The corridor gathered this week to cook Lasagne, but without ingredients and a recipe. It went quite well, with love and good friends.
The lasagne dinner was the time when we had absolutely no previous experience about how to do it. Not even the Italian member of the group. Usually he is very sensitive to the proper ingredients. This time we had to trick him. Luckily he didn’t recognize the difference from the “real” lasagne!
I have to admit that we simply googled the recipe… it was this one. From now on, you don’t even need to read this article further…
Still here? Got scared of the recipe? Well, it’s more than 3 steps, it takes too long time to prepare. Or are you confused with the ingredients? This was exactly my big experience that night: if you don’t have something or don’t know how to do it, most probably you can just skip it or add/do something else instead. Maybe you’ll invent a new dish and become world-famous. But usually it will be just as fine as the original recipe.
The idea to make lasagne came when I found a pack of lasagne noodles in the upper cupboard (behind the bottles, yes). We had bought it last year but never had time to prepare it. Never too late!
One of our friends had a friend visiting from the other side of the globe. We did the shopping together. Two friends who haven’t seen each other for a year – lots to talk about! Plus me, who forgot the shopping list at home. Of course we forgot to buy some ingredients. We realized it only at home and we didn’t really want to go back. “It will be OK, let’s put this instead!”
Laziness makes you creative…
So we started to read the recipe. Step one: cook the minced meat with the spaghetti sauce . You just need a pan for that. Then it says “mix together the cottage cheese, the mozzarella cheese, eggs, grated Parmesan cheese, dried parsley, salt and ground black pepper”. Of these, we forgot the parsley and the eggs, but we realized only when it was already in the oven. The parsley was looking at me from the window-sill like “you left me out…” I promised to use it as soon as possible , and next day it ended up in a delicious Hungarian dish. Problem solved, broken parsley-hearts fixed.
So there is a meat sauce, a cheese mixture and the noodles. You have to layer it into a baking dish. When finishing, don’t spare the cheese – the more the better! Oven.
We ended up having seven people at the table that night. It was almost eight, but one was too tired. We kept her portion in case she changes her mind. We couldn’t resist much.
(knock)
– Yes?
– Are you sure you’re not hungry?
– Sure, thanks.
– What a pity…
(while our faces saying YESSS + Indian victory dance)
We finished the last portion in 3 seconds or so. So I guess at the end, this lasagne with the random ingredients wasn’t bad!
