Yesterday, a friend had a day-after-halloween pumpkin party: bring your favorite pumpkin dish. The menu consisted of pumpkin soup, a black bean and pumpkin stew, pumpkin seeds atop a green salad, pumpkin brownies for dessert, a carved pumpkin for decoration, and...pumpkin lasagna!
Okay, now let's focus on the last food item that I mentioned. Close your eyes. Now, when I say the words "pumpkin lasagna", what comes to mind? Well, when the chef of said food item said pumpkin lasagna, what came to my mind was the following: "Okay, he layered chunks of pumpkin between lasagna noodles, then covered the noodles with cheese and sauce, and there ya go! Pumpkin lasagna!"
Well imagine my and everyone else's surprise when what emerged from the oven was not your usual casserole dish holding neat layers of noodles and sauce, but rather one half of a carved out pumpkin with noodles, meat and sauce on the inside.
After recovering from our initial shock at this new development and piece of culinary ingenuity, we all circled around the pumpkin lasagna to have a better look. We then tentatively shoveled the contents of the pumpkin onto our respective plates. And guess what. The contents basically tasted like lasagna. Now, place this idea on reserve in your head for next halloween. You, too, can delight your friends and impress your loved ones. Cook a lasagna in a pumpkin.
This is brilliant! Can you eat the pumpkin bowl also?
ReplyDeleteWe didn't...but I don't see why not! This is something I can definitely see you making =)
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