Really Homemade Lasagna

Ok friends. I did it. I really, actually did it. I made a meal almost 100% from scratch - it depends on how nit-picky you want to get. I didn't make the mozzarella cheese, nor did I can my own tomatoes. But otherwise, I didn't open any containers to get the ingredients for my meal. I found a recipe online called "Thousand Layer Lasagna". It involved making your own pasta, so I thought I'd give it a shot. The key is to make paper thin layers of pasta alternating between super thin layers of sauce and cheese.

Sadly, my meat sauce was just WAY to thick and it over-powered the whole dish. The cheese layer was fine, but the pasta sheets were just so thin you could barely tell it was there. So while I don't discourage you from making a thousand layer lasagna (which is a slight exaggeration), I say proceed with caution. Your layers really do need to be thin.

It doesn't look terrible at least...

Tomato and Gorgonzola Soup

Tonight was one of those nights where I would have been content to eat a bowl of cereal, or snack on goldfish and ice cream instead of make something for dinner. But then I got to thinking of all the seemingly random ingredients I have collected over the last few weeks that really need to be eaten. I didn't want to make anything complicated - Carter ate dinner when he woke up from his nap at 4pm (he went to sleep without eating lunch today) and Matt was already in bed getting his nap on before work.

I had 4 ounces of Gorgonzola cheese, fresh basil from my garden, and a ridiculous number of canned diced tomatoes in the pantry. I was either going to make some kind of strange sauce for pasta, or make a soup. And even though it's 95 degrees outside, I opted for the soup figuring it would be lighter than any pasta dish I made.

The Ingredients