People, I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw what the March challenge for the Daring Bakers. Lasagna. I KNOW! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? How much fun is that???? An absolutely brilliant choice.
The March 2009 challenge is hosted by Mary of Beans and Caviar, Melinda of Melbourne Larder and Enza of Io Da Grande. They have chosen Lasagne of Emilia-Romagna from The Splendid Table by Lynne Rossetto Kasper as the challenge.
There are 3 parts to the dish - homemade spinach pasta, bechemel sauce, and ragu. Our hosts were kind enough to allow for variations, but I thought the dish sounded so perfect as written, my changes were minimal.
When I was in my early 20's living alone in my teeny Calgary apartment I used to make pasta from scratch on a regular basis. I had forgotten how simple and fun pasta from scratch is. This was my first time making spinach pasta, but it won't be my last. Look at that color!
This was a simple lasagna, and different than any I've made or eaten before. Minimal sauce and cheese. No veggies. No cottage cheese. Just delicious noodles, heavenly bechemel sauce, and decadent ragu with a sprinkle of parmesan. Speaking of heavenly bechemel, this was the easiest part of the recipe.
The meat ragu recipe as provided called for 5 meats. 5! I cut it down to 3 - sausage, proscuitto, and beef we ground at home. There is minimal tomato, which is something new to me, and it also contained milk, another new meat sauce ingredient (to me). The sauce took eleventy billion hours. Ok, 3 or so.
To put it together, we briefly cooked the noodles, then layered them with the 2 sauces and a little cheese. We got 6 layers. Then bake. And fall in loooooove.
Oh my. There are no words to describle how fabulous this lasagna is. Seriously. The end.
A huuuuuuge thank you to Mary, Melinda and Enza for being Daring with their choice of recipe this month. It is so exciting to see a challenge like this for the group, and I hope we'll see more like it!
Please check out the recipe at one our of hosts blogs.
The March 2009 challenge is hosted by Mary of Beans and Caviar, Melinda of Melbourne Larder and Enza of Io Da Grande. They have chosen Lasagne of Emilia-Romagna from The Splendid Table by Lynne Rossetto Kasper as the challenge.
There are 3 parts to the dish - homemade spinach pasta, bechemel sauce, and ragu. Our hosts were kind enough to allow for variations, but I thought the dish sounded so perfect as written, my changes were minimal.
When I was in my early 20's living alone in my teeny Calgary apartment I used to make pasta from scratch on a regular basis. I had forgotten how simple and fun pasta from scratch is. This was my first time making spinach pasta, but it won't be my last. Look at that color!
This was a simple lasagna, and different than any I've made or eaten before. Minimal sauce and cheese. No veggies. No cottage cheese. Just delicious noodles, heavenly bechemel sauce, and decadent ragu with a sprinkle of parmesan. Speaking of heavenly bechemel, this was the easiest part of the recipe.
The meat ragu recipe as provided called for 5 meats. 5! I cut it down to 3 - sausage, proscuitto, and beef we ground at home. There is minimal tomato, which is something new to me, and it also contained milk, another new meat sauce ingredient (to me). The sauce took eleventy billion hours. Ok, 3 or so.
To put it together, we briefly cooked the noodles, then layered them with the 2 sauces and a little cheese. We got 6 layers. Then bake. And fall in loooooove.
Oh my. There are no words to describle how fabulous this lasagna is. Seriously. The end.
A huuuuuuge thank you to Mary, Melinda and Enza for being Daring with their choice of recipe this month. It is so exciting to see a challenge like this for the group, and I hope we'll see more like it!
Please check out the recipe at one our of hosts blogs.
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