Monday, February 15, 2010
Veggie Lasagna
Coming from a half italian family, I love pasta. I haven't gotten the chance to learn how to make any homemade macaroni from my grandmother yet, but I still like to mingle around with boxed macaroni and different concoctions to make. For Valentine's Day I planned an evening with some girlfriends and decided to cook some dinner. This is the perfect opportunity to cook something different and maybe more unique cause we have each other to help out. I asked if we could do a lasagna and between all of us we had pretty much all the ingredients we needed. This was my first time making lasagna and I was very excited. My grandmother makes a plane cheese lasagna which is amazing. I am a meat eater but for some reason do not prefer to eat meat in my lasagna so we chose to try a veggie lasagna with roasted veggies. Normally you would select a pan, 9x9 or 9x13, and then boil the amount of noodles needed. We however, had no boil noodles so we just selected a pan and moved on to the next step. We chose our veggies, cut them up, salted, peppered and oiled them and broiled them. In the mean time we combined a large tub of ricotta cheese, 1lb mozzarella cheese, and 2 eggs until smooth. Once the veggies were done we just had to assemble: noodles, sauce, veggies, cheese. End with noodles and sauce on top. For the sauce we just used a can of garlic and basil. We then baked it at 350 for about 40 min. Served with a caesar salad, garlic bread, and wine and it was a great dinner!
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