Even though I’ve been eating it all year, I still don’t understand lasagna. I think we can move past criticizing that pretentious silent ‘g”. We’re all adults here.
But as far as I can tell, Lasagna is assembled like a tower of cards; in alternating sauce and noodle layers. Topped off by a cheese and egg layer to prevent crisping of the noodles and to slightly emulsify with the sauce.
But lasagna is eaten from above like a cake. Fork goes in the top. So why is it assembled sideways? Certain foods are assembled horizontally, like sandwiches, but they’re also eaten horizontally. Lasagna is assembled horizontally but eaten vertically. What?! Who engineered this food/wrote the eating procedure?
Whenever I eat lasagna, the layers slide off each other and the structure of lasagna becomes that of that of a really poorly executed flan. Or is there some important secret technique to eating lasagna that no one has let me in on?
I think you might be over-reacting. I mean lazagna was created by the engineering geniuses who brought us the leaning tower of Pisa.
It sounds like it is the technique with which the food is being made, not eaten that is the problem.
Alternate the egg-cheese mixture between each layer of noodles, sauce between layers. It retains it’s horizontal structure when cut (although probably not the first piece, that’s a don’t serve to guests piece). Go crazy and add some spinach too.
It should not be a soupy mess when you cut it. Nor should it be an unmovable solid. There’s a fine balance. This is a decent picture.
Also, how is a sandwich eaten horizontally? Don’t you bite vertically, perpendicular to the horizontal layers?
I actually don’t mind entropic lasagna as long as there’s enough sauce. I just recently stumbled upon this blog and became a subscriber and wanted to homage it.
you’re welcome for making you an edible dinner. Ungrateful brat. I will take any subsequent attempts in food preparation to people who appreciate it.