Shannon here: I’m excited to have my book, Counting on the Cowboy re-released in a two in one collection with Jill Lynn’s title, Her Texas Cowboy. I’m sharing a recipe for Crockpot Lasagna today. Comment or answer the question in any post dated April 14th – 17th to enter the drawing for a copy. Deadline: April 25th, 11:59 pm central time.
Counting on the Cowboy is the final book in my Texas Cowboy series. Set at a familiar dude ranch established in book 2 of the series, the heroine, city girl/wedding planner Devree Malone leaves her Dallas home to help her pregnant sister, who’s on bed rest. Devree is way out of her element in Bandera, TX on a dude ranch with farm animals. Especially where Brock McBride is concerned since the handsome carpenter has sworn off city girls.
I’m pretty sure there is lasagna at the buffet on the dude ranch since it’s one of my favorites. For years, I never made it very often. I like quick and easy recipes, so it seemed too complicated to cook those big, floppy lasagna noodles and then bake it. I tried the kind you supposedly don’t have to cook first, but there were always gummy parts or hard edges, so I gave up.
Until a friend from church brought it, in a crockpot. With bowtie pasta instead of lasagna noodles. Yum. I was hooked. As usual, I tweaked a few things until my family said it was perfect. Here’s my Recipe:
Bow Tie Crockpot Lasagna
- 1 lb. Italian Sausage
- 1 16 oz. pkg. farfalle bow tie pasta, cooked
- 1 32 oz. jar Prego Italian Sausage with Garlic spaghetti sauce
- 1 small onion chopped
- 1 1/2 tsp minced garlic
- ½ tsp. Italian seasoning
- salt and pepper to taste
- 15 oz. container cottage cheese
- ¼ cup Parmesan cheese
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella
Instructions
Cook on high for about 1 1/2 hours or on low for about 3 hours.Sprinkle the Parmesan cheese.
About me: Award winning author, Shannon Taylor Vannatter writes contemporary Christian cowboy romance and has over a dozen published titles. A romance reader since her teens, she hopes to entertain Christian women and plant seeds in the non-believer’s heart as she demonstrates that love doesn’t conquer all—Jesus does.
She gleans fodder for her fiction in rural Arkansas where she spent her teenage summers working the concession stand with her rodeo announcing dad and married a Texan who morphed into a pastor. In her spare time, she loves hanging out with her husband and son, flea marketing, and doing craft projects.
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About the collection:
Counting on the Cowboy by Shannon Taylor Vannatter
Texas cowboy Brock McBride knows better than to fall for a city girl. She’ll leave and break his heart—just like his ex-fiancée did. But his job at Chasing Eden Dude Ranch requires working alongside Dallas wedding planner Devree Malone. And despite fierce resistance, he’s falling hard. Yet with Devree’s business back in the city, can he convince her she’s found her home…with him?
Her Texas Cowboy by Jill Lynn
When Rachel Maddox returns to her hometown of Fredericksburg, Texas, avoiding her ex is much easier said than done. Still nursing the broken heart Rachel caused years earlier, rancher Hunter McDermott figures he can be cordial for the brief time she’s in town—maybe they can even be friends. But how do you forge just a friendship with someone you’ve always pictured as your bride?
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Counting on the Cowboy & Her Texas Cowboy Western Collection – ChristianBook
Counting on the Cowboy & Her Texas Cowboy Western Collection – Amazon
Question for Readers: What’s your favorite Italian dish you make at home or from a restaurant?
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I usually make lasagna in the oven on special occasions but my oven us broken now. Thank you for the crockpot recipe. My crockpot is working fine so I will have to try this!
You’re welcome. You can use ground beef and I’ve even made it with ground turkey. But we love Italian sausage.
Love making spaghetti with Italian sausage,onions,garlic and peppers
Italian sausage is good in just about anything, Shelia. In my opinion anyway.
Mmm…sounds yummy, I need to try it! I love slow cooker meals – so easy! I’ve just tried chocolate cake in slow cooker-delicious!
Favorite Italian meal is Zuppa Toscana soup, kids love it too
Wow, I never thought of cake in a slow cooker. I guess you can cook just about anything in one. I’ve never had that soup. I’ll have to look into it.
Thanks for sharing your recipe. I will definitely try it because any recipe using a slow cooker is such a joy! I make Spaghetti almost every week and my recipe is the basic recipe. Browned hamburger, tomato sauce, and spices but I often add diced green pepper and brown sugar.
Blessings, I pray all of you stay well!
Especially since we’ve all been home, I’ve made lasagna several times. I try to make at least 2 pans so I can freeze left overs and not have to cook again.
Last night I made my all time favorite chicken Alfredo. I don’t get to make this very often but I found a recipe years ago for olive garden Alfredo and its become a special occasion go to recipe. Love this!
I love alfredo, Lisa. But my husband and son don’t. Sometimes I make spaghetti and they have it with regular sauce, while I eat alfredo. My favorite dish at Olive Garden is Shrimp Carbonara. It’s supposed to come with chicken too, but I have them leave that off. I love shrimp and I love chicken, but I don’t really want them together.
My favorite Italian dish would be crockpot lasagna with homemade sauce. However, my kids prefer spaghetti 🍝
My husband and son like spaghetti better too, Lisa. I like it, but it’s kind of boring compared to lasagna. Everything is better drowned in cheese.
My favorite is spaghetti and sauce with or without meat. I’ve made lasagna in the crockpot. It is super easy!
I’m all about super easy, Linda. I’m not crazy about cooking, but I do love eating.
My husband loves spaghetti and he makes it so well! I like lasagne and your recipe looks yummy!
I made a few changes, Linda. The original calls for beef, less sauce, and the sauce and noodles are two different layers. But I like my noodles drowing in sauce and Italian sausage has more spice than beef.
Just spaghetti. Nothing overly fancy. Most the time I dont have time for more than the can of spaghetti sauce. But when I do I use my grandmas recipe. She wasn’t Italian and I’m not sure if she got it from an Italian or not.
I use whatever’s easiest, Jennifer. But my friend makes her own sauce and it’s really good.
I can spaghetti sauce when my tomatoes are ripe then it makes for a quick meal. I made homemade pizza last night using my home canned tomato sauce seasoned up.
I bet that’s good, Lucy. Canning is almost a lost art.
I’m not one hundred percent sure if it’s technically Italian or not, but I have an Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana recipe that we love! It has Italian sausage, bacon, potatoes and kale. It’s one of our go to dishes.
That sounds yummy, Rebekah. We love Olive Garden.
Oh my goodness, I haven’t made lasagna in years! I love Ricotta cheese vs cottage cheese though. I know there are people in both camps, though 🙂 Anyway, this is another recipe I’m going to be making. I know my family will enjoy it! But will substitute ground turkey for Italian sausage.
For Italian food, I make spaghetti or buy a take-and-bake pizza for dinner. I also have a delicious recipe for chicken alfredo using cream cheese, so yummy! All this talk of food has made me hungry. I think I’d I had to choose what kind of food to eat for the rest of my life, Italian it would be. There’s so much variety 🙂
Thank you for the fun blog post and giveaway chance Shannon!
That should read “I think if I had to choose what kind of food”, sorry for the typo! Autocorrect strikes again 🙂
I make plenty of typos, trust me, Trixi. I knew what you meant. The original recipe actually called for ricotta, but I’m in the cottage cheese camp. I hate cottage cheese, except in lasagna. I bet your alfredo rocks. Cream cheese makes everything yummy. I’m with you, I could live on Italian for the rest of my life and be happy.
I think lasagna is my favorite Italian food, but I get it from a restaurant. Your recipe sounds like something I could handle and absolutely delicious too!
I think lasagna is my favorite too, Lisa. But usually get carbanara or alfredo at restaurants. Things my family won’t eat or that I don’t cook at home.
My favorite Italian dish is Spaghetti Carbonara, very easy to make and very delicious.
I love Carbonara, Linda. I need to find a recipe.
Love the recipe sounds so Yummy as I Love Lasagna Thank you for sharing your recipe and in The Crock Pot I will be trying This recipe! Thanks for the chance to win your book!
I don’t know what I’d do without a crockpot, Sarah.
I have a winner for the two in one collection, Jill and I share! Congrats Rebekah Miller! I appreciate Jill for being my guest and everyone else for stopping by.