Lasagna, that is.
I love to eat it but hate to make it.
At lunch today I suggested to Mr. Aitch that we either have spaghetti or baked ziti for dinner tonight. He said that he was hoping we could have lasagna.
Well, baked ziti and lasagna are basically the same thing but with a different shaped pasta so I had all the ingredients for either one.
And since I love Mr. Aitch, we had lasagna.
With Italian bread.
A simple salad.
And, of course, wine. =)
In the United States we just celebrated Thanksgiving. The traditional meal consists of turkey. The trimmings vary from home to home and region to region. Do you still have any leftover turkey?
Last year I posted a chicken corn chowder recipe that I threw together. The post was about substitutions in recipes.
Well, I substituted again using the same chicken corn chowder recipe.
I used some leftover Thanksgiving turkey instead of the chicken.
Delicious.
I love sweets. Chocolate in particular.
Two of my favorites are:
Hershey’s Nuggets Milk Chocolate with Almonds and Toffee and
5th Avenue candy bars
Too much chocolate and I am S.I.C.K. Big time. Occasionally I over indulge but for the most part I am careful with how much I eat at one time.
That doesn’t mean I can have some chocolate today and none tomorrow. I do not do moderation very well. When I buy chocolate, I ask Mr. Aitch to not to tell me that he’s opened the bag. I will not open a bag of candy but as long as I know there is unsecured chocolate around, I will nibble, nibble, nibble.
Because an open bag is an empty bag.
Or it will be empty very, very soon.
Mr. Aitch and I love freshly baked bread and rolls. In fact we’ve been known to have that and a bottle of wine for dinner! Unfortunately it’s just too darn hot in the summer to turn on the oven. We usually end up having store-bought “freshly” baked bread or rolls. Until now.
I cheated and used the frozen bread dough already shaped into rolls.
I sprayed the 8×8 aluminium pan with cooking spray. Then I placed nine rolls in the pan and sprayed a piece of plastic wrap with the cooking spray. This was placed over the rolls (spray side down) to keep them from sticking to the plastic while rising.
Once they were doubled (or tripled) in size, Mr. Aitch fired up the grill to 400 F. Our grill has three burners so he turned off the center burner (indirect heat) and we placed the uncovered pan of risen rolls right on the cooking grate.
Sorry for the overexposed photo but we were in a hurry! He closed the lid, set the timer and turned them half way through the baking time according to the directions on the package. He was able to maintain a fairly consistent temperature (350 F) adjusting the burners as needed.
18 minutes later we had freshly baked rolls. Perfect.
After we took them off the grill, I dumped them out of the pan, brushed the tops with a little bit of bacon grease then wrapped them in a cloth to keep warm while he grilled the rest of our dinner.
We’ve done this twice within a week and can’t wait to do this again.
Have you grilled anything unusual?
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