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Lasagne is one of my biggest conundrums. It’s oh-so-delicious, but it’s also oh-so-labour-intensive.
Make a white sauce; make a tomato sauce; make your veggie filling; layer, layer, layer.
None of these things are particularly difficult on their own, but when you have to do them all simultaneously, it can become a bit of a headache. Even when it’s all cooked and ready to serve, I still manage to make a mess – somehow cutting through several layers of pasta is too difficult for my stupid hands and I end up dragging an entire sheet of lasagne out from the middle of my beautifully layered dish (please tell me someone else does this too?).
All of this culminates in my life containing far less lasagne than I would…
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