Some of you might remember me cooking for my MIL at my mountain cabin:
http://eat.at/swap/forum/index.php?action=display&forumid=1&msgid=206860 (see link)
This weekend we're up here again - this time without guestes BUT in need for dinner. I am not a fan of hot dogs and we don't have a BBQ up here yet, so I need to cook dinner on the stove inside, but since we have to carry all the water inside (we do have electricity tho), I'm not up to cooking something that will produce a lot of dirty dishes.
I have made heat-up-stew without much success, and we have had soups, but we are mostly up here on weekends and I really wanted to try to make something that DH likes, as in loves. Since it's a weekend and all.
DH loves lasagna. As in LOVES lasagna!
But making the bechamel at the cabin was just out of the question (too much hassle) and making the lasagna in advance and driving it up here on a partial bumpy road, not to mention in a fully packed car, wouldn't work either.
After thinking long and hard, I came up with the idea to make the bechamel sauce and the meat sauce at home and put the sauces in separate glass jars and bring them up to the cabin and mix the lasagna here.
I brought one jar (1 litre = 4 cups) of bechamel sauce, two jars of meat and tomato sauce, one pyrex form, lasagna plates and mozarella cheese up to the cabin. I made the layers in the pyrex form and cooked the lasagna in the oven and according to DH, it's perfect!
I just rinsed out the glass jars and I will do the dishes later but seriously, this was a perfect way to make lasagna at the cabin. It's a little like bringing ready made sauces, except it's all home made. DH is happy because he got his favorite dish, I'm happy because I don't have a lot of extra dishes to do and the dogs are happy because they are getting to eat the leftovers.smileys/smile.gif
http://eat.at/swap/forum/index.php?action=display&forumid=1&msgid=206860
http://eat.at/swap/forum/index.php?action=display&forumid=1&msgid=206860 (see link)
This weekend we're up here again - this time without guestes BUT in need for dinner. I am not a fan of hot dogs and we don't have a BBQ up here yet, so I need to cook dinner on the stove inside, but since we have to carry all the water inside (we do have electricity tho), I'm not up to cooking something that will produce a lot of dirty dishes.
I have made heat-up-stew without much success, and we have had soups, but we are mostly up here on weekends and I really wanted to try to make something that DH likes, as in loves. Since it's a weekend and all.
DH loves lasagna. As in LOVES lasagna!
But making the bechamel at the cabin was just out of the question (too much hassle) and making the lasagna in advance and driving it up here on a partial bumpy road, not to mention in a fully packed car, wouldn't work either.
After thinking long and hard, I came up with the idea to make the bechamel sauce and the meat sauce at home and put the sauces in separate glass jars and bring them up to the cabin and mix the lasagna here.
I brought one jar (1 litre = 4 cups) of bechamel sauce, two jars of meat and tomato sauce, one pyrex form, lasagna plates and mozarella cheese up to the cabin. I made the layers in the pyrex form and cooked the lasagna in the oven and according to DH, it's perfect!
I just rinsed out the glass jars and I will do the dishes later but seriously, this was a perfect way to make lasagna at the cabin. It's a little like bringing ready made sauces, except it's all home made. DH is happy because he got his favorite dish, I'm happy because I don't have a lot of extra dishes to do and the dogs are happy because they are getting to eat the leftovers.smileys/smile.gif
http://eat.at/swap/forum/index.php?action=display&forumid=1&msgid=206860