Friday, March 27, 2009

Lasagne of Emilia-Romagna -- Daring Bakers


Time for the Daring Bakers Challenge! This month we tackled home made lasagna, with spinach pasta, yum! I have to tell you that spinach fettuccine with alfredo is one of my favorite meals ever, so I was really excited to try a lasagna with spinach noodles. This lasagna is less cheesy than the usual American lasagna I'm used to, with lots of mozzarella and ricotta, but it is still delicious. The main components are the fresh spinach pasta, a bechamel sauce with a touch of nutmeg (yum!), and a red sauce (vegetarian), layer after layer of delicious pure pasta goodness melded together with the yummy sauces, what's not to love? I'm sorry to say I did not get very many photos, or photos that I really love, but I did manage to snap a few...the first photo of this post is after the left-over lasagna had been in the refrigerator over night and rewarmed.


here is the dough while resting (it is bright green because I used the flash, but it really did look like that in person compared to the pale green non-flash pasta photos)

Here was my pasta station, roll, roll, roll! I do own the lello pastamaster 3000 and love to make as much of my own pasta for every day use as possible, but of course some days I still use boxed pasta. Anyway, even though I have the lello lasagna extruder disc I decided to get out the old hand crank model for this challenge :)

Here is my biggest complaint of the day -- and it has nothing to do with the recipe -- the above photo shows the pasta sheet going through my "curly lasagna attachment." This was my first time using that attachment, I bought it a couple of months ago to add to my hand crank attachment set, partly because it was on sale, and partly because we really love the curly ruffled edges of boxed lasagna and I was looking forward to creating that at home. It didn't turn out anything more that a pasta sheet barely cut with a little wavy design! How disappointing! I could get better wavy cuts with my pastry cutting wheels! Oh-well!


starting to layer the lasagna

And lastly a couple of finished lasagna shots, above is a huge bubble up of pasta that I thought was pretty fun, did anyone else have this? I love the 'bubble' pieces of pizza for some reason and just had to take a picture of my 'lasagna bubble.' Thank you for visiting my Daring Bakers post for March -- The March 2009 challenge is hosted by Mary of Beans and Caviar, Melinda of Melbourne Larder and Enza of Io Da Grande. They have chosen Lasagne of Emilia-Romagna from The Splendid Table by Lynne Rossetto Kasper as the challenge.

14 comments:

Cate said...

Such an unusual take on lasagna, it looks delicious. I'm with you - love the bubbles!

NKP said...

So sorry your cutter misbehaved.
Lasagne looks wonderful! I found the the slices photographed better the next day too - when they weren't sliding all over the place.
And the bubbles - yum!!

Lisa said...

Hi lasagne, nice to visit you..now would you mind if I bit into you - like hard?!?

Wow, your lasagne came out gorgeous, and your pasta is a beautiful shade of green. Very well done!!!

Anonymous said...

Your lasagne looks wonderful. YUM!

JMom said...

It looks like you got a lot more pasta out of your dough than I did. Great job!
JMom ~ Cooked from the Heart

Flourchild said...

Cool looking green lasagna!
Do you want to join a new group with me? Go to my blog and look at the picture Sweet Melissa and lick on the link under it..it's brand new and look's super fun! I wasn't sure if I would join cus of TWD, but I figured if it means more fun baking, Im in!

Megan said...

Dang that cutter! I hate it when they don't behave. And I saw the same attachment at Sur La Table today. Glad I didn't buy it.

Wonderful looking lasagna - and I love alfredo sauce too - although I can feel my arteries hardening as I eat it.

Unknown said...

All those layers...great job! You're right, bubbles are awesome.

rosasdolcevita said...

Hi Andrea, great job on the lasagna! I haven't tried making the green noodles yet but it's on my to-do list.

It's too bad about the attachment ... any way you can return or exchange it if you still have the receipt? Worth a try....

Dewi said...

Your lasagna look so perfectly layers Andrea. Wow, you work hard here, I am sure it was worth it.
Cheers,
elra

ice tea: sugar high said...

wow.. that is seriously enormous bubble.. Your pasta looked amazing and very enticing

Jenny said...

I love the bubble. It gives lasagna the homemade touch.

superman said...

Your lasagna looks great! I really love the bubbles!

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mj said...

Wow! Your lasagne looks cool!



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