… Sweet Tomato & Asparagus Lasagenetti
Ok so its Oscars morning – by which I mean the morning afterwards.
The morning was spent sleeping and then going for coffee in Gloucester. My sister Selina works in Boots on a makeup counter in Gloucester. We visit her. As punishment for going to bed first last night. As punishment for not watching any of the films up for awards. And as punishment for winning the sweepstake, whist she is dealing with a real customer I rearrange her makeup counter. After this it’s time to visit the cathedral where parts of Harry Potter was filmed and where Edward II is buried. I visited him because I had just read a book set vaguely around him. If you don’t know him he is the effeminate son of the ruthless king in the film Braveheart which rumour has it he was killed by having a hot poker shoved up his …. A rumour that is almost certainly not true. Needless to say when I visited him he was unable to confirm whether this romour was actually untrue. After a quick visit to the site of the death, by burning, of several protestant martyrs it’s time to go back and cook this one.
Before I started this one I had to trim the fat of my lamb chops. The recipe calls for eight lamb chops with the fat trimmed off them. When you buy lamb by the half (as in half a whole lamb) you can’t be that picky.
The cooking process for this was really quite easy. The only fiddly bit was the pasta. When you buy fresh lasagna sheets they come individually separated by sheets of paper. It is infuriatingly fiddly to separate these.
If I’m honest I was a little disappointed by this one. I must confess here that while I love lamb and its one of my favorite meats (I didn’t think you can beat a slow cooked shoulder of lamb) I don’t really like chops. I don’t enjoy cooking them and I can’t really be bothered to eat them. That notwithstanding the lamb was really very nice. It was very nice lamb. But the way it is cooked is very nice too. I was disappointed with the pasta. It was fine. It was nice. But it was far from my favourite.
By the way this is another meal with asparagus. I don’t think I have ever eaten so much asparagus in my life. This isn’t a compliant I really like asparagus.
Who with: Dan, Gordy, Debbie, Gav
How long: Fourteen minutes and forty nine seconds
