Lasagna

[cjsmith]

Welcome to the latest installment of CJ Feels Stupid In The Kitchen!

This time it's lasagna, a dish even I cannot usually screw up. I decided to add Italian sausage, not in the sauce, but just adding it in between the sauce and the cheese. I made all the layers and remembered to leave a big bunch of mozzarella to put on top. I'm so smart.

When I grated that mozzarella, I took a good chip off the base of my thumb, a minor but painful goof I haven't made for years. Considering that I know better than to serve this to anybody but myself, I figured this attempt was just barely still a success. I spread out the cheese prettily.

Then I noticed the other two-thirds of the sausage, still waiting. Dangit. The only layer I remembered to put sausage on was the bottom one. So I dumped that large pile of crumbled sausage on above the cheese, pressing it down in the hopes the cheese would sort of bubble around it. Durrr. It's going to look like pizza.

But the whole thing is baking now, and mmm the smell. I adore Italian sausage.

I better get cracking if I want bread today. This will be the first time I ever try rye.

Comments

[ladyqkat.livejournal.com]

Some of my best dishes have been from oopses in the kitchen. So this is just one of your very special adjustment to a proven classic.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

*laughter* My oopses in the kitchen are usually worthy only of a quick burial!

The lasagna is out of the oven now, and it's DELICIOUS. I suppose I like sausage pizza, so that isn't a surprise. :-)

I think I will make sure that future versions do not contain any human bits, however. (There's a chunk missing. This dish definitely contains human. Not what I'd want to feed to anyone else.)

[ladyqkat.livejournal.com]

I treat it as sort of like swallowing a bug - extra protien, but not an ingredient you want in there for company.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Me too. :)