Season 2; Week 4; Cindy's Spinach Lasagna Rolls

I love lasagna, so when I found a way to make it a little different, and more server-friendly I wanted to give it a try. This was fun to make and is great for entertaining because it is "pretty" and great for portion control.  Can't wait for you all to try it:

Ingredients:
1 Tablespoon olive oil
1 pound of ground Italian Sausage (whatever kind you like)
1 10-ounce package frozen leaf spinach, thawed, drained, chopped
1 15-oz container ricotta cheese
1/2 cup grated Parmesan
1 egg, beaten to blend
1 tablespoon chopped Italian parsley (I used dried)
salt and pepper
1 jar of your favorite prepared spaghetti sauce (I use Kroger's Marinara, it's $1 and taste great)
8 lasagna noodles, freshly cooked (do not overcook, al dente for handling). You will only use 6, but 2 extra just in case you have any that break
1 1/4 cups grated mozzarella

You'll also need:
A roll of wax paper if you don't have it (it's about $1-2 and in the aluminum foil section of the store)
An 8 x 8 square baking dish

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. Cook the Italian sausage in a frying pan until thoroughly cooked and in small pieces. Remove from pan, add a little more oil to pan and add spinach and cook until tender, about 4 minutes. Cool. Combine spinach, ricotta, Parmesan, egg and parsley in large bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Spread 1 cup of spaghetti sauce over bottom of 8-inch square baking dish.
Remove the al dente lasagna noodles from the pot individually and place on wax paper for drying and easy handling (the wax paper keeps them from sticking to the counter). Spread about about 1/3 cup ricotta mixture of each noodle. Sprinkle the cooked sausage (you will have some sausage left over, this will be added to the remaining sauce later) over the ricotta mixture, carefully roll up noodle, starting at 1 short end, to enclose filling. Arrange seam side down in prepared dish. Repeat with remaining noodles, 6 fit just right. Add remaining sausage to remaining spaghetti sauce then pour over noodles. Sprinkle with mozzarella. Bake until cheese melts, about 45 minutes.  I hope you love it!

                                                          Cindy's Lasagna Process

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                                                   Garrett's Lasagna....looks Delish!

                                                     Carla's Lasagna

                                                             Julie's Lasagna

Liz's Rolls. Yummmmmmm!