Lasagna – even Garfield nods in appreciation

JimNightshade · #1 25th October 2018, 10:17 AM

Made the sauce yesterday.
Made the bechamel bout am hour ago.
Layered the thing less than an hour ago…
Visited a bakery and got fresh, crunchy baguette.

Wrapped my lasagna in silver foil, after dressing it in Prosciutto, slices of buffalo mozzarella, and Parmesan cheese.

Last 15 minutes I took the silver foil lid off. It became a crunchy cheesy top layer. That is good.

The Oven said ‘ping’!

I will grab a glass of red wine.

The lasagna is cooling off.

I lit a candle, cause thats cool. I will now eat and be happy.

If you have no lasagna, then it sucks to be you.

Sorry. I feel for you. Let us cry together, sometime in the future.

Now I must eat and watch bicycles on Eurosport.

All the best.

(If you have a little dogie, a Tibetan Carpet Pisser ™, please for the love of Og tell it to shut the fuck up!. Real doggies agree to be Good Doggos (tm) while they await their tasty bits. Real Doggos are patient, loving, and slobbery )

Khampelf · #2 25th October 2018, 10:24 AM

Your lasagna sounds like quite the magnifience. Enjoy every bite!

I have no lasagna, but there are plans to get Thai food for lunch.

JimNightshade · #3 25th October 2018, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Khampelf

Your lasagna sounds like quite the magnifience. Enjoy every bite!

I have no lasagna, but there are plans to get Thai food for lunch.

I wish you a fantastic lunch!

tunaman · #4 25th October 2018, 12:09 PM

My uncle lived at home with his parents most of his life. He was actually a pretty good cook, and every Christmas he'd come to our house (with the much larger kitchen) to make 30 smallish pans of lasagna to give out as gifts.

One of my biggest regrets in life - aside from not doing more to help him stop drinking, which is what killed him - is that I never got the recipe for his lasagna. It was so good, and that fact that it's gone forever haunts my dreams.

PSXer · #5 25th October 2018, 12:43 PM

how discerning is Garfield's lasagna taste anyway? He seems like he'd shovel any lasagna into his gullet without even tasting it

C2H5OH · #6 25th October 2018, 02:25 PM

Your thread has given me an evil idea. I read it and wanted to make lasagna. So I looked up a recipe, and checked what I have. I don't have what I need, but I've got to go grocery shopping tomorrow, and I was gonna get the stuff I don't have so I can make a batch of Kapusniak, a Polish cabbage soup that I make every now and then. Lasagna shares a significant number of ingredients. So I'm gonna make Polish-Italian Kapusniak-Lasagna! (or Italian-Polish Lasagna-Kapusniak! I personally prefer the first nomenclature formulation. It scans better. But maybe that's just because I'm Polish and not Italian.)

Why is this evil, you ask? Because the Catholic churches (of which my mother is a member of one) in my town have to consolidate due to various reasons, and it's still in the 'planning stage', but the biggest push-back (that I've heard about, anyway) is between the 'Italian' and 'Polish' parishes. If this turns out well, I'm gonna make it for the next 'bring a dish to share' dinner I make something for. And watch the heads explode! On BOTH sides!

ETA: My mother loves the idea, too. Show 'em that the fusion is even better than the insular bullshit.

I'm actually looking forward to the actual recipe I came up with. It should be quite yummy...

Khampelf · #7 25th October 2018, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by PSXer

how discerning is Garfield's lasagna taste anyway? He seems like he'd shovel any lasagna into his gullet without even tasting it

Some lasagna is for eating, some is for sitting in.

krisolov · #8 25th October 2018, 03:58 PM

waitaminute. Bechamel sauce? Prosciutto?

Nay. A Bolognese and a good ricotta with an egg mixed in, and some italian seasoning like the good Italian families I grew up with made.

No offense, yours sounds all fancy and stuff. I'm sure it was very nice.

Guinastasia · #9 25th October 2018, 06:32 PM

So this is lasagna with a white sauce, correct? That sounds VERY good!

Jaglavak · #10 25th October 2018, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by PSXer

He seems like he'd shovel any lasagna into his gullet without even tasting it

Garfield rules of etiquette: always chew your food at least once.

JimNightshade · #11 26th October 2018, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Guinastasia

So this is lasagna with a white sauce, correct? That sounds VERY good!

Well yeah, Its just butter, melted, a spoon of white flour, milk added, whisk whisk and salt and pepper, a hit of nutmeg, some chicken stock, more milk as it thickens, whisk whisk, and bob's your uncle. If you are lazy it might take 5 minutes. The chef's call it bechamel, cause they like fancy names. At the end of the day its just a white sauce.

Makes all the difference though. The mixture of meat, lasagna, white sauce, cheese and salty ham - this is what caused the angels to sing back in biblical times.

For all I know they are still singing from the memory. It becomes increasingly hard to flap your wings though as you consume lasagna.

I am not a biblical scholar so I have no idea what happened next. Maybe Dio can tell us.

krisolov · #12 27th October 2018, 03:24 PM

Mmmmm.... Biblical lasagna.

Sounds delicious actually. I'm just used to the more pedestrian Italian-American stuff. White sauce and prosciutto. Hmm.

Jaglavak · #13 27th October 2018, 04:24 PM

White sauce is wrong, mkay? Marinara sauce is the path of truthy enlightenment.

JimNightshade · #14 28th October 2018, 08:34 AM

Marinara sauce has no place in a lasagna. Much like canned tuna has no place on a steak.

You are a heathen, a pleb, and a disgrace to humanity.

You should be ashamed of yourself and subscribe to my newsletter should I ever get around to writing it.

For now commence atonement, and pray the great noodly one is in a good mood.

Sheesh.

Have a meat-ball - you want pickled herring with that?

Jaglavak · #15 28th October 2018, 09:26 AM

Hey, just because you're weird doesn't mean the rest of us have to suffer.

JimNightshade · #16 28th October 2018, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Jaglavak

Hey, just because you're weird doesn't mean the rest of us have to suffer.

Why not?

Jaglavak · #17 28th October 2018, 12:01 PM

Um, errr... Because I'm agile and you're stealthy.

C2H5OH · #18 28th October 2018, 12:26 PM

OK, bitches. I made that "Polish-Lasagna". Tasty shit.

My mother told Fr Smegelski about it. He thinks it's a good idea. He's half Irish. And half Polish.

I love trolling with food..

JimNightshade · #19 29th October 2018, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by C2H5OH

OK, bitches. I made that "Polish-Lasagna". Tasty shit.

My mother told Fr Smegelski about it. He thinks it's a good idea. He's half Irish. And half Polish.

I love trolling with food..

Yay! One of us! A true patafarian!

Why don't we have a pastafarian smily? This is an outrage!

Anacanapuna · #20 30th October 2018, 04:08 PM

MsPuna makes a rockin' lasagna. She makes her own pasta from a family recipe and her own marinara sauce from tomatoes we grow in our garden.

It does not suck to be me when my (half) Italian wife makes lasagna. Manga gusto!

JimNightshade · #21 1st November 2018, 11:13 AM

Marinara (English: "mariner's") sauce is a tomato sauce, usually made with tomatoes, garlic, herbs, and onions.[1][2] Its many variations can include the addition of capers, olives, spices, and a dash of wine.

This is not to be confused with spaghetti marinara, a popular dish in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa where a tomato-based sauce is mixed with fresh seafood.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinara_sauce

OK - this is the confusion and I apologize for being confused even though that is my default state.