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This week's Cartoon Kitchen features Serious Eats' cartoonist in residence Larry Gonick's spin on spinach lasagna. —Ed Levine
Trivial Spinach Lasagna
Adapted from Larry Gonick's Cartoon Kitchen series.
Ingredients
A few cloves of garlic
Tomato sauce
Raw lasagna noodles
Ricotta cheese
Fresh spinach, washed and drained
Mozzarella cheese
Procedure
1. Chop a few cloves of garlic; sauté them a bit. Then, in a fairly deep pan, layer the following: a swirl of tomato sauce, a layer of uncooked lasagna noodles, more sauce, garlic, dollops of ricotta, a thick pile of spinach, garlic, noodles, sauce, ricotta.
2. Cover it all with slices of mozzarella. Add extra layers if you have room. Let this sit overnight in the fridge.
3. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350°F, cover pan with foil, and bake for 30 minutes. Uncover pan and bake 30 minutes more.
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3 Comments:
Why the overnight wait?
sarahinnewyork at 7:04PM on 03/02/08
Does "raw noodles" mean uncooked noodles?
booplusboo at 5:40AM on 03/03/08
Clearly he uses raw to mean uncooked (see the recipe itself where it says "layer of uncooked lasagna noodles - i assume they are meant to absorb liquid during the overnight wait). The idea of all that sitting overnight bugs me and i'd love to know the point.
The lack of amounts, how much this or that shows that he's way more relaxed a cook than i am but i can't use a recipe that simply says "tomato sauce" and "ricotta cheese". I also don't get "a thick pile of spinach". Spread out? trimmed? I mean how hard IS it to steam spinach if you want it whole leaf. Doesn't it slime out this way?
it's not like cooking noodles is that challenging. I've used the same spinach lasagna recipe for 30 years; you cook the noodles while you're prepping the other stuff and poof. No onion, no herbs. How can you make lasagna without basil, oregano, all those great things that make tomatos sing?)
Would you leave all this in your refrigerator overnight? Do you see it as a good idea? Anyone tried it ever? i'd love to know other reactions.
Fluffnik at 5:41PM on 03/03/08