx)
1 teaspoon garlic
1 tin chopped tomatoes
½ jar tomato paste
Pepper & salt to taste
Cook onion & garlic for 2 minutes. Add mince and remaining ingredients. Cook altogether for 30 minutes minimum, stirring regularly. Whilst this is cooking make large cheese sauce.
Layer 1/3rd mince on bottom of large lasagne tray. Top with lasagne noodles and 1/3rd cheese sauce. Repeat layers. Add grated cheese and/or breadcrumbs if desired.
Bake @ 180oC for 1 hour.

CHEESE SAUCE for Lasagne

3 Tablespoon butter
3 Tablespoon flour
¼ teaspoon mustard powder
3 cup milk (or 1 cup milk powder & 3 c water)
1 cup grated cheese

Melt butter for 15 seconds. Add flour & mustard and mix until smooth. Then add a little milk at a time and mix until smooth until all milk mixed in and no lumps.
Heat 2 minutes in microwave. Stir and reheat 2 minutes. Repeat thrice. It will get lumpy at first. Just mix. Eventually it should smooth out or use whisk to finish smoothing out.
Add more milk if getting too thick.
When cooked (thickened) then add grated cheese & stir.

Christian Fellowship & work so often go hand in hand

Still here in Alice Springs, once again we were to experience the fellowship and hospitality that is so common to Christians, the first was an invitation to dinner at Gill’s who is the Community worker here, there we also met Dr Joy Sandefur who is the Dean of Anglican students at Nungalinya College in Darwin which principally trains aborigines for ministry positions in their local communities. We started to do the work that the Ascension church here needed, mostly it is of building maintenance: painting, fixing door locks, erecting curtain tracks, replacing old guttering on one side of the church, fixing & installing a reticulating watering systems in the garden, pruning trees, mending fences, etc. Thankfully Richard and Julie (together with Richard’s sister Judy all the way from Wellington, NZ) arrived within a few days to gives us a much needed hand. It was great to have their company again. We had missed them since Coober Pedy. More fellowship dinners included a marvellous BBQ at Deb’s unique permanent site caravan home with this wonderful South African Ox tail casserole as an added bonus made by her friend, George. Another evening we invited Gill for dinner too, once we stopped asking her questions about her work in the community long enough to let her actually eat her dinner!