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Skriven 2013-05-30 15:45:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: tea/pie
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 05-29-13  20:51 <=-

 RH>> My MIL's lasagne recipe doesn't call for meat, just a cheese filling.
 NB>> Yes, so Steve told me...  I hadn't heard of that before...

 RH> The one Italian restaurant my folks took us to a few times made it
 RH> that way also. That's how, even before I met Steve, that my mom's
 RH> lasagne was so bad; I just didn't know how to make a good one tho.

About the only "Italian" food I had growing up was spaghetti.

 RH> Thanks to my MIL, I got the recipe and guidance on how to build a
 RH> proper lasagne. 

And she taught you lots of good Italian cooking... :)
 
 RH>> I've modified it to sometimes include meat, will try a spinach
 RH>> variation some time too. I've also had lasagne in a number of Italian
 RH>> restaurants in various places that didn't include meat so I guess it's
 RH>> a cook's choice.
 NB>> I suppose one could put just about anything into the layers between
 NB>> the noodles, or what one subs for the noodles...  I just wouldn't have
 NB>> called some of them lasagna...  :)

 RH> I think too many people think that anything layered with Italian
 RH> cheeses, maybe a bit of tomato sauce, qualifies as lasagne. Same as
 RH> pizza or chili--you get as many variations as there are cooks.

Some of which are nasty, some of which are merely interesting... and then
some that are good...  :)
 
 RH>> One of the best we've ever had was on an Olive Garden
 RH>> lasagne Lover's special, back in 1993. Steve & I had gone up to El Paso
 RH>> and decided we liked the seafood one the best. Never saw it again, sad
 RH>> to say, but one of these days I may make one.
 NB>> That sounds interesting, for sure.  Done right, seafood lasagne could
 NB>> be very tasty...  :)  Maybe that OG had a particularly creative cook,
 NB>> and went beyond the normal OG fare... :)

 RH> Could be; I did see a recipe for a seafood lasagne in one of my cook
 RH> books. I'll have to look it up and give it a try, figuring out how to
 RH> do a low carb version.

Find low carb noodles...?

 NB>> Buffet places (especially AYCE) probably lose enough money on the food
 NB>> that people pile on their plates and don't eat... that's a pretty
 NB>> standard rule at buffet places not to allow leftovers to be taken
 NB>> home. But cafeteria style places have more control over what goes on
 NB>> the plate, so usually do allow the take-home...

 RH> I'll do some checking next time we go to that place. IIRC, I did take
 RH> home a piece of chicken once when they served me 2, plus large
 RH> helpings of the sides I'd picked. Eating one, plus the sides was enough
 RH> to fill me so I asked (and got) a take home box.
 
So that is their policy, after all, probably...
 
 RH>> We've done so, and moved on before going back. Other places we made
 RH>> multiple visits to before moving on.
 NB>> Man proposes, God disposes, and all that...  :)

 RH> Yes, and even tho the military thinks they move troops, we know Who
 RH> really does.

Yup.  :) 
 
 RH>> BTW, the one bbq place that opened in town abotu 18 months ago--drove
 RH>> by the other day & it looks like they're gone. They started out good
 RH>> but their sides went downhill fast.
 NB>> One has to keep up the quality all around for the long run to be able
 NB>> to stay in business for the long run...  otherwise customers don't
 NB>> come back, and word-of-mouth works against instead of for...

 RH> Yes, this one started out so promising too. The one that's closer to
 RH> where we live is still going strong, doesn't look like they've
 RH> compromised on their sides. We stopped in a few weeks ago for lunch in
 RH> between stores on our grocery run.

They probably planned better... and remembered that it all counts, not
just the featured itmes...  :)

ttyl        neb

... In order to clean up, you've got to make a mess.

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