12.04.09

The best intentions … and lasagne

Posted in Random ramblings, Yummy! at 7:56 pm by qt

Just a couple of months later my plans on catching up with blogging turned out to be somewhat ambitious and didn’t yield a lot of results. So what am I doing now actually writing a post? The answer is I was asked to (who would have thought it was that easy). ;-)

To be fair it was a rather reserved case of sounding out whether I was still posting recipes, which in connection with the lasagne we were eating at the time for me translated to “Can I have the recipe please?”

Without further ado I proudly present: spinach lasagne (vegetarian)

  • Thaw a bag of chopped spinach and add salt, two crushed cloves of garlic and a finely chopped shallot.
  • For the cheesy sauce cut a piece of mature Stilton into smaller pieces and put them into a blender. Fill up to max. capacity (mine can do 1 1/8 pt.) with half single cream and half (dry) white wine. Let the blender whip this to a creamy sauce and then stir in a bit more white wine.
  • Butter an ovenproof dish and put in a generous layer of the sauce, cover with lasagne sheets followed by a layer of spinach and another layer of lasagne sheets. Repeat until the last spinach is used and drizzle leftovers from the sauce over the spinach. Top with grated mature cheddar and bake at 200°C for about 25 – 30 minutes.
  • Serve with salad, dough balls or baguette and wine (white or red work equally well).

07.04.07

Can Maasdamer be replaced by Cheddar?

Posted in Random ramblings, Yummy! at 3:34 pm by qt

With good friday coming up and my husband requesting a fish dish the all important question of whether Maasdamer can be replaced by Cheddar was thrust upon me.

After some contemplation of the matter and based on my experiences with different kinds of Cheddar I decided to determine the answer by rigorous testing. Read the rest of this entry »

12.03.07

My first leg of lamb

Posted in Random ramblings, Yummy! at 5:14 pm by qt

Considering that I really like lamb, and cooking for that matter, it’s really surprising that I never made a leg of lamb myself. Then again we only had to visit my sister in law and request one and her husband Harry would prepare a feast – and wouldn’t even let me help. Except maybe tasting the wine ;-)

While having one of those strange discussions on IRC that start with something random (like bones of sheep in Kullervo) and then go off on a tangent we talked about lamb and how to prepare it. There was a clear consent that lamb and garlic are a dreamteam, but I actually found my claim that rosemary had to be included disputed! I was quite unwilling to believe that, but confronted with a beautifully simple and mouthwatering recipe I was starting to wonder … Read the rest of this entry »