Lasagna in a Llanera

I've been craving for lasagna since the start of the week. So last Monday, I bought a slice of mozarella cheese.  But my mother kept on cooking nice dinner everyday so my plan of making lasagna has been pushed back until Thursday night.

Our oven at home is a tiny oven toaster, just enough for two slices of bread.  So I searched online about the possibility of baking lasagna using that tiny appliance.  And the results are affirmative.  I also searched if the microwave can also be an alternative. And again, it was positive.

So last night, I bought the ingredients at FairPrice finest (love that grocery :)).  Fresh ground beef, lasgna noodles, zucchini, bolognese sauce, capsicum and egg.  I was looking for ricotta cheese but I cant find any.  I also bought a tiny baking dish hoping that it will fit into our tiny oven toaster but it didnt.  I was excited pa naman.  So I thought of just using the microwave instead of the oven toaster.  But the paper pasted on the baking dish advises against using the dish in a microwave. Bummer.

Buti na lang, we had a llanera which saved the day! As what they say, necessity is the mother of all inventions (or something like that).  So the llanera that is most usually known for leche flan was reinvented as a baking dish for my lasagna.

Lasagna in a Llanera

It was my first time to cook lasagna and I was glad it turned out well :) We partnered it with boiled mixed vegetable, fresh romaine lettuce (no dressing) and a bottle of white wine.

Monotony

It's Friday, the end of another work week. 

What have I done at work?  Nothing extraordinary. I've been matching some cases for our projects for weeks now.  Initially, my task was to match 8,000 cases of records but it climbed up to 14,000 due to changes in work assignment.  I use a formula to match the cases but I found out that our data is not that clean so I end up matching a number of cases manually.

It's not the most exciting task there is.  But it needs to be done.  And I need to do it for the project to go on.  And that is what I keep on telling myself whenever I feel bored.  To keep on moving.  The same thing with life.  Sometimes if we focus on the everyday tasks and rituals, the monotony is magnified.  But if you look at the bigger picture, it's a different story.   Or even if you can't see the bigger picture, trust that it will be beautiful and it will be.