all you ever wanted was someone to take care of you
I completely blanked last week that Lent was starting - I am not even a C&E Catholic anymore, just a weddings & funerals Catholic - and I figured that 1. it wasn't even a sin really to eat meet on Ash Wednesday because 2. wasting the food would be worse. The pope should just call me on doctrinal matters from now on. *snerk* (I did manage to go meatless on Friday thanks to free bagels at work for breakfast and lunch.) But this week I decided to try to be better and have meatless Fridays because 1. I don't eat meat all that often anyway and 2. I feel like the effort to occasionally be mindful of what Lent means is...it makes me feel less bad about my complicated feelings about religion. Like, I might not be observant but at least I'm occasionally paying attention? Idek.
And I've just deleted a whole ramble about that because nobody cares, and that is not even what I wanted to talk about, which is that in the past I've made single serving lasagna squares for lunch using wonton wrappers, so that is what I was planning for this week (though instead of tomato sauce, I like to mix pesto with ricotta and use that), but I couldn't find wonton wrappers so I bought spring roll wrappers instead, and made ersatz manicotti instead of ersatz lasagna. Which was an interesting experience, as I had never worked with them before. The directions on the container say you should blanch them in boiling water, but the internet told me I could just run them under hot water in the sink before I filled them and that seemed to work okay.
I can report that the stuffed part works just fine but the folded over ends were too hard to eat, in my opinion. So I think next time - since I still have a bunch of them left - I will just trim the ends off instead of folding them over. Live and learn.
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And I've just deleted a whole ramble about that because nobody cares, and that is not even what I wanted to talk about, which is that in the past I've made single serving lasagna squares for lunch using wonton wrappers, so that is what I was planning for this week (though instead of tomato sauce, I like to mix pesto with ricotta and use that), but I couldn't find wonton wrappers so I bought spring roll wrappers instead, and made ersatz manicotti instead of ersatz lasagna. Which was an interesting experience, as I had never worked with them before. The directions on the container say you should blanch them in boiling water, but the internet told me I could just run them under hot water in the sink before I filled them and that seemed to work okay.
I can report that the stuffed part works just fine but the folded over ends were too hard to eat, in my opinion. So I think next time - since I still have a bunch of them left - I will just trim the ends off instead of folding them over. Live and learn.
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