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I have no recipe for this dish, but only a procedure. Feel free to experiment. Like snowflakes, no two Blue Cheese Lasagna are exactly alike. INGREDIENTS: 1. First, the sauce. If I'm in a hurry, I buy fairly top-of-the-line commercial SAUCE ("water should not be the first ingredient. Avoid SAUCE that contains sugar or, at least, a lot of sugar) and tweak it. Otherwise, I go the route of tomatoes and paste and home-made stuff. Either way, take a large deep pot, and start by frying some chopped ONION and a CLOVE OR SO OF GARLIC on medium-to high heat and in as little OLIVE OIL as you can reasonably manage. As ONIONS become translucent, add the MUSHROOMS. Stir often and be certain nothing burns. When the risk of overcooking arises, add the other sauce ingredients, the tomatoes OR the commercial sauce. Reduce heat soon after Definitely add fresh TOMATOES, EVEN if you are using commercial sauce. You'll need many more TOMATOES if you're making the sauce from scratch, but you probably knew that already. Add whatever seasonings you like, add about half of the chopped OLIVES and some WINE, preferably red. I like to put in a few dashes of HOT SAUCE. Let this simmer for awhile on low heat. A longer simmer time produces thicker sauce. You can drink some of the WINE while you wait. Don't wear anything that will stain, as the SAUCE, even on the lowest heat setting, will splash from time to time. Note: Many creamy blue cheeses exist, and even crumbly blue cheese will do, but I really like the way Costella blends nicely when heated. It's not always easy to find, but it's one of those cheeses developed by monks. If this point comes up at the Cheese Shop, make the "an Abbots invented Costella" joke (or variant thereof) at your own risk. |