{"id":125,"date":"2008-06-29T22:40:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T21:40:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-03-13T10:43:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T09:43:39","slug":"mikes-veggie-lasagne-and-mikes-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/mikes-veggie-lasagne-and-mikes-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike&#8217;s Veggie Lasagne and Mike&#8217;s Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Veggie Lasagne<\/h3>\n<p>Sweat plenty of garlic and onions add tomatoes and a handful of fresh herbs add water if necessary and some finely chopped vegetables. Whatever you have to hand. Simmer till tender.<\/p>\n<p>Make a bechamel sauce. Adding ground bay leaf, mace and nutmeg&#8212;&#8211;be careful with the nutmeg. When you make the bechamel sauce do not overdo the mace nutmeg and bay, you do need to flavour it but can easily overpower it. As a guide I make 1 litre of sauce and in total put less than a teaspoon full of the 3 spices combined.<\/p>\n<p>Cook some spinach.<\/p>\n<p>Assemble the lasagna using lasagna verdi and using feta and\/or cottage cheese and the tomato and bechamel sauce and spinach.<\/p>\n<p>Cook about 15mins so the lasagna is still al dent.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you like it.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry not very specific on quantities but it depends how hungry, how many folk etc.<\/p>\n<p>Mike.<\/p>\n<h3>Mikes Jam<\/h3>\n<p>I made about 100 jars of jam earlier this year and noticed that strawberry jam was difficult to set requiring lemon juice or tartaric acid or extra pectin to aid setting. I also noticed blackcurrant jam had a tendency to set too easily requiring extra water. The solution was obvious<\/p>\n<p>2lb strawberries<br \/>\n2lb blackcurrants<br \/>\n4lb sugar<\/p>\n<p>NO ADDITIVES!!<\/p>\n<p>Makes fantastic jam, highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Veggie Lasagne Sweat plenty of garlic and onions add tomatoes and a handful of fresh herbs add water if necessary and some finely chopped vegetables. Whatever you have to hand. Simmer till tender. Make a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/mikes-veggie-lasagne-and-mikes-jam\/\" title=\"Mike&#8217;s Veggie Lasagne and Mike&#8217;s Jam\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[227,228],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-lasagne","tag-veggie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/2277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}