I hope everyone had a great Memorial Weekend. Some of my family came up to visit, and it was great. The hubby did all the cooking, and everyone enjoyed that.

Everyone arrived Saturday morning around lunch time, and the chef was ready to cook. A few weeks ago we had bought Rachael Ray's The Book of Burger. Every once in a while I'll be in the mood for a burger, and for this weekend, I was in the mood.

So I requested that my hubby cook from that book, the following:
Buffalo Turkey Burgers and Extra Crispy Jalapeno Poppers.

For a quick appetizer we had some veggies and used some of the blue cheese gravy as a dip.

Instead of the burger bun, we opted to use ciabatta bread. They were easy to make and delicious.

The Jalapeño Poppers

I sipped on a Bloody Mary while we waited for the food. So refreshing!

Everyone was pretty stuffed after this, but we still had lasagna from scratch to make for dinner. The meat sauce took about 3 hours to cook, so in the mean time we took a dip in the pool to cool off and relax.

This is a picture of the lasagna before it was put into the oven to bake. We had just bought this Mario Batali Lasagna pan, so we put it to use.

One thing we did wrong, was when the lasagna was done, we had to wait 20 minutes before we could cut into it. Waiting that time would set in the lasagna and make it sturdier. We unfortunately did not wait those 20 minutes. It was about 9pm and everyone was hungry, so we waited 5 minutes and served it.

This is how it looked on the plate, not so attractive, but it tasted it really good, I promise.