Moussagne, lassaka?

After yesterday we intended to have a much quieter day. Having said that we have two people coming into the gîte d’étape this evening, so there was cleaning and bedmaking to do. We also managed a trip to the market.

A little while ago, a couple of weeks or so, I found some gluten free lasagne in the cupboard. I obviously bought it when I last went to the UK. So for a week or so I have been meaning to make a lasagne. Today became the day.

Whilst I was creating the meat sauce I discovered that I had two aubergines left over from last week. Given that I know what I’m eating each main meal until Monday evening I realised that they are likely to get left. Now whenever I cook something that takes a little longer I liked to get two days worth and if at all possible one for the freezer too. I had an idea and suddenly this began to look possible.

I made the meat sauce in the usual way. I thinly sliced the aubergines and made my cheat’s version of a white sauce with fromage blanc and a couple of eggs. Having got everything together I layered pasta, aubergines, meat sauce, aubergines, pasta white sauce. I topped everything with grated nutmeg and the grated three cheeses available here in the supermarket.

I can’t yet tell you how it tastes. However it looks and smells good. The egg in the sauce makes it rise a little on the top which I like. So all in all I’m hopeful. I will let you know what we think of it. We just need to agree on its name Moussagne or Lassaka!

Until tomorrow…