Lasagna

Garfield's favourite food. Guess who is the Garfield at home? :p

Western food are usually so much simpler to make versus Asian food. The prep time tends to be much shorter as there's less of slicing, chopping, cutting and blending. Here's my version of Garfield's Lasagna.

Ingredients:

• 100g - 150g ground meat
• 1 onion - chopped
• 2 cloves garlic - minced
• 2-3 tbsp dried basil (or you can use fresh ones)
• 2 tspn dried oregano
• 2 tbsp brown sugar
• 1 half tspn salt
• 4 fresh diced tomatoes
• 1 tin or 250g tomato puree
• 2 capsicum bulbs - chopped
• 2 tbsp paprika powder
• 10-12 dry lasagna noodles
• 2 eggs
• 1 pint ricotta cheese
• 1 half cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 2 tbsp parsely
• 1 tspn salt
• 500g shredded mozarella cheese
• Grated Parmesan cheese for toppings

Method:

1. Brown onion, garlic and minced meat in a skillet over medium heat with about 1 teaspoon of butter or oil and fry till the liquid from the meat is dry
2. Mix in basil, oregano, brown sugar, diced tomato and tomato puree
3. After about 3 minutes, add in capsicum and paprika powder. Mix thoroughly and simmer for another 20 mins, stirring occasionally.
4. Pre-heat oven to about 190 degrees Celsius
5. Bring a pot of water to a boil with a pinch of salt. Add lasagna noodles with a little bit of olive oil and cook for about 5-8 minutes or until Al Dante. Drain the noodles and set aside
6. In a separate bowl, mix in eggs, ricotta, half cup Parmesan cheese, parsley and 1 teaspoon of salt
7. In a baking dish, lay a few noodles to cover the bottom. Then layer it with the sauce per #3 and then per #6. Top with mozzarella and put more noodles on top. Repeat
8. Top with remaining sauce and sprinkle additional mozzarella and Parmesan cheese as desired
9. Bake in the pre-heated oven for about 30 minutes. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving

Bon Apetite!

Lasagna

Given Spud's new-found interest in adult food recently (and she does seem to be getting quite bored and apathetic with her roughly mushed up, tasteless baby food), we decided to start experimenting by giving our food to Spud for one of her meal-times.

She seems keen on sandwiches, noodles and basically whatever we eat, and when I made some lasagna over the weekend, I thought I'd let her try a 2" x 2" portion. Her reaction was a little lukewarm, but she did take at least 5 bites out of it.

Spud generally has more patience with new food and is usually quite game to just open her mouth willingly if she tastes something new. I guess we'll just have to see how it goes from here. I certainly do hope that she is a foodie like we are.

However,  if she starts to want something new at every meal-times, I swear it will only be a matter of days before I start banging my head on the wall in trying to figure out what to feed her just so that she eats!

I think we have enough headache as it as, as we too, have an issue of what to feed ourselves every single day with the following conversation happening every other day as we approach meal times:

Me: What do you feel like eating?

Silver Bullet: I don't know. What do you feel like eating?

Me: I don't know...what would you prefer? Asian or Western?

Silver Bullet: Hmmm..I don't know. what do you feel like cooking?

Me: Not sure. Anything in particular you want me to whip up?

Silver Bullet: Errr....what is simple to make?

Me: Bleahhh...you didn't answer my question. Order in?

Silver Bullet: You didn't either. Can order in I guess...

Me: OK. YOU pick! :)

Silver Bullet: But I pick yesterday...YOUR turn!

Me: Arggggggggggggggggggh! I don't make decisions outside the office. You pick the restaurant, I'll help you with the food.

Silver Bullet: OK. (5 minutes later...) what do you want?

Me: Arggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....

Silver Bullet: Hee....heh! Awwww...c'on. Help me out here

Me: *pout*pout*. Just pick one.

Silver Bullet: But....but...

Me: Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....

And it all comes back to square one, from the top!

So. We will eventually reach to a decision after about 20 minutes of having inane conversation such as the above, and no, I'm not kidding when I say that is usually how it goes literally every few days when we both just cannot figure out what to eat.

The story of our life. C'est la vie.