Lasagna Update, and Stuff
May. 5th, 2009 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drpaisleyThe lasagna went over well, both Dragonet and Rohanna raved. The latter had more for lunch and dinner today. I was reasonably happy with it. Inasmuch at Ro is not a fan of red sauces in general, I decided to try using a recipe i found in the current issue of Cooks Illustrated whilst performing my nightly ablutions (yes, our bathroom reading is cookbooks and cooking magazines). It used crushed tomatoes (though I subbed diced tomatoes, because I couldn't remember when we were at the store), rather than tomato sauce as a base, with onions and garlic* sauteed in butter with the usual herbs and spices.
Overall, it was good, but I think the sausage was a bit bland (I had intended to get a half-pound of hot Italian sausage, but Cosentino's only had largeish packages of Scimeca's hot, and i didn't need that much), and I should have added more seasoning to the mix. Next time I'll drop a tablespoon of Italian seasoning in the ricotta/mozzarella/egg mixture, and maybe a small can of tomato sauce in with the crushed tomatoes. The ladies liked it, so good, but I'm my own worst critic in this, like so many areas.
At work, I spent most of the day dealing with all the work that didn't get done on Monday, which seems to be a continuing theme of the new system. Of course, I'm supposed to get everything caught up on Friday when we're short a worker, but that doesn't seem to apply when I'm gone. The most amusing part came when a box of material we sent out Friday came back from a client in Topeka. it's a bunch of stuff for the 100th anniversary of St. Francis hospital in Topeka. Apparently a number of the pieces were supposed to be C.O.B.'d** but no one mentioned it to moi. And then there was the problem that several of the pieces, which were 2.5 to 3 feet tall, and mounted on a 1/8" plastic board, weren't standing up straight enough for the client. Well, duh! The material in question is no more capable of holding itself up straight than your average freshman at their first kegger. After a couple of experiments, I figured out a way to attach strips of gator board to the back of the signs that seem to be enough to provide a Cialis-like boost to the signs (individual bathtubs not included, and what the fuck is up with that imagery anyway? But I digress; I have always had digrestive problems). We sent one sample back, if the client likes it, I'll fix the rest of them tomorrow.
Oh yeah, and fuck Clapton. Greinke is God! Six starts, six wins, two shutouts, 45 innings, two earned runs. Leads the majors in wins, strikouts and ERA. Now, if we could just dump Sir Sidney and bring up Hochever, the Royals would have the best starting staff in the majors.
**Cut Out Background. Like removing the sky above a rooftop, or a building behind a person, so it/they stand out from the rest of the graphic.
UPDATE!: Oops, I forgot the first footnote, which should have read something like: "*The recipe called for two cloves of garlic, which is not even remotely enough to be worth considering. I used six or seven medium to large cloves, which is the low end of enough. Have I mentioned that my cookbook, when I publish one, will be called "Garlic Is Assumed"?
Overall, it was good, but I think the sausage was a bit bland (I had intended to get a half-pound of hot Italian sausage, but Cosentino's only had largeish packages of Scimeca's hot, and i didn't need that much), and I should have added more seasoning to the mix. Next time I'll drop a tablespoon of Italian seasoning in the ricotta/mozzarella/egg mixture, and maybe a small can of tomato sauce in with the crushed tomatoes. The ladies liked it, so good, but I'm my own worst critic in this, like so many areas.
At work, I spent most of the day dealing with all the work that didn't get done on Monday, which seems to be a continuing theme of the new system. Of course, I'm supposed to get everything caught up on Friday when we're short a worker, but that doesn't seem to apply when I'm gone. The most amusing part came when a box of material we sent out Friday came back from a client in Topeka. it's a bunch of stuff for the 100th anniversary of St. Francis hospital in Topeka. Apparently a number of the pieces were supposed to be C.O.B.'d** but no one mentioned it to moi. And then there was the problem that several of the pieces, which were 2.5 to 3 feet tall, and mounted on a 1/8" plastic board, weren't standing up straight enough for the client. Well, duh! The material in question is no more capable of holding itself up straight than your average freshman at their first kegger. After a couple of experiments, I figured out a way to attach strips of gator board to the back of the signs that seem to be enough to provide a Cialis-like boost to the signs (individual bathtubs not included, and what the fuck is up with that imagery anyway? But I digress; I have always had digrestive problems). We sent one sample back, if the client likes it, I'll fix the rest of them tomorrow.
Oh yeah, and fuck Clapton. Greinke is God! Six starts, six wins, two shutouts, 45 innings, two earned runs. Leads the majors in wins, strikouts and ERA. Now, if we could just dump Sir Sidney and bring up Hochever, the Royals would have the best starting staff in the majors.
**Cut Out Background. Like removing the sky above a rooftop, or a building behind a person, so it/they stand out from the rest of the graphic.
UPDATE!: Oops, I forgot the first footnote, which should have read something like: "*The recipe called for two cloves of garlic, which is not even remotely enough to be worth considering. I used six or seven medium to large cloves, which is the low end of enough. Have I mentioned that my cookbook, when I publish one, will be called "Garlic Is Assumed"?
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Date: 2009-05-06 04:32 am (UTC)It's wafer thin!
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Date: 2009-05-06 06:06 pm (UTC)YES, YES, YES. A man after my own heart and breath!
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