Experimentees: Dawna, Adam, Tony, Nathan
My only request was to come with an open heart. Dawna insisted on a kale salad. With ten minutes to go before the lasgna was suppose to come out of the oven, we peeked in and did NOT feel confident on the status of these mysterious no-boil noodles, and I was almost compelled to text Dawna to make it a big kale salad.
As soon as Brad came in I was already stressing out. He was late because of a broken toe emergency at the Ono Pop's shop when a Baby Duck Rescue went afoul. I was freaking out because the recipe told me to add water to the sauteed veggies to prevent sticking and I felt I might have overcompensated because it no longer smelled like garlic and onions and now it looked like I was boiling the veggies.
Brad: "So I've heard an awesome veggie lasagne is mushroom, spinich and cream sauce instead of tomatoe sauce ... And many different kinds of cheeses! So, what time should I come by for this cooking adventure?"
Me: "Well, actually, I was maybe kind of thinking no cheese"
Brad: "What the what?!?? Lasagna without cheese!? Are you mad?Well, its worth a shot."
Brad: "Josh says without cheese we can't call it lasagna... or he'll beat us up... we just will have to come up with a cool name for it."
me: "lasgaNOT"
Brad: "Perfect"
Josh: "What is your major malfunction? Lasagna w out chz? There's lots of delicious things you can make that don't have chz. LASAGNE IS NOT ONE OF THEM."
Josh: "Ah text yelling. It's cathartic. But seriously is one of your guests vegan? Why? I'm not haunted, just sort of curious about the willful lameness of it all."
Brad's "Are you fucking kidding me" face. This was maybe the second time I had him remove, and then put back, a filling layer because we weren't laying them down according to the recipe's order.
Brad, always the classy gentleman, called this "spanking the lasagna"