Saturday 31 December 2011

Glasgow Lasagne

a New Year's freebie to all you jaded metropolitan foodies out there....'glasgow lasagne', eaten once only in 1995, with much delight, cooked by my mate from partick (a great painter/artist called iain thompson) on a 3 day incursion into sassenach territory - to his pleasant surprise, skagen court/school hill area of bolton was a familiar and welcoming milieu. all washed down with simultaneous cans of irn bru and spesh, a maverick two-drink gambit which i thought showed commitment and a certain celtic panache. it's a £7 din-dins for two, and a cultural hyperlink into the bargain.

method:
in a pyrex dish (almost free of gloss paint) place layers of toasted sliced bread (buttered) covered with a layer of cold baked beans, cover with grated cheese (cheddar). then another layer of toast (also buttered), more beans, more grated cheese. repeat one more time for a proper triple decker flat-warmer. Cook in oven till melty and bubbly. apply brown sauce. eat. then oot to 'the borough' for lots of holts and pool/darts discussions of pressing matters of the day with assorted ne'er-do-wells, shirkers and claimants.

posh versions may be available and 'better' in some specific ways but...would not be the same, on a metaphysical level. food memories - only alzheimers can take them away...

HNY and may the road rise to meet you

x

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