Gluten-Free Lasagna

This gluten-free lasagna is also meat-free, making it the perfect meal to serve to your vegetarian friends.  A fresh salad with fruit will complete your meal.  You may make the lasagna ahead, keeping it in the refrigerator until you are ready to bake it.  

1 package Rice Lasagna noodles (cook according to package)
28 oz. Ragu or similar Italian sauce
1 cup Mozzarella cheese (plus a little extra)
2 cups Ricotta cheese
2 cups Cottage cheese (if the grocery store is out of Ricotta, I use 4 cups Cottage cheese)
2 Eggs, slightly beaten
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
2 Tbsp. Parsley (1 Tbsp. dry)
1 tsp. Sugar
1/4 tsp. Pepper

Cook lasagna noodles.  Cover the bottom of a 9 x 13 inch glass pan with a spoonful of tomato sauce.  Arrange 4 lasagna noodles over the sauce.  Mix together the cheeses, eggs, parsley, sugar and pepper.  Put 1/3 of the cheese mixture on top of the noodles.  Repeat these layers again and again, so you have 3 layers of sauce, noodles and cheese, ending with a bit more sauce.  Sprinkle extra mozzarella and parsley on top.   Cover with foil sprayed with pan spray so it won’t stick.  Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.  Remove foil and bake 15 more minutes, or until bubbly.  Let lasagna set a few minutes before serving.  Enjoy!

Note: If you would like veggies added to your lasagna, you may layer them with the first two cheese layers.  Spinach, zucchini, green peppers, and carrots all make a yummy lasagna.

“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?   Matthew 6:25-26  (NKJV)

I Thirst

After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst!”  John 19:28 NKJV

Up again in the night for another feeding, I sat in bed nursing our new baby.  Though I had just sipped some water, my throat was still dry, since nursing requires a great deal of fluids.

“I thirst,” I mused.  And then I thought of Jesus and His words from the cross.  “I thirst,” He whispered weakly. The people heard and offered Him vinegar on a sponge.  Then Jesus died for our sins.

This is Jesus who proclaimed “I am the Living Water.” Yet on the cross He thirsted.  When Jesus said, “My God, my God, why have You forsaken Me?” perhaps at that moment He was alone, a perfect Man, the spotless Lamb, not God the Living Water. For at that moment God had left Him so He could die for our sins. Thus Jesus thirsted.

This is what our Jesus did for us. Thank You, dear Jesus.  May I remember what You did for me on the cross every time I thirst.  Amen.

Today’s  TEA CUPP:  Read Matthew 27:45-54.  Thank Jesus for His gift of life.  Remember Jesus every time you thirst.

 But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”  John 4:14 NKJV

New King James Version (NKJV)Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

Petitions: With my whole heart

Today’s TEA CUPP:  Praying God’s Word.

Here is a verse to pray today as we POUR out our hearts to Jesus, giving Him our  PETITIONS.

I cry out with my whole heart;
         Hear me, O LORD!
         I will keep Your statutes.  Psalm 119:145 (NKJV)

New King James Version (NKJV)Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

Promises: For our children

Today’s TEA CUPP: Praying God’s Word.

Here’s a PROMISE from God’s Word to claim during our TEA CUPP time with Jesus today:

 But from everlasting to everlasting
   the LORD’s love is with those who fear Him,
   and His righteousness with their children’s children.  Psalm 103:17 (NIV)

New International Version (NIV)Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica

Understand: I would have perished

Today’s TEA CUPP:  Praying God’s Word.

Here’s another verse to help us UNDERSTAND our story, as we pray and share TEA with Jesus today:

If Your law had not been my delight,
   I would have perished in my affliction. Psalm 119:92 (NIV)

New International Version (NIV)Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica

Petitions: Revive us, O Lord

Today’s TEA CUPP:  Praying God’s Word.

Here is a PETITION to pray for ourselves, family and friends.  Replace “me” with names from your prayer list:

Revive me according to Your lovingkindness,
         So that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth.   Psalm 119:88 (NKJV)

New King James Version (NKJV)Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

 

 

Promises: He loves us!

Today’s TEA CUPP: Praying God’s Word.

Here’s a PROMISE from God’s Word to claim during our TEA CUPP time with Jesus today:

For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
   so great is His love for those who fear Him.  Psalm 103:11 (NIV)

New International Version (NIV)Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica

Give me Understanding

Today’s TEA CUPP:  Praying God’s Word.

Here’s another verse to help us UNDERSTAND our story, as we pray and share TEA with Jesus today:

Your hands have made me and fashioned me;
         Give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.  Psalm 119:73 (NKJV)

New King James Version (NKJV)Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

Petitions: Do good

Today’s TEA CUPP:  Praying God’s Word.

Here is a PETITION to pray for ourselves, family and friends.  Replace “Your servant” with names from your prayer list:

Do good to Your servant
   according to Your word, LORD.   Psalm 119:65 (NIV)

New International Version (NIV)Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica

 

Promises: He is coming!

Today’s TEA CUPP: Praying God’s Word.

Here’s a PROMISE from God’s Word to claim during our TEA CUPP time with Jesus today:

...For He is coming, for He is coming to judge the earth.
         He shall judge the world with righteousness,
         And the peoples with His truth.  Psalm 96:13  (NKJV)

New King James Version (NKJV)Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.