Every Sunday my family and I make dinner together. During this time, we get the chance to bond over things that have happened over the week. Instead of ordering take-out food or only having one person make a meal, we cook together to create new memories and learn better ways to make new meals. A meal that my mom taught us to make this Sunday is lasagna. The lasagna recipe in my family is incredibly tasty. It includes all fresh ingredients which make it more unique than a store-bought dinner.

          In the morning, we prepared the sauce. The sauce included onions, celery, carrots, garlic and tomatoes. It also contained other ingredients that are a secret to the family recipe.  Once the sauce sat and cooked for a few hours, we placed lasagna noodles on the sauce in a thirteen by nine pan. After this, we mixed the eggs, parmesan cheese and cottage cheese together in a large bowl. One third of this is spread over the noodles in a pan. My mom likes to shred her own fresh mozzarella so we took the block of cheese and sprinkled one layer over the pan. This was repeated two more times to complete the three layers. We then placed the pan in the oven set at three hundred seventy-five degrees for about forty-five minutes. Once the top layer was light brown and had a bubbly-looking texture, we took it out of the oven and prepared to eat the meal as a family. This Sunday not only taught me how to make a delicious, simple, home-cooked meal, but also that making dinner with your family can be a very fun tradition to continue on with my own family someday.