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Pumpkin Lasagne ai Quattro Formaggi
Pumpkin Lasagna with Four Cheeses
This one needs a Family Tree. So here goes. I have been a fan of Domenica Marchetti for quite some time. Lucky me, I won a copy of her newest book, The Glorious Pasta of Italy from Paula Yoo of Write Like You Mean It. (Great name, Paula. Great site.) I had just begun to give the book some serious reading when David Leite of Leite’s Culinaria included Domenica’s recipe for Pumpkin Lasagne in his Weekly Update. (If you do not already subscribe, sign up for a wealth of information.) And as if I needed any more convincing, Kathy included the recipe in her Food Lover’s Odyssey (another site not to be missed) Top 10 Italian Recipes from Around the Web. See what I mean about the Family Tree?
I had been looking for something different for a first course for Thanksgiving when the Pumpkin Lasagne recipe caught my eye. Lasagna, why not? What surprised me was that the pumpkin puree is in the pasta, not between the layers. By the way – don’t be thrown by lasagne ending with an “e”. The name of this recipe refers to the multiple sheets of pasta known individually as lasagna. The final “a” of Italian feminine nouns changes to “e” in the plural. Mystery solved. Read the remainder of this entry »