verdict on last nights dinner . . .

it is going into rotation.  oh slurp!!!!

a couple of things to change.  15 minutes was not enough to make it nice and bubbly.  when i warm up the left overs tomorrow, i'm going to 25 or 30 minutes and the lasagna should have been cooked just a tad more.  maybe 15 minutes.  the only other problem?  i couldn't stop eating the eggplant before it made it into the dish.  oh, which reminds me. i breaded the eggplant first and 86ed the tomatoes.  lol.  whatever, it is most delicious:

namaste.

my jelly bean . . .

is a happy camper with new oil, new windshield wipers, some spilled oil off her engine and tires checked out.  with a mere 50k miles on her, paul says she is good for another 17 years.  best medicine ever!!!!!  oh, and if i ever want to sell her, he wants her.  sorry paul, no dice.  kidlet's car goes in next monday.

trying this new recipe tonight, from Proud Italian Cook:

Eggplant and Burrata Lasagna

 

Ingredients

• Ingredients are for two servings, feel free to double or triple.
• 3 balls of burrata
• 1 medium eggplant cut into circles, roasted or pan sauteed in olive oil until golden crisp
• 1 pint of colored cherry tomatoes, left whole, roasted in olive oil with fresh basil
• 1 quart of marinara sauce, preferably homemade, (you'll have leftover)
• 6 pasta sheets, three per serving, the kind you have to boil, cooked al'dente
• fresh basil for garnish

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Brush 2 individual gratin dishes with olive oil.
2. Spoon marinara on the bottom of each.
3. Place one sheet of lasagna down and spoon marinara on top then add three slices of cooked eggplant.
4. Gently tear into the burrata and place pieces on top of eggplant.
5. Scatter the roasted tomatoes on top with some shredded basil.
6. Then repeat two more times. pasta sheet, marinara, eggplant, burrata, tomatoes and basil.
7. Place gratin dishes on a rimmed baking sheet for easy in and out of oven.
8. Bake for about 15 minutes just until warmed and burrata has gently melted.
9. Let it rest a few minutes before serving when sauce has stopped bubbling.
10. Garnish with more shredded basil.

the cheese isn't available so i am back to plain old mozzarella,  slurp.  but the idea of lasagna noodles, eggplant, mozzarella and fresh basil is making me salivate.  gravy is thawing on the counter.   i need to make a fresh batch for another new recipe later this week.  oh, and goat cheese might be added on top . . .

if you have a sensitive stomach . . .

bypass this post.  please.  your significant other will thank you.

at a little after 4:00, kidlet decides she needs a nap before dinner.  not a problem.  i am on my laptop on one side of the bed and she decides to nestle on the other side.  we have a couple of fleece blankets we use if it is cool like today.

so there i am, on my laptop tapping away.  kidlet reaches for the smaller throw and snaps it in the air to unfold it to make her nest.  i'm sitting there stunned as i watch gobs of what looks like chocolate chip cookie dough fly across the rooms and land on the mirror over the low bureau.  if ever there was a time to say WTF, this would be it.

she starts rolling in laughter and squealing with delight while i am still trying to take it all in.  and then i realize the truth.

someone with four little legs and a tail had apparently vomited on the blanket which because airborne with the snap of kidlets hands:

 and there across the entirety of the room is cat vomit glued to the mirror, its frame and several of the photo frames.

little feline patties of vomit.  note the furry edges.

i'm sorry but this is one of life's little impossibilities come to fruition.

namaste.

it got chilly again . . .

more posies . . .

don't cha just love spring?!?!?!?  i thought it was gone but this morning it was 57• and the flowers are blooming all over the place.

 i want weather like this all year round!!!!  please mother nature. please!!!

my nose is still stuck in a book.  this time the memory keeper's daughter.  didn't like it even a little but i am, apparently, the only one.  and a couple more historical romances because it is, after all, spring.  and then on to another patterson . . . NYPD RED 3, 4 is on wait list.

doing a happy dance, just because i can!!!!!!

this is . . .

who i want to be when i grow up:

spring . . .

 namaste.