Dinnerfest V: Lasagne Laboratory

ADDENDA:
Long day capped the final night of Dinnerfest 2008. Couldn't fall asleep last night till 3, woke up naturally at 7. Had a good interview uptown, then picked up stuff at Wholefoods. Ate, chilled, and before I knew it it was 2pm. Cooked straight till 8pm, finding making such a large quantity of fresh pasta in such a multi-layered dish. A few peeps cancelled at the last minute, but Karen & her Chandler came which made everything all right, if only a lot more stuff for the freezer than I expected.

It's now 10:15 and I'm completely burnt. Hopefully desert won't keep me up tonight...

BREAKFAST: 8am, organic cornflakes with good milk, .75 bowls, hunger 3/5

LUNCH: 1:30pm, pork medalions, brocoli, rice pilaf, brownie and almond icecream, 2.5 bowls, hunger 4/5
Pork was still moist and tasty after a night in the fridge...

PM SNACK: 4pm, 1 piece of whole wheat shortbread cookie, hunger 4/5
Just baked it, had to try it. Gooooood.

DINNER: 8pm, arancini with baby spinach salad dressed with oo&v and roasted cashews, meat & dairy lasagne from scratch (including the pasta), almond icecream with shortbread, 1 glass wine, seltzer, 2.5 bowls, hunger 4/5
The arancini this time were so much better, I breaded them with panko that just made the rice balls SCREAM, and I deep fried them longer for a thicker jacket o' crust, an excellent compliment to the salad. The lasagne was technically extremely difficult to get together, between all the differnet parts (a ricotta & spinach layer, a mozz-duo layer, a ragu layer(which was made last week), freshly made tomato sauce on the bottom and top, and all those sheets of fresh pasta that almost didn't come off because doubling the recipe doesn't quite work right, he he.

I think Rufus is tired of me cooking so much food every night, he had a bite of shortbread then curled up on my head for the night....