Grilled veggie lasagna from Dinner with Julie (DiceFood.com)

August 28, 2008 | By glarr00 In Secret Recipes |

Grilled veggie lasagna from Dinner with Julie

Lasagna isn’t really my thing. I will happily eat it when others prepare it, but I’ve always found it to be sort of fussy and unappealing to make on my own (all that pasta pre-boiling and careful layering just left me cold). Besides, I always felt like you could get comparable flavors with a pasta bake - noodles tumbled together with garlicky red sauce, sauteed spinach and a carton of ricotta cheese and topped with a generous layer of mozzarella cheese has always been my favorite.

However, having seen the grilled veggie lasagna that Julie posted yesterday, I’m starting to rethink my previous anti-lasagna position. For one thing, the step-by-step pictures she took are really lovely and show off the rustic beauty of the grilled veggies. Her recipe also reminded me that you can use no-bake noodles, rendering one of my lasagna complaints moot. And lastly, seeing it done, it just doesn’t look that difficult or fiddly. I may be a convert sooner, rather than later.

How about the rest of you? Are you a lasagna maker or more of a pasta bake person?

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Bob's Big Boy Super Slim Jim Bob’s Big Boy announced today that they’ve brought back the “Super Slim Jim”, a ham, swiss sandwich, witht their “special sauce”, on a grecian roll.

Here in Southern California, there are some Bob’s Big Boy restaurants still around, but not many. There used to be just many Bob’s as there were Denny’s here in the Southland. But then one-by-one, they all went away.

I know just a few of them are still here.

There’s one in Baker, CA, which took over the old “Bun Boy”. But this Bob’s is nothing like the old Bob’s. You set foot in there, and it feels like a “fake Bob’s”. The Big Boy statue may be outside, but the restaurant doesn’t have that genuine Bob’s feel to it. About the only menu item that has carried over from those glory days is that “Big Boy” double decker burger.

My wife and I used to go to Bob’s in Laguna Hills for their breakfast buffet. I always found their bacon to be the way I like it, soft and dripping with oil. Let that oil drip down over the hash browns. Their hash browns was also the way I liked it, soft.

I just got news that a Bob’s Big Boy is coming to Temecula, CA, just about 20 minutes from my home. It’s taking over the old Ritchie’s Diner. I’m sure my wife will be setting up a new home-away-from-home in there.
Source: www.junkfoodblog.com

Lifetime whips up a new cooking show

Filed under: Television/Film

Reuters reports that the Lifetime network is cooking up 3 new shows — one on weight loss (yawn), one on clairvoyance, and one on cooking.

The latter, called Mom’s Cooking, will be a half-hour weekday series that focuses on moms teaching their daughters how to cook their favorite childhood recipes. So far, the channel has ordered 20 episodes with half of them to be shot in New York, and half in Atlanta. I have to give them props for the idea — it’ll be nice to get some classic home cooking on TV that’s not from Paula Deen. And getting kids to cook makes it even better.

However … I wish it wasn’t only catered to women, because believe it or not, guys have beloved homemade recipes too. Yes, I know it’s “television for women,” but at the very least — mom could teach son sometimes, or Dad could teach daughter. There’s no reason for television shows in 2008 to stick so rigidly to old stereotypes.

So, this question is for you guys out there — What beloved recipes did you learn from mom or dad?

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