What you see is Cormac’s first lasagne, one of the highlights of his recent cookery course. Cormac, who flew in from Dublin, was determined to show his beloved Lotte that he could shine in the kitchen. So Lotte’s mum bought him a cookery course for his birthday, and asked me to deliver it. 
We had two three hour sessions, an afternoon leading to dinner and the next morning leading to lunch. Lasagne was the star of lunch, preceded by leek custards – sformati – with red pepper sauce and followed by pears baked with marsala, vanilla and cinnamon. Dinner was a pea, spring onion and bacon risotto, followed by chicken involtini – you saw the recipe for this here last week – with a stunning dessert: panna cotta with raspberry sauce.
Recipes and more photos follow.
I made this yesterday and it was wonderful. I used regular sugar, but everything else as you suggested. It was really spicy but this dish would have been too bland without it!! Next time I might use a little less than the 2 T of Thai Garlic Chili that I used this time (but not a lot less). Thanks for the great recipe.
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