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midnightsjane) wrote2012-02-01 09:52 pm
midnightsjane) wrote2012-02-01 09:52 pm
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Belated Happy Birthday to Scrollgirl! I'm sorry I missed your day, Scroll..hope it was a great birthday!
I surprised myself tonight with my inspiration for dinner: I had hardly anything in the fridge, just a couple of sausages, some limp celery, and half an onion. There was a chunk of mozzarella cheese, and a container of parmesan cheese, some butter and milk. I had a box of those lasagna noodles you don't have to boil, and not much else. So in a lightbulb moment, I thought hmmm..whitesauce lasagna. Might be good, might be disaster. So I sauteed the chunks of sausage with onion, garlic and celery, made a bechamel sauce, mixed in a good amount of parmesan cheese, and layered sauce, noodles and sausage mix, with slices of mozzarella. Sprinkled the rest of the parmesan on top, and popped it all in the oven. After about 35 minutes it was hot and bubbly, and the parmesan had made a golden cheesy crust on top.
Well, hot damn, it was delicious! I felt like I'd just won Chopped. LOL.
Then I wanted something sweet. I had oatmeal, some baking chocolate squares, sugar..so I melted some butter, chopped up the chocolate and melted it in the butter, then mixed in half a cup of the oats. It was pretty thick and stiff, so I thought, how about orange and chocolate? Added some orange juice, tasted, hmm, a bit bitter. Had some icing sugar on hand, so mixed in enough to sweeten it, and then made little truffle sized balls, and rolled them in more icing sugar. Put them in the freezer for awhile, and then tasted..omg. SO GOOD!!
I surprised myself tonight with my inspiration for dinner: I had hardly anything in the fridge, just a couple of sausages, some limp celery, and half an onion. There was a chunk of mozzarella cheese, and a container of parmesan cheese, some butter and milk. I had a box of those lasagna noodles you don't have to boil, and not much else. So in a lightbulb moment, I thought hmmm..whitesauce lasagna. Might be good, might be disaster. So I sauteed the chunks of sausage with onion, garlic and celery, made a bechamel sauce, mixed in a good amount of parmesan cheese, and layered sauce, noodles and sausage mix, with slices of mozzarella. Sprinkled the rest of the parmesan on top, and popped it all in the oven. After about 35 minutes it was hot and bubbly, and the parmesan had made a golden cheesy crust on top.
Well, hot damn, it was delicious! I felt like I'd just won Chopped. LOL.
Then I wanted something sweet. I had oatmeal, some baking chocolate squares, sugar..so I melted some butter, chopped up the chocolate and melted it in the butter, then mixed in half a cup of the oats. It was pretty thick and stiff, so I thought, how about orange and chocolate? Added some orange juice, tasted, hmm, a bit bitter. Had some icing sugar on hand, so mixed in enough to sweeten it, and then made little truffle sized balls, and rolled them in more icing sugar. Put them in the freezer for awhile, and then tasted..omg. SO GOOD!!
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