Vegetable Lasagne

I'm not vegetarian, but I eat very little meat mainly because I've been living with a vegetarian for three years. I felt so much healthier when I cut down to only eating meat once every few weeks. It took a bit of time to get used to it, but now I have a whole host of delicious vegetarian dishes, so I thought I'd share one of my favourites - vegetable lasagne.

Start by chopping the veg you want to make the layers. You can use whatever you want, but I like aubergine and peppers, with a bit of spinach thrown in for good measure. Put the aubergine and peppers with some oil drizzled over, with mixed herbs and garlic, in the oven at 200°C to roast. 

I like to get all the chopping out of the way first, so chop an onion and some mushrooms nice and small, so you can add them to the tomato sauce.

Pop them in a hot pan with some oil, add some stock and some chopped tomato.

  

A spoonful of red pesto really amps up the flavour. Add a sprinkling of mixed herbs and a chopped clove of garlic too,

Put the tomato sauce to the side, and make your white cheese sauce. Melt 25g of butter, and then add 25g of flour. Take off the heat, add around 300ml of milk, whisking all the time. Add a good handful of butter, a spoonful of grainy mustard, and whisk until it thickens.

Now it's time to layer up and put the lasagne together. Cover the base of a dish with the roasted veg, and sprinkle with spinach.

 Spread over the tomato sauce, and drizzle a bit of white sauce for good measure.

Add lasagne sheets, spread with white sauce over the top. Another layer of the tomato sauce, veg, more tomato sauce, and then lasagne sheets.

Finally, another layer of white sauce, and sprinkle a layer of grated cheese. 

Stick it in the oven at 200°C, and take it out after about half an hour, or when the cheese on top is a nice golden brown colour.

Do you have a favourite vegetarian recipe? I'd love to hear about it if you do - I'm always on the look out for new recipes! 

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You've been a long time coming but you're here now...

Last week I had to get up at 7am on my day off. Not cool. But it did mean that Ben and I got to pick up Anna and Dom from the train station and move into our lovely new flat, and celebrate Anna's birthday! So I suppose I can get over it. Because they arrived so obscenely early on the sleeper train we had plenty of time to catch up over breakfast in my favourite restaurant, The Sand Dollar. A café during the day and a bistro some nights of the week, the food is to die for and the staff are wonderful. We had a long day ahead, so we decided to fuel up good and proper...

The boys are very serious about their breakfast, but Anna looked a little happier to see hers.

After thoroughly stuffing ourselves we went back to the flat I'd been staying at temporarily for presents!

We're a very domesticated flat, and Anna got an incredible Dualit Coffee Machine off Dom and a glass bowl for her KitchenAid, commonly known as Baby, from Ben and I. Sadly both of these presents came in very big boxes, which didn't make our move any easier. But the boxes were nothing compared to the sofa...

Like I said. We're very domesticated.

   The boys did manly things for a while, and Anna and I had a bit of fun in the kitchen.



Finally, we finished the day how we started it. Piles and piles of food.

 Our eyes were a little bigger than our bellies though, so we had plenty of leftovers to get us through the next day of unpacking!

I'm so happy to finally be in this flat, it's been a long time coming. Now that I've been here a week or so, I'm starting to feel properly at home, but Ben and I are rattling a little. We definitely need it to be the end of the summer so that Anna and Dom come home from Bristol for good, and we're all back together again.

Anna has her own lovely blog - you should pop by, she's currently documenting her and Dom's summer down in Bristol.