Snarky Lasagne

A couple of things this morning precipitated this post, aside from the precipitation. Woke up a little earlier than normal, and the Blazers haven't played in a while (all-star break), so had lots of free time on the interweb. Heard an NPR story on snarkiness. And then I read this blog post about lasagne on 101Cookbooks. Now I love 101Cookbooks, it's got great photography, lots of good recipes, good writing, she usually namedrops cookbooks, etc. Heck, there's a link to it off of my page. But her lasagne post is lame. Her technique is basically straight up italian, there's nothing new here, and she doesn't mention that at all. You've got to respect your roots! Also, rolling out your pasta to '8' is not thin, '9' is thin, and is the setting to use for lasagne. Finally, she used the american spelling of lasagne... This is a much better post about lasagne -- namedroping Marcella Hazan is always good!

You'd think a 3 day weekend would leave me in greater cheer. C'est la vie. Perhaps the 4 day week will help....

That said, this photo makes me happy. It's a cookbook store in Westmount, Quebec. Note the door handle. Photo by Clare, used without permission, as of yet.