Pasta Lasagna: O L Vegetarian 05 by Recipe Cottage

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	O L Vegetarian 05

		Vegetarian Lasagna I just made the most delicious lasagna and I want to post it before I forget what I did. I made it up as I went along, so the directions are going to be a bit rambling; bear with me. Couple caveats: I don't salt at all, and we are garlic freaks so I use a ton of garlic. Feel free to adjust to your liking. For the sauce: in a food processor, I whirled together a can of whole tomatoes and a very ripe fresh tomato, but not so long that there were still chunks of tomatoes left. To this in a saucepan, I added a small can of tomato sauce, a small can of paste. Some leftover white wine, about half a cup, a small carrot sliced, about half a teaspoon crushed red pepper, about 1 tablespoon garlic powder and about a teaspoon cinnamon. In a saute pan, I put a little butter and a little oil, a tablespoon of each? (wanted olive oil but couldn't find any in my cabinet). Added 1/2 a chopped onion, 1 chopped eggplant, about 1/2 pound chopped brown mushrooms. The eggplant soaks up the oil and I didn't want to add more, so I kept turning the heat down. After a while I added 1 cup shredded cabbage and an entire bulb of garlic, very coarsely chopped (I add the garlic later so it doesn't cook down so much that the flavour remains distinct). Also about a teaspoon each of basil and majoram. I charred a red bell pepper, peeled it, chopped it and put it in the sauce. Cooked a pkg of lasagna noodles not quite done, they were very al dente (there were 11). Back in the food processor, I whirred a small carton of low fat ricotta, about 2/3s of a small carton of lowfat cottage cheese and 2 eggs (would have added some parsley to this, but didn't have any). Shredded about 3/4 pound of jack cheese (I'm not overly fond of mozzerella). I cooked the sauce fairly thick cause I knew the veggies would add extra water. Layering in a 9 x 13 cake pan: A thin layer sauce layer noodles half the ricotta mixture half the eggplant mixture 2 handfuls fresh spinach leaves another thin later of sauce more noodles other half of ricotta other half of eggplant oops, realized I'd forgotten jack cheese in first layer, added a handful here 2 more handfuls spinach leaves another thin layer sauce. Top off with remaining sauce, remaining jack cheese. After assembling, I realized I forgot to add coasely ground peppercorns (didn't have any parmesan). Baked at 350 till bubbly. Not bad.