How to Make and Enjoy Spasagne!!
Come home from classes on a Friday afternoon, hungry out of your mind.
FORAGING!
Search through your cupboards which are long overdue for restocking and find:
1 Box 'O (16 oz) Barilla Lasagne (boiling time 8-9 minutes)
1 can (14.5 oz) Dei Fratelli chopped Italian Tomatoes, Herbs & Olive Oil
1 can (12 oz) Hunt's (Tomatoes) Paste
Crushed Rosemary
Basil Leaves
Parsley Flakes
Black Pepper
Sugar (fine granulated or brown-probably not raw)
Stand for a minute and begin to crave meat. Remember that you have 1/3 lb. ground beef left over and frozen. Rifle through freezer to gather:
1/2 - 1/3 lb. lean ground beef.
Wish you had grated cheese. Shrug your shoulders and continue.
PREPARATION!
Take meat in plastic bag and thaw in a bowl with hot water. Set aside, replacing bowl water with fresh hot water as needed.
Prepare side dish if needed. Vegetables would have been nice. No vegetables to be found.
Find two sauce pans and one frying pan.
Break Lasagne strips into irregular bite-sizes, or into preferred size. One half - one quarter size is recommended. Cutting strips after cooking is also a possibility.
Fill one sauce pan with about one quart water, and bring to a boil. When boiling, add Lasagne. Let sit at low boil, stirring occasionally.
While cooking Lasagne, look for oil. Find that the only cooking oil available is safflower oil. Use anyway. Pour a proportionate amount of oil into frying pan to match with meat. Cook thawed meat while breaking apart (this is going in the sauce, make sure it's fully cooked and edible).
Once meat is cooked (brown and slightly crispy), add meat to second sauce pan containing chopped tomatoes/herbs/oil and tomato paste. Add seasonings: Approx. 1/2 tsp. each; parsley flakes, basil leaves, crushed rosemary. And 1/4 tsp. each; black pepper and sugar. Simmer and stir.
Strain Lasagne once done.
ENJOY!
Spread a small amount of sauce on plate, lay one layer of Lasagne on top, layer on more sauce and Lasagne as desired. Once again wish for cheese and a side dish. Open a bottle of wine, pop in the first dvd of your recently purchased 4 dvd set of 20 different western movies ("Mean Guns"), watch, eat, drink and enjoy. Shove nosy cat away as many times as needed, until you give up and let him sleep in your lap.
P.S. I know Lasagne is spelled Lasagna, but it's with an e on the box, so I kept it. Looks better in Italian anyway.
FORAGING!
Search through your cupboards which are long overdue for restocking and find:
1 Box 'O (16 oz) Barilla Lasagne (boiling time 8-9 minutes)
1 can (14.5 oz) Dei Fratelli chopped Italian Tomatoes, Herbs & Olive Oil
1 can (12 oz) Hunt's (Tomatoes) Paste
Crushed Rosemary
Basil Leaves
Parsley Flakes
Black Pepper
Sugar (fine granulated or brown-probably not raw)
Stand for a minute and begin to crave meat. Remember that you have 1/3 lb. ground beef left over and frozen. Rifle through freezer to gather:
1/2 - 1/3 lb. lean ground beef.
Wish you had grated cheese. Shrug your shoulders and continue.
PREPARATION!
Take meat in plastic bag and thaw in a bowl with hot water. Set aside, replacing bowl water with fresh hot water as needed.
Prepare side dish if needed. Vegetables would have been nice. No vegetables to be found.
Find two sauce pans and one frying pan.
Break Lasagne strips into irregular bite-sizes, or into preferred size. One half - one quarter size is recommended. Cutting strips after cooking is also a possibility.
Fill one sauce pan with about one quart water, and bring to a boil. When boiling, add Lasagne. Let sit at low boil, stirring occasionally.
While cooking Lasagne, look for oil. Find that the only cooking oil available is safflower oil. Use anyway. Pour a proportionate amount of oil into frying pan to match with meat. Cook thawed meat while breaking apart (this is going in the sauce, make sure it's fully cooked and edible).
Once meat is cooked (brown and slightly crispy), add meat to second sauce pan containing chopped tomatoes/herbs/oil and tomato paste. Add seasonings: Approx. 1/2 tsp. each; parsley flakes, basil leaves, crushed rosemary. And 1/4 tsp. each; black pepper and sugar. Simmer and stir.
Strain Lasagne once done.
ENJOY!
Spread a small amount of sauce on plate, lay one layer of Lasagne on top, layer on more sauce and Lasagne as desired. Once again wish for cheese and a side dish. Open a bottle of wine, pop in the first dvd of your recently purchased 4 dvd set of 20 different western movies ("Mean Guns"), watch, eat, drink and enjoy. Shove nosy cat away as many times as needed, until you give up and let him sleep in your lap.
P.S. I know Lasagne is spelled Lasagna, but it's with an e on the box, so I kept it. Looks better in Italian anyway.