It's really only Tuesday? Hm. Feels like it should be later in the week.
My homecoming queen worker seems competent. She was able to at least make copies with minimal instruction. She'll be here M, W, F which is a HUGE help to me.
Chris and I are making homemade french bread pizza tonight and watching election coverage. Polls numbers should start coming in when we get home at 7:00. We'll also be watching Stewart & Colbert. :-)
I'm leaving for another business trip tomorrow. I'm driving a little state Prius up into the UP of Michigan. I hope I don't hit a moose.
I'm still not done reading Ben's autobiography.
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i can't wait for all this election stuff to be over. Then we can get back to more serious business.
Although I must confess, I'll be watching some of the coverage tonight as well.
Hey, making copies is a big deal. Huge. My old boss's daughter came to work at the law firm, and I just about died the first time she handed me a set of copies she had made.
I am making lasagna. I am going to add spinach. This is proabably a dumb question, but I'm going to ask anyway. Should I sautee the spinach or will it cook enough layered in?
I am sure I will watch coverage, but I also have a TAR summary to write.
I hope you don't hit anything.
Can't get past page one?
I'm on part two of three in the book. The words and expressions are just so darn foreign to me. Kind of like if I told Ben "I'd hit that" or "That's how I roll." :-)
Good question on the spinach in lasagne. I've only ever pre-cooked it with the sauce (to disguise the presence of spinach to Chris) or added it already cooked to the cheese mixture. I suppose layering it in fresh would work.
It worked in my hobo pie, so I figured it would work here.
Can someone explain to me what the frig a hobo pie is? I don't know what goes into it, but the concept sounds yummy. Is it sort of like a sheppard's pie or a chicken pot pie, because both of those are yummy.
Boo - I'm voting that the spinach will cook enough in the lasagna but maybe a quick blanche and then an ice bath might make sense.
Or are you using baby spinach? Because then I would certainly vote that the spinach will cook within the lasagna.
Mmmmmmm, lasagna.
A hobo pie uses a pie iron:
http://www.cabelas.com/prod-1/0031806515113a.shtml
You put two slices of bread with your choice of filling (I like pizza and ham & cheese best, but you can do anything, including dessert), and grill it in the pie iron over a campfire. It's like a panini concept.
Just layer the spinach in! No cook-y, no fuss-y, no blanche-y. I usually add most of a large bag of fresh spinach leaves to my lasagna. They cook completely and taste terrific!
When you build the lasagna it may seem like the spinach adds too much height but as it cooks everything evens out.
Will you be up there for the weekend? If yes, pack snow boots.
I'm leaving the UP either Friday night or Saturday morning. :-( Ucky snow!
Where do you all add the spinach?
I never pre-cook my noodles, so I make one layer of spinach right on top of the bottom layer of noodles, and one somewhere else. I am not too consistent on the layering order.
So it's like a little bit of sauce, then a couple or three noodles, then a layer of raw spinach leaves, then ricotta cheese stuff if you do that, then cheese, then sauce, then 2 or 3 more noodles and finish everything up in layers that look good at the time, including one more layer of spinach leaves.
I am enormously fond of garlic so I always process a bunch of roasted garlic cloves into my ricotta cheese stuff. :)
Now I'm craving lasagna and all I have is pulled pork!
Mmmmmmmmmmm - pulled pork
Spinach is my favorite veggie. Or corn. Or Peas. Or brussles sprouts. Or lima beans. No, spinach is.
*sings* I'm Popeye, the sailor man.
I did:
Sauce
Noodles
RICOTTA
Spinach
Noodles
Sauce
Mozzarella
The spinach cooked perfectly. And I have enough left for the next two days.
Now you all have gone and made me hungry!
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