Laura's Random Rants: My Ghetto Lasagna

So this morning, I decided to make lasagna (cause I'm making dinner for some friends who just had their baby) and it was probably the most interesting lasagna I've ever made. So it started out well-I planned to make a 1 1/2 lasagnas (full for us and 1/2 for them) so I boiled 9 noodles (a full takes 3 noodles and half, I figured, would take 3). I half-boiled them (I was impatient so I pulled them out early). Then I realized the first bad thing... I only had 1 can of sauce (and I use 1 per lasagna) so I decided to stretch it. The second bad thing... my cottage cheese looked like grits because it had been frozen for a little while:

I don't know if you know what cottage

cheese looks like but it's not this.

However, I persevered. I cooked the meat, added the sauce, and made the first half lasagna successfully. But I realized something more bad as I kept going...I realized I had run out of cheese. Luckily, I had some in the freezer! So I got it out and preceeded to break it the usually way... by stepping on it and throwing it on the floor. My roommate, Amy, sat on the couch going, "Wouldn't it be funny if that bag split?" And I replied, "The bag won't split!" And then... bam! The bag split in the middle of our living room floor. Here is the re-inactment (because we already threw away the cheese but then I wanted pictures)

Our floor... it actually had like 10x's more cheese

than this but I didn't feel like being a complete

freak and spreading all of it on the floor! :)

Yeah, it didn't even really break... there were still

huge chunks!

Amy, chilling on the couch, is refraining

from saying, "I told you so!" But she

said it later...

So after the cheese disaster, Amy helped me clean up and I started to finish the lasagna. BUT then... I realized I was 1 noodle short! Ugh! So I took another noodle and started to boil it under the water in the sink... yeah, it doesn't work... so whoever eats that half of the lasagna will be sad (and have crunch noodles).