CATH - Marie-LASAGNE recipe

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Hi Cath,

 

I'm glad you like the recipe. It really is delicious. When worked at the

Australian Taxation Office my boss used to make jokes about me being a

vegetarian. It was all in good fun and he was never cruel or unkind but he did

make it clear that he didn't think that 'all that vegetarian stuff' was 'man's

food'. One day I had some of the lasagne left over so I took it to work and

left it in the kitchen with a note saying that anyone who wanted it was welcome

to take some. Bernie, my boss, warmed some up in the microwave and had it for

his lunch without realising that it was from me. He then walked around the

section asking who had left the delicious lasagne as he wanted the recipe to

take home for his wife who is a very keen cook. He finally had to admit that

vegetarians eat more than lettuce leaves and celery sticks!!

 

1 ounce is 28 grams so 125 g is approximately 5 ounces.

 

I'm always happy to help out with metric/Imperial/American conversions but if

you are ever stuck and need an immediate answer, this is a great site to use.

 

http://www.onlineconversion.com/

 

Have you checked the Gillian McKeith books to see if she has a conversion

chart in them. If she is aiming at both the English and American markets she

may well have included one. I have a couple of her books buried somewhere in my

pile of cookbooks. I must look them out and check.

 

I know what you mean about being metrically challenged. I survived the

changeover from Imperial to metric in Australia but for some things I still

think in Imperial measures. For longer distances I think in metres/kilometres

but I'd still a feet and inches person for things like heights and anything less

than about 10 feet. About 6 months after the metric changeover the police

started to use feet and inches again in addition to metric measurements when

describing people they were looking for. I will always remember his expression

when he was explaining the reason for reverting to using feet and inches in

descriptions - he said 'metric criminals are proving very difficult to catch'.

It seems as if I am not the only one who has trouble with metric heights!!

 

I'm sure your son will love and very much appreciate the cookbook you do for

him. It's a great idea. It is definitely a lot of work but well worth the

effort and I'm positive that you will enjoy doing it.

 

Cheers from Marie

 

 

catherineleslie1 wrote:

Marie,

 

Thank you SO MUCH for the Eggplant Lasagna recipe! The next time I go to

the grocery store I'm going to pick up the needed ingredients and make it. It

looks wonderful!

 

Can you please tell me how much 125g is in ounces? I really should try and

find a conversion chart somewhere. I recently bought 3 of Gillian McKeith's

books, and she uses metric measurements in some of her recipes, and I have no

clue how grams relate to ounces. I'm metrically challenged. (-: I remember many

years ago they tried to get Americans to switch over to metrics, and there

was such an uproar that it neve happened.

 

What a great idea to do up a cookbook with recipes submitted by your

friends! And it was nice that you put little bios in so your friends could learn

a

little about each other.

 

Speaking of cookbooks, over the Christmas holiday I told my son, who has

been a vegetarian since high school (he's now 30) that I would start working on

making up a cookbook for him, of my favorite vegetarian recipes. He moved to

Albany NY a year and a half ago and I suspect he's living on pasta and veggie

burgers when he cooks at home, and that has to be pretty boring. I was thinking

of getting a three ring binder, and plastic sheets that I could insert the

recipes into, and dividers to separate entrees from side dishes, etc etc. That

way he could lay the binder flat on the counter for easy viewing and the

plastic would shield the recipes from splatters. It will be quite a project but

it

will be fun.

 

Thanks again for the recipe!

 

Cath

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Hi Marie,

 

That was a funny story about your boss and your eggplant lasagna. Thanks

for sharing it! It gave me a chuckle.

 

I wish so many people didn't have the misconception that vegetarians live

on leaves, twigs and berries. I think a vegetarian diet can be so much more

varied and interesting than the meat eaters meat and potato diet. I mean, how

boring is that?

 

Cath (-:

 

 

 

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About converting metric to imperial and vice

versa:

 

Charts are invaluable! And I'm lucky enough to

have a kitchen scale that will convert, with the

touch of a button, one weight measurement to its

imperial or metric equivalent.

 

HOWEVER, try going to Google and typing in 125 g

in ounces - or whatever it is you are trying to

convert. It comes up in less time than it took to

type it in.

 

Love and hugs, Pat

 

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On 1/9/08, catherineleslie1 <catherineleslie1 wrote:

>

> I wish so many people didn't have the misconception that vegetarians live

> on leaves, twigs and berries. I think a vegetarian diet can be so much more

> varied and interesting than the meat eaters meat and potato diet. I mean, how

> boring is that?

 

I agree!

 

What I find amusing is when people, who I know for a fact have about 5

different dinners that they cook over and over, say that they would

get bored with a vegetarian diet. (I think they are imagining a big

green salad for dinner every night!)

 

The truth is that, even with my limited ingredient base (as I've

mentioned before, 99% of my meals are built around beans) I am

*always* trying out new recipes and new flavors.

 

And - JOY! - the UPS delivery man just brought me my

Christmas/graduation gift from my mother! I have a food processor now!

(The first ever in my life!) Oh, the kitchen's going to be humming

now!!

 

I kept coming across recipes I really wanted to try that *required* a

food processor (ex. nut pate) and finally knew that I needed one and

that it was about much more than cutting up onions more quickly and

into prettier pieces.

 

So . . . if anybody else has a food processor and a favorite recipe or

two that requires it, I'm all ears over here!

 

Sparrow