Eggplant Lasagna
2 medium globe eggplants, cut 1/4 inch thick lengthwise and baked at 400 for 10 min on first side, then flip and cook another 5 minutes
2 pounds (or more) roasted tomato sauce (roast tomatoes cut side down on 250 for 2 hours. Peel skin off. Saute 1/2 small onion diced, 1 clove garlic chopped. Add tomatoes and saute about 5-10 min. season with salt and pepper.
3 medium zucchini, large dice and sauteed about 5 minutes. 2 large or 2 small onions sliced and sauteed separately about 15 minutes. 2 cloves minced garlic added at end. Combine zucchini with onion & garlic mixture and saute everything together to combine. Season with salt and pepper. Separately mix 1 cup ricotta with 1/2 cup milk (rough estimates) to make a lighly whipped ricotta mixture. Mix zucchini & onion mixture with ricotta mixture.
Roasted pepper (about 2), pesto, lasagna sheets, additional pasta sheets.
Layer tomato sauce, pasta sheets, zucchini ricotta mixture, pesto, eggplant & red pepper, pasta sauce. Maybe add another pasta layer somewhere.
Ricky goes asparagus hunting
When we ask most people in Italy what they think of the government here, they just shake their head and say it’s a mess. Now the government is trying to reorganize after its latest collapse.
A sign for focaccia in Genovese dialect. Loosely translated it means “Holy crap, what focaccia!”
P2P = Peer to Peer = online file sharing. Don’t count on this being reversed anytime soon w/the way politics work here.
a donkey trying to eat my finger…nom..nom..nom.
Speaking of panettone, it’s a $848 million industry. If you buy a panettone cake outside of Italy, beware it may not be the “official” version of the cake.
Two popular parts of Christmas in Italy are Panettone, a kind of fruit cake, and the Precipe, the Nativity Scene. One bakery combined the two in a Nativity Scene made out of Panettone.
According to the New York Times, lots of Europeans are coming to the US this holiday season to take advantage of the strong Euro. We’ve had at least two English students who are doing just that…
What’s the most annoying Rachael Ray catchphrase? - Slashfood - This has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with Italy but is really funny. 2 minutes and 46 seconds of Rachael Ray saying “mmmmmmm”; I had to stop it at 1:44.. good luck!
