Boxcar Kitchen

With only one vegatable holding out, this is pretty close to perfection. I have this 'thing' about 5 vegetables a day. I know I'm not the only person on the planet that does. I mean, even Paris' mayor's office has billboards all around the city reminding us all to eat 5 a day. The thing that separates me from everybody else, well one thing that separates me from everybody else is how much I like to talk about it and just how excited I can get. I get such a thrill trying to squeeze all five into one recipe and I'm not just talking regular old vegetarian style. I like to sneak the veggies in there so that my husband can't even detect them and then, BAM!!! I lay it on 'im.

This veggie lasagna is actually one of his favorites. The problem is that I find it physically impossible to make a small lasagna for two people. I've tried but it just doesn't happen and we end up turning into Garfield. Needless to say, all our dinner guests have had my vegetable lasagna at least once.

Layers of ricotta/parmesean/asagio/fresh spinach are interposed between layers of satuéed zucchini and onions and this time I added a layer of oven roasted yellow peppers which really set up nicely. Sometimes I make my own sauce but this time, since time was short I 'doctored' up a few jars with crushed canned tomatos, garlic and basil from my window garden.

We still had leftovers but just enough for one more night and a sliver for breakfast.