Since Emily is away and the dogs are slowly driving me insane, I decided to invite some friends over for dinner. I requested that they either reply confirming their attendance, or decline and propose a menu for those who do attend. Inspired by the culinary stooges at epicmealtime.com Matt requested that Ben, Girish and myself make a fast food lasagna.

Challenge accepted.

Fast Food Lasagna

Prepare thyself...

Ingredients:

1 Baconator
1 Teen burger
1 pack of onion rings
1 pack of bacon
1 can of tomato sauce
2 cups of grated mozzarella
1 cup of mushrooms
1/2 an onion
1/2 cup of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey
1/4 stick of butter

Directions:

1. To begin, prepare the following:
1. Spread bacon out on a cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees until cooked
2. Dice onion, slice mushrooms and saute both with butter in a frying pan until golden brown
3. Add Jack Daniel's and tomato sauce to a saucepan and cook over medium heat until warmed
2. Begin by laying both burgers side by side in a bread pan
3. Cover burgers in a layer of bacon
4. Spread half of the Jack Daniel's tomato sauce over the bacon
5. Add sauteed onions and mushrooms over the sauce
6. Sprinkle half the cheese over the onions and mushrooms
7. Add another layer of bacon
8. Spread remaining Jack Daniel's tomato sauce over bacon
9. Lay onion rings on sauce
10. Cover onion rings with remaining cheese
11. Bake in oven at 350 degrees for twenty minutes until cheese begins to brown

Serves four

Thoughts and Reviews

Everyone's expectations of this meal were pretty low. As a strange coincidence, only those who could not attend expressed any enthusiasm in the menu choice. Initially it was difficult to keep morale high enough to even commence cooking.

Once we started cooking I was amazed by how good it smelled. The combination of smells from frying onions, mushrooms and bacon all at the same time is amazing and needs to be experienced. The lasagna continued to smell good while baking wafting out smells of melted cheese and onion rings.

The lasagna had reasonably good visual appear when it came out of the oven. The contrasting colours and textures of the cheese and onion rings were very enticing. When sliced the lasagna actually looked sort of like a lasagna with many different layers separated by sauce.

Now admittedly, the taste did leave something to be desired. It wasn't bad, in fact far from it, it was just that the entire lasagna tasted like a cheeseburger. Somehow the flavour of the fast food had managed to permeate the entire dish. In my opinion some distinction in the flavours would have been appreciated.

Overall the consensus around the table was that it was certainly edible, no one would become a vegetarian on account of this recipe, and we wouldn't eat it again.