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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Not Your Mother's Lasagna - 6/15/2011 - Nick from DC
Use only Barilla no-boil thin pasta, not American style
thick ribbed version
Bolognese sauce...
2 c coarsely
chopped smoked ham
2 c coarsely dice onion
1/2 c grated carrot
1 c
coarsely chopped celery
4 tbs butter
4 tbs olive oil
1 pound ground
beef (not too lean)
1 pound ground pork
1 c dry white wine
4 c beef
stock (boxed will do fine)
4 tbs tomato paste
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1
tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1 c parmigiano reggiano, grated (do not
substitute)
Mix ham, onions, carrot, and
celery. You have the option of chopping more fine, which I like, verses having
the veggies coarse.
Cook the veggies in the
butter until browned. Move to a large sauce pan.
Brown the beef and pork in
the olive oil, then pour in the wine, and allow it to evaporate, and turn into
sauce pan with the veggies.
Add the beef stock and tomato
paste, salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and bring to boil. Cook simmer, partially
covered for 45 minutes. Stir occasionally. Don't let it try out too much.
Correct seasoning.
Make a besciamella sauce (white sauce)...
1 c
heavy cream
2 c whole milk
3 tbs butter
3 tbs flour
1/4 tsp
nutmeg
1 tsp salt
Make a roux with the butter and flour over medium
heat. Cook for 2 minutes.
Remove the pan from the stove, and add milk and
cream...Whisk FAST until no lumps form. Cook and stir constantly over medium
heat until the besciamella thickens. Then reduce the heat, and cook for 3 or 4
minutes...taste to make sure there is no flourly taste...whisk in nutmeg and
salt.
Form the lasagna...
Butter a standard baking
dish.
Spread a layer of the
Bolognese in the dish.
Spread 1 cup of the
besciamella.
Put 1/3 of the lasagna on the
besciamella, overlapping some.
Repeat two more times, ending
with besciamella.
Sprinkle the parmigiano.
Bake 30 minutes @ 350 and let set 15 minutes - Serve
with a salad.
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Pecan Chex - 6/8/2011 - Nancy from PA
PRALINE CHEX MIX
1/3 cup Southern Praline Liquid “stuff”
6 cups chex cereal (what you like)
2 cups Pecan halves
½ cup brown sugar
½ stick of butter
½ teaspoon baking soda
Put Chex cereal and pecans in large bowl.
Melt butter in sauce pan then add brown sugar and liquid praline and boil 2 minutes.
Remove from heat, add baking soda, pour over chex cereal and pecans, mix well.
Put on large cookie sheet with high sides (for stirring ) and bake at 250 degrees for 20 minutes at a time, (stirring each 20 minutes) for 1 hour.
Pour onto another cookie sheet to cool (it tends to stick to the heated pan). Clean first pan immediately.
Southern Praline Liquid "stuff" available at:
Savannah Cinnamon and Cookie Company
2604 Gregory Street
Savannah, Georgia 31404