Lasagne with Spinach Salad and Poached Pear with Shiraz Sauce and Marscapone

Lasagne with Spinach Salad
Poached pear with Shiraz sauce and Marscapone


























I had the urge to make a lasagne today, it turned out pretty good. The three year declared, "The prosciutto (he pronounced it prosuita) makes it even yummier". So I must have done something right. The contrast of the luscious mince sauce and the salty, stringy texture of the prosciutto was great. The spinach salad with a standard lemon/olive oil dressing was tasty too, even if my wife insisted on using a prepared dressing instead. That aside, I'm firmly a convert to salting my salads now, it makes a noticable difference to the taste. I also made a desert for a change, and a very tasty one at that. Although the three year old, wouldn't have a bar of it.


Ingredients

Lasagna

• Mince Sauce
• Mozzarella
• Lasagna sheets
• Prosciutto

Mince Sauce

• Veal mince (supermarket, so I doubt it was veal)
• Pork mince
• Onions
• Garlic
• Tomatoes, tinned
• Tomato paste
• Carrot
• Salt
• Pepper
  

Lasagna sheets

• 'oo' strength flour
• Egg
  

Spinach Salad

• Spinach
• Cucumber
• Tomatoes
• Capsicum
• Lemon juice
• Olive oil
• Salt

Poached pears

• Beurre Bosc pears
• Shiraz
  
• Caster sugar
• Star Anise
• Shiraz sauce
• Marscapone

Shiraz sauce was just the poaching liquor reduced to syrup consistency.

Time to prepare: About 2 hours
Cost of ingredients: About $40
Number of serves: 8 (lasagna) 3 (pears)
Recipe inspiration: The lasagna needs no inspiration, the pears originally came from an issue of gourmet traveller.