Spider-man and King Crimson

Lasgana day today. Something I planned ahead from my trip to the Garden Basket yesterday. Every time I make it is a little different and today was no exception. I make meat sauce using the rest of the marinara sauce from the pizza, and the rest of the ground beef. I gave it all a more Mediterranean flavour by including cinnamon, nutmeg and a dash of cumin. For the cheese part of the bechamel, I used the rest of the ricotta, then poured about a cup into the meat sauce. The ricotta gives the whole thing a much lighter feel than the more traditional lasagna. I also bought fresh lasagna sheets, whereas I usually buy the dried, so I was keen to see how different it is. Apart from that, it was just a simple layering: bechamel, meat sauce, pasta and so on.

Here it is, perched expectantly on the runway.

And here it is in roughly the same position, 45 minutes later.

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FOOD COSTS

Ricotta: $ 4.79 ($ 3.59)

Mozzarella: $ 5.49 ($ 0.49)

Beef: $ 6.41 ($ 4.21)

The costs were shared from last night's pizza, which the girls had for lunch today. The lasagna will be their lunch tomorrow, so I basically got four meals for less than $ 25. The two lunches are complemented with a small salad using ingredients I bought a while ago.

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Apart from being all busy with Spider-man, the lovely and talented TV Carpio also graciously made time for a small part in the movie Limitless, starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. It comes out on March 18, and it looks like a movie I want to see, and not just because TV is in it! You can watch it here. I would embed it but it sticks out, covering the labels to the right,  and won't automatically resize to fit the space ... anyone know why?

I can't let it go without mentioning King Crimson's 21st Century Schizoid Man of which you can hear one line near the end of the trailer. The movie uses (I think) Kanye West's Power, which samples the line I heard. And in an interesting connection, Kanye West came backstage the other day and had pictures taken with TV! Also at the show, though he didn't take photos with anyone, was David Bowie. Bowie, you may remember did  Heroes. But who played on the original track? King Crimson's Robert Fripp! Spooky! If only I could work Kevin Bacon into this ...

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