{"id":6900,"date":"2014-03-28T02:17:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T09:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2014-03-28T02:17:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T09:17:40","slug":"lasagna-an-adverture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2014\/03\/lasagna-an-adverture\/","title":{"rendered":"Lasagna, an Adverture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kids, and many, knew that I love watching cooking shows. They also knew that I am a theorist, not a experimentalist, of culinary arts.  For that matter, I am not even a good enough critic.  Heavy smoking during my youthful years irreversibly damaged my taste buds.<\/p>\n<p>Why did I, then, attempt to make Lasagna?  Something reserved exclusively for restaurants and experienced cooks?<\/p>\n<p>Kids gave me the birthday present of <em>American Test Kitchen<\/em> and expected something delicious, from me  I read the Lasagna recipe three times, cross-checked with <a href=\"http:\/\/allrecipes.com\/\">allrecipes.com<\/a>, made sure that I understood the concept, and picked the time when I am guaranteed to be the only victim of the outcome to experiment.  Oh, they gave me the book slightly over a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Lasagna has three parts: the sauce, the cheese, and the noodles.  Clearly the key challenge is the sauce, therefore I chose the most traditional one: meat sauce.<\/p>\n<p>Kid said it is a 3-hour process, so I shopped in the morning and began cooking at 2:30pm for a 6pm dinner time.  I chose  Wife&#8217;s <em>Le Cleuset<\/em>, trying to get every possible edges that existed.  I kept on sampling the sauce until it tasted like a standard meaty pizza.  Hey, if the noodles and cheeses are OK, I might have something edible.<img src=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140302_175524.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=600 \/><\/p>\n<p>At 5pm, the oven, at 375&deg;F, received my dinner.  Forty minutes later, I took out the Lasagna and let it cool for 10 more minutes.  Then I dived in!<\/p>\n<p>It did not taste half bad!  I would even let other people try this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids, and many, knew that I love watching cooking shows. They also knew that I am a theorist, not a experimentalist, of culinary arts. For that matter, I am not even a good enough critic. Heavy smoking during my youthful &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2014\/03\/lasagna-an-adverture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6955,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions\/6955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}