May 24, 2010
May 23, 2010
Bigger, Better, Cheesier: The Hundred-Layer Lasagne
Bigger, Better, Cheesier: The Hundred-Layer Lasagne
Here's something to try at home: Chef Mark Ladner's hundred-layer lasagne, served on a special menu at his New York restaurant Del Posto. Can you even imagine a hundred-layer lasagna? It's not exactly simple...
Ladner says in this interview with New York Magazine that his over-the-top, not-your-nonna's lasagne includes "50 practically transparent sheets of handmade pasta, alternating with 50 layers of sauce (Bolognese, besciamella, and marinara)." Skewers hold it together while it cools and sets and you need a "special spatula" to serve it.
This is a little beyond our own simple 10-layer lasagna. Maybe something to attempt for a special occasion? We don't know if we have the stamina, but it does make us curious about 20-layer or even 30-layer lasagne. What do you think?
• Read more: Behind the Menu: Deconstructing the Hundred-Layer Lasagne
Related: How To Make Lasagna
I'm one for lasagna but 100 layers of it?! ILL DIE HAPPY
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“They’re cool and they know it.” Alexander Martinez
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Feed Your Kids to a Shark-Shaped Sleeping Bag
Photo via Patch Together
For anyone who's ever wished they could experience the joy and comfort of being eaten by a stuffed shark, one designer has created a menacing-looking sleeping bag that will make short work of the sandman. Dubbed the ChumBuddy, the 7 foot long stuffed killing-machine is sure to delight all who become ensnared in the shark's plush, gapping mouth, or who nestle in its soft, fleece bowels. Just imagine the joy of tucking your child in the shark's throat each and every night while reading them a bedtime story--Jaws the novel, perhaps?
While the ChumBuddy seems to be perpetuating the man-eating shark stereotype, the designer, Kendra Phillips, says it was made to make the sleek, aquatic killer more kid-friendly.
It's a sleeping bag! It's a stuffed toy! IT'S A SHARK! In an effort to make sharks (a very misunderstood animal that also happens to be one of my favorites) more cuddly, I designed and produced a prototype for the ChumBuddy.There is, of course, nothing funny about shark attacks, but that's not to say the creatures couldn't benefit from a little softening of their image--after all, humans pose a far greater threat to sharks than they do to us, and some species are threatened by cultural practices. The ChumBuddy might actually be a good way to help put to rest the shark's bad rap, which sadly may diminish, to some, the urgency of protecting them.
And in the end, it would far better to wake up inside the belly of a stuffed shark than to world without the real thing.
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May 2, 2010
Oh you know, just hunting dinosaurs.
My lovely Jona and I decided to go check out the dinosaur exhibit a few weeks ago. You see, we though that the whole museum would be dedicated to just the dinosaurs for the time being....wrong. It was cold, windy and the line was sooo damn long. Luckily I had my hunny to keep me warm! Anywhow, it was $3 extra just to see the dinosaurs. Jona was outraged. There was a simple side room where the dinos were........thats it. It took maybe, oh I dunno, 20 minutes to check it all out.LAME.
Jona and I were even up all night making him a totally called for shirt just for the occasion. Yes, D is indeed for dinosaurs. It was a fun weekend :)
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