Recipe: Spinach and Ricotta Lasagna

Spinach and Ricotta Lasagna

Bon Appetit Magazine, Mar 2023
5 stars

A delicious and easy meatless lasagna recipe. Loved this so much! It tastes rich because of the heavy cream and cream cheese. FYI - It's so interesting how this lasagna doesn't use any mozzarella, and it doesn't need it!

Ingredients: lasagna noodles, 28 oz can of whole peeled tomatoes, frozen spinach, whole-milk ricotta, cream cheese, heavy cream,  Parmesan, garlic, extra-virgin olive oil, red pepper flakes, Kosher salt, ground pepper

Tips:

• The grocery store was out of frozen spinach so we cooked down some fresh spinach
• Added in basil and oregano
• The ingredients/contents filled up our Pyrex dish completely so don't add anything to this dish!
• Place the Pyrex on a sheet tray as it almost bubbled over
• It looks watery but the noodles will soak up the liquid
• Had to bake it for an hour, not 45 min.

Recipe: Sheet-Pan Orange Tofu and Broccoli

Sheet-Pan Orange Tofu and Broccoli

Bon Appetit Magazine, Feb 2023, p. 49

Interesting

Overall this dish was fine. I didn't rate any stars because of the different components. If we make this dish again:

• Tofu: We'd never cooked tofu like this before -- baking tofu with cornstarch on it to make it seem like it was fried tofu. Maybe there was too much cornstarch because not all of it browned. If we make this again, we need to double the recipe.
• Broccoli: Eh, not the best roasted broccoli recipe as it was boring and not enough. I would make another version of broccoli (even steam it) and make double.
• Sauce: Delicious -- tangy and spicy and tasted like a bit healthier version than orange chicken sauce. Make 1/2 next time and note that it's gloopy after putting it in the fridge.

Ingredients: tofu, broccoli, orange, scallions, garlic, soy sauce, honey, unseasoned rice vinegar, sriracha, sesame oil, cornstarch, extra-virgin olive oil, Kosher salt, pepper; serve with rice and toasted sesame seeds