Bolognese Redux: Part II

Several days ago, I told you about my exploits with bolognese sauce, which is like my favorite sauce ever.  I would highly, highly recommend this sauce to anyone because it happens to be just about the richest, most flavorful sauce I've ever encountered.

As we were eating pasta with sauce last weekend, Rob looked at me with a mouth full of food and a shirt full of sauce stains and said, "This sauce would make great lasagna".

Okay, maybe his mouth wasn't full.  Maybe I made that part up.  But he did say that, and I did agree with him wholeheartedly.

On Tuesday, my wonderful wonderful husband made that lasagna.  That lovely, cheesy, delicious, happy groan-inducing lasagna.  And he happened to take wonderful pictures of his work, just for this blog! Isn't he a sweetheart?

Two things you need to know about this picture:

1) To get an idea of scale, that is the bowl I serve pasta in.

2) He texted me this picture while I was at work.  So, so cruel.

It's ricotta cheese and a 5 Italian cheese blend mixed together, in case you wanted to know!

Meanwhile, my bolognese was being heated up on the stove a bit.

Just look at that.  Look at that and wish you were eating it.

He even laid out the cooked noodles and separated them with waxed paper - isn't he clever?

And the layering begins, friends.  Sauce then noodles...

...then sauce and cheese.  Lots and lots of cheese.  Oh my goodness gracious.

It's probably a good thing I wasn't around when this was going down.

Finally, layer after layer was laid down and the finished product was topped with tomato sauce, ricotta and the 5 cheese blend.

Check.  That.  Out.

And let me repeat: Good thing I wasn't home at the time.  Good thing.

This went into a 350 degree oven for 1 hour.  He stuck toothpicks in it before covering it in foil to make sure the foil rested on top of the toothpicks and didn't get all stuck to the cheese.  He's brilliant! He then took the foil and toothpicks off and let it sit uncovered in the oven for another 10 minutes.

Just...I mean...like...jeez.

You can tell who did the first set of shots versus the one above.  I wanted to show you the delicious layers but my hands were probably shaking with some sort of emotional strain brought on by intense cheese and pasta delight.

So there you go.  The man can make some lasagna happen, let me tell you.

He's also pretty darn good on the grill, but that's a whole other story.

So tell me: Do YOU like lasagna?

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