If you’ve just spent your whole week­end fore­cast­ing field goals, glaz­ing chicken wings and crack­ing cold ones, all while wear­ing your beer-drinkin’ hel­met, then maybe you should take it easy tonight.

Super Bowl week­end can take it out of you. Once all the gorilla mil­lion­aires have cleared the field to go sip cham­pagne in a pri­vate jet, you’re left vac­u­um­ing up Chex Mix while your buddy crushes empty beer cans on his fore­head. After clean­ing up and pop­ping a few Tylenol for that nag­ging hang­over, you deserve to take it easy.

Make sup­per as sim­ple as pos­si­ble, and try to get a few veg­gies in there meat-head.

Lazy Lasagna

This is a soup that mag­i­cally trans­forms into ooey gooey lasagna in the bowl. Alchemy at its best.

Ingredients

1 pound Italian sausage, or a mix of ground pork and beef

2 Tbsp. butter

about a dozen but­ton mush­rooms, chopped

2 zuc­chini, chopped

1 can, 28 oz. diced tomatoes

2 Tbsp. flour

1 cup 10% half & half cream

1/2 cup water

3/4 cup baby shell pasta

3/4 cup shred­ded cheese (moz­zarella or provolone)

salt, pep­per, oregano to taste

Steps

1. Remove sausage from cas­ings and crum­ble into deep pot over medium-high heat. Cook until no longer pink. Remove meat with slot­ted spoon to a bowl dis­card most fat left in the pot.
2. Add but­ter, let it melt before whisk­ing in flour. Let flour cook a minute or so before adding mush­rooms & zuc­chini to pot. Stir well and return meat to pot and add toma­toes, let it come up to a boil.
3. In another pot, cook pasta until al dente and set aside.
4. Reduce tomato pot to a sim­mer before adding cream and pasta, let sim­mer briefly. If too thick add some water. Adjust sea­son­ing and add oregano.
5. Divide cheese among soup bowls and ladle soup over top to melt the cheese.
6. Tell tra­di­tional lasagna to start lookin’ for a day job.