Lasagna

I finally found something to make a lasagna in not the ceramic dish I was searching for but the loaf tin that was already in my cupboard something clicked yesterday and this was the result:



I used a the white sauce recipe from Vegan Village, which really was easy to make as long as you keep stirring it, I added some ground black pepper for flavour but there are many possibilities here garlic, onion or maybe some kind of cheese replacement as you prefer.

For the tomato sauce I made do with a generic supermarket jar I'm afraid - life is just way to hectic to do everything from scratch right?

I began the layering process with white sauce followed by a lasagna sheet, then tomato sauce then a layer of sliced mushrooms, onion and green peppers and repeat. Ending with the tomato sauce and vegetable layer avoided a previous issue that I had encountered with the white sauce drying out while cooking. The vegetables on the top were roasted to perfection after about 30 mins.

Top the lasagna with Parmazano and serve with freshly baked garlic and herb baguette.

Bliss.

Chick Pea Pasta Salad

I couldn't face a hot meal tonight, I needed something quick and cool. I based this dish on the tuna pasta salad that my Mum made me as a kid. It's very simple but it's filling and makes a bit of a change. Basically I just cooked some pasta, whizzed up some chick peas in the blender, mixed the cooked pasta with the chick peas, some sunflower seeds and some salad cream and that's it. Almost too simple, try adding other seeds, sweetcorn, or whatever you fancy.