it's a cloudy and windy day here in Madrid...and I'm sure that the fall has come to stay... Eat, Drink Man Woman on TV, and Alvaro having a "siesta" just beside me... just the perfect combination...
I love this movie, each time I watch it, I wish I had grown up in China, with all that tradition and that cooking paradise..."my childhood is full of smells" just like Jia-Jen said...if you haven't watched it, please make the effort, it's worth it...
well, I didn't make chinise food, just a Lasagna. But for me it has the same meaning. it's elaborated and you have to start a couple of hours before lunch, and I love to do it. It's a shame that because of work I can't dedicate as many hours as I wish to the kitchen...
well, this lasagna is half of meat and half vegetarian, so you can always add more vegetables, like brocoli and make it totally vegetarian if you prefer it that way...here you have the recipe...
1kg of spinach
3 or 4 carrots
1 big onion
200grs of loose corn
500gr grinded meat
1 grinded tomato can
salt, sugar
precooked dry lasagna pasta
parmesan cheese
Chop the onion and in two pans add half and half of it. In one of them you will cook the onion, the carrot , the spinach and the corn, in that order and always waiting for the carrot to be well cooked, if not it will be too hard.
In the other pan you'll make the same as for a bolognese sause, onion, meat, and the tomato can. The only difference is that for this one you need it more liquid, so that you can add it on top of the dry lasagna pasta.
The next step is quite simple, make different coats, the first one of meat, the second one of spinach and the last one again of meat, separating the coats with the dry lasagna . On top I always cover it with parmesan cheese, but some people make a bechamel sauce, it depends on what you like best.
Enjoy!
Thank you, My Sweet, for reminding me of that precious movie.
Though I must say, your choice of words doesn't sit right with me: "JUST a lasagna"...
Posted by: Courtney | Monday, October 24, 2005 at 00:50
wow!!the vegetable part of it looks sooo delicious!!!I can't say the same about the dead cow, sorry;)...I don't know why I still visit your blog before breakfast, now I will kill for pan con tomatito from the self-service downstairs!!!
Posted by: Irene | Tuesday, October 18, 2005 at 10:26
hi Mona! I wish I lived in NY!! It's the city of my dreams!! but, no, I live in Madrid...snif, snif...but you made my day with this little confusion, jijij ;)
Hi Melissa! Yes I know what you mean, the colors make a simple dish really exciting! that movie you're talking about, I think it's called Tortilla Soup, I never had the chance to watch it...but still I love that cooking atmosphere.
Hi Paz! I also wish you could be here to have a nice lunch together and chat...maybe someday...
Beixos to all!! And many thanks for stopping by!!
Posted by: tattum | Thursday, October 13, 2005 at 22:05
Damn Tattum, that looks awesome. I thought you were in NY. Are you visiting Madrid? or living there?
Posted by: Mona | Thursday, October 13, 2005 at 20:29
Hi Tattum, that lasagna looks absolutely stunning! I love all the layers of different ingredients and colors. I also loved Eat Drink Man Woman, and a few years after I saw it I rented another movie which turned out to be a remake of that movie, but concerned a Mexican-American family in Los Angeles - but it had exactly the same story, just Mexican food instead of Chinese!
Posted by: Melissa | Thursday, October 13, 2005 at 16:22
Yum! Wish I were there for lunch! ;-)
I like movies where part of the theme is food. I enjoyed Eat Drink Man Woman very much. I've even listed it as one of my links.
Happy Cooking,
Paz
Posted by: Paz | Thursday, October 13, 2005 at 03:50