Someone left the bougainvillea on all night.
Michael Dickman has the most wonderfully strange end of summer poem “Lakes Rivers Streams” with lines jumbled together like berserk frayed edges of a beach blanket.
I think the day knows exactly what’s its doing…
The good news is ferns…
Meanwhile inside a belly button…
Meanwhile real sunlight sneaks up the wall somewhere between/ butterfly yellow and butterfly brown…
I picked up everything in the house and put them all back down just/ to the left of themselves.
It is a 40-page poem that wanders like the idle days of summer. And it makes me feel so glad to be at the end of it [the poem and summer]. Finally time for some fall food. Let’s start with a lasagna.
Green Lasagna
16 oz labneh cheese
1/2 c fresh basil, sliced into ribbons
1 t garlic salt
1 t Penzeys Pasta Sprinkle
1 egg
1 T olive oil
2 c onions, chopped
6 cloves garlic, minced
2 c fresh spinach
One box of uncooked green lentil lasagna from Explore Cuisine
32 oz of marinara sauce
2 cups (or more) of shredded mozzarella cheese
Garnish: additional basil cut into ribbons, ½ cup Pereg whole wheat bread crumbs with 2 TB olive oil and 1 TB pasta sprinkle
In a medium bowl combine cheese, basil, parsley, garlic salt, pasta sprinkle and egg. Mix together and set aside.
In a skillet over medium heat, warm the oil. Saute the onions until they soften and they are starting to shrink. Add in spinach to wilt.
Combine spinach mixture and cheese mixture.
Using a 9X13 baking dish pour 1/3 of the tomato sauce into the bottom.
Add half the uncooked noodles, top that with 1/2 the mixture and 2/3 c of cheese. Repeat. You will end with a third layer of sauce, and top with mozzarella cheese. I love to put bread crumbs on everything—so I highly recommend this as garnish.
Cover casserole dish with foil. Bake at 400 degrees F for 45 minutes.
Remove the foil after 35 minutes.
Garnish with remaining/additional cheese and basil.
Let sit and rest for 15 minutes before cutting into squares.
In the spirit of all things green, I’ve been sampling some health products lately—one a deodorant that is organic and without aluminum by Type A. Smells great! Not quite New Orleans’s strength, ahem, but at least the rainforest had a nice odor.
Also, I enjoyed an antimicrobial toothbrush by Dr. Plotka. I’m not much of a toothbrush connoisseur, that would be my father’s department. But it got the job done.
