Tried and True

Tonight I tried Kari's "Na's Pasta" for dinner. Delish!! The recipe is so huge, Ashley and I estimated it probably makes about 16 servings, you think, Kari?? Everything fit into two big casserole dishes. Matt, Ashley, and I managed to eat about a 1/3 of the one batch. The other 2/3 is waiting to be leftovers for the rest of the week, and the second dish is freezing for a later date :) Definitely a great recipe! It was nice, especially after a couple weeks of frozen pizzas, random stir frys or hot pockets.

Before the frozen-pizza-random-stir-frys-hot-pockets phase, I revisited another recipe that was blog worthy the first time I tried it. Reference: The Domestic Disaster. The 50 minute recipe that took 2 hours, that resulted in theatening with knives, a burnt hand, and using every dish and utensil in the kitchen to make an enormous mess. It was an absolutely awful cooking experience, but the memory of the food tasting good inspired us to try the Lasagna Roll Ups one more time (after all the stressful memories... and burns... faded away).

This time the cooking experience was a complete 180! Everything went very smooth, no burns, only minimal dishes and utensils were used... It's a complicated recipe with 3 things going on at once at times, and we harmoniously worked on different tasks at the same time and everything came together just how Giada made it look on TV. Just took a little... or a lot... more planning and communication than occurred the first time around!

Other than that there is not much new in the kitchen of Jamie... and there are 2 minutes left in the Pens game right now so I'm too distracted to wrap this up with a real concluding thought... other than GO PENS!!

:)