Lasagna from Hell.

The lasagna I made yesterday almost killed me. It wasn't your mother's Superstore lasagna. It was lasagna made from scratch. We had made the Ragu ingredient on Friday but we're required to make the Bechemal sauce, a sauce made of butter, flour and cream from scratch and the lasagna noodles. I have never made pasta but it was a lot of work and the instructors are perfectionists. My pasta dough ended up a little too moist which made it easier to kneed for the 30 minutes but then didn't run through the pasta machine as well. It was harder to handle and I needed help from Maggie the instructors. Eventually it all came together and tasted pretty good by the time it had baked. It was a marathon of 3.5 hours in the kitchen. We were really exhausted that afternoon. I got 2 great photos of myself helping another student whose name interestingly is Dora West. In the evening I went for a long walk along 6beach on the boardwalk with Doug in Yougal. Today I had a much easier day as I only had to make a Lentil Dahl with a Tamarind sauce. I started at 8:30 and was finished by 9:30. As such I made a loaf of brown yeast bread which was a lot easier than sour dough bread. My partner this week is Karina. Karina is from Dublin and had missed yesterday to attend a Suzuki music camp. Karina is a psychotherapist which is what I needed after the lasagna. She is a happy bubbly soul and lots of fun to work with. This evening I convinced Nils and Doug to go for a swim which was refreshing. The Irish heat wave if you could call it that has ended and the air temp has cooled down since last week.Read more