Category: Food

Lasagna

How I make lasagna

There are so many different ways to make lasagna and now I just want to share with you how I make lasagna.

My lasagna has following ingredients:

  • Ground beef
  • Onions, chopped
  • Garlic, minced
  • Tomato sauce
  • Coconut milk
  • Heavy wiping cream
  • Pumpkin puree
  • Lasagna sheets
  • Chili (own fermented)
  • Parmesan cheese (grated)
  • Gouda cheese (grated)
  • Salt & pepper
  • Paprika powder

First of all the onions get backed in some olive oil or some butter. Then the ground beef is added and backed until nicely browned. Now I ad in the tomato sauce, coconut milk, heavy wiping cream, salt & pepper and paprika powder. Normally I would ad some home made broth (chicken or beef), but I forgot to tau this. Therefore I have to ad some water instead. This needs to get warm and don’t forget to stir. Finally I ad the pumpkin puree and some chili. This should get nice and warm and when the pumpkin puree is dissolved the sauce is ready.

Now to fill the oven dishes. Starting with the sauce on the bottom and then covering with the lasagna sheets. Then another layer of sauce and then sprinkling on the parmesan cheese and covering with lasagna sheets again. And some more sauce and sprinkling with some Gouda cheese and covering with lasagna sheets. Now go on with sauce and lasagna sheets finishing with the sauce on top until the dishes are full or the ingredients are used. On top comes a layer of Gouda cheese. It could have been more cheese on top, but it was good anyway. Put this in the oven by 200°C for about 40 Min.

And this is how it looks when it comes out of the oven.

Enjoy your meal

My preserved garlic seems to be fermenting

Does anybody know if this is normal?

About a month ago I preserved garlic in olive oil and put it in the refrigerator for quick and easy use as needed. No I have noticed that there is pressure underneath the lid when I take the glass out of the refrigerator. I have not noticed a bad smell or taste, but I do wonder if this is normal and for how long will the garlic be usable?

We will see.

Cooking a Lamb shank

Slow cooking a Lamb shank in the oven makes for very tender and delicious meat

We helped out a friend of ours who is a shepherd and got a Lamb shank as a thank you. He gave us the tip to slow cook the Lamb shank and we cooked it right away.

First I seared the Lamb shank all around in butter and put it in an oven dish in the oven. Unfortunately my oven only starts at 100°C, so I used that for the Lamb shank. Slow cooking should be done at 80 – 90°C for somewhere between 8 – 10 hours. I figured about 6 hours would be enough when cooked at 100°C. I forgot to put the garlic in with the Lamb shank, so I put it in with the Lamb shank later.

The 6 hours in the oven turned out to be a bit long at that temperature. The lamb shank was a bit dark and a bit crisp at the outside, but the meat was very tender and so delicious.

All in all this is a very easy way to cook up some meat with little effort. Next time I should cook it a little bit shorter and maybe it would be better to pore some olive oil over the meat from time to time wile it is cooking in the oven.