recipes

infusing

earl grey gin

bottle of grey whale gin

6 bigelow earl grey tea bags

steep for 2-5 days depending on how strong you’d like tea

don’t refridgerate until you take the teabags out

tata’s menu

summer pesto lasagna

bechamel pesto sauce:

 2 tbsp. butter

 2 tbsp. flour 

1 1/2 cups whole milk 

1/4 tsp. salt 

1/4 tsp. black pepper 

1 1/2 cups pesto (i used the superfood brand one from raley’s) 

2 diced tomatoes, lots of corn, and asparagus 

melt the butter over medium-low heat and combine flour. stir for like a minute before adding your salt and pepper and stirring in your milk. i did like 1/4 cup at at time to make sure everything was smooth before adding in the pesto. roast the veggies until they have a little bit of brown/crispiness to them before mixing them into the sauce. even if you think you’re doing a lot, you could do more.

cheese mix: 

15 oz ricotta 

1/3 cup (probably even more) grated parmesan 

1 egg 1/2 tsp. dried basil 1/2 tsp garlic powder 

1/2 tsp salt 

1/2 tsp black pepper 

you also need:

 oven ready lasagna noodles 

3-4 cups grated mozzarella 

more parmesan to top 

a baguette (duuuhhh) 

garlic more butter 

how to assemble/bake: 

i chose a smaller, deeper pan because i prefer to have more layers but it might be easier to use a longer one because it was kinda annoying to break the noodles to size so pick your battles i guess? 

make a light bed of the pesto coating the bottom of the pan and then go in with your noodles. between each layer it goe :

 generous layer of cheese mix, don’t be shy more is better 

pesto sauce

mozzarella fully covering the sauce

noodle

preheat the oven to 375 and let her bake for 50 minutes before broiling on high for 10 minutes while you wait, crush some garlic and melt a bit of butter in a sauce pan and add the garlic (rocket science) and when you can really smell it… add more butter cause youre gonna need to coat your bagette slices before you throw those bad boys in the oven at 350 until they’re crispy. i think imay had added some rosemary and thyme in there too but this was last week so your guess is as good as mine.