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You<\/strong>: Hey Matt, how’s your new plan of running every day to get out of your rut going?<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>:\u00a0 Funny you should ask, I was just going to mention that on my blog today!\u00a0 It’s going really well.\u00a0 So well that I went to bed at midnight last night and still managed to get up with Erin at 5:30 and not go back to sleep.<\/p>\n

You<\/strong>: And what about that cooking rut?\u00a0 I haven’t seen much good food on your blog recently…<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: Again, perfect timing.\u00a0 I decided today that I was going to throw the health food out the window and make something really bad, but really good, to make cooking fun again!<\/p>\n

You<\/strong>: Ok, can you just tell me about it in a normal post instead of this weird Q&A format where you make up questions you want to answer?<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: Sure.<\/p>\n

Butternut Squash Lasagna<\/h2>\n

So what is it that I made?\u00a0 (That’s the last question, I promise.)\u00a0 Butternut squash lasagna!\u00a0 Last week I had an extra butternut squash lying around — really — and I came across a Giada de Laurentiis recipe for butternut squash lasagna<\/a>.\u00a0 It looked really good but it was loaded with cheese and whole milk, so I passed.\u00a0 I’ve actually been tending toward vegan meals recently, noticing that I feel better, especially while running, when I don’t eat much dairy.<\/p>\n

\"Butternut<\/p>\n

But desperate times call for desperate measures.\u00a0 As healthy as all the vegan, poor person food<\/a> I’ve been eating is, it’s just not very exciting.\u00a0 And it never seems worthy of being blogged about.\u00a0 So today I decided to make Giada’s lasagna.<\/p>\n

As I do every time I write about Giada, like when I made her delicious veggie pasta bake<\/a>, I must make the obligatory “Giada scares me because her head is big and weird-shaped and she says things with funny accents” comment.\u00a0 So there that is.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the lasagna turned out pretty good.\u00a0 When Erin and I were meat-eaters, we used to make this fabulous lasagna entirely from scratch.\u00a0 All-day simmered meat (turkey, eventually), homemade pasta noodles, and a creamy bechamel sauce.<\/p>\n

This butternut lasagna is made with a bechamel, but by comparison to the lasagna we used to make, it paled a bit.\u00a0 Some of the bechamel gets blended with basil, which is kind of cool, until it all gets mixed together in a strange green color.<\/p>\n

\"Bechamel<\/p>\n

But it was a nice change of pace, at the very least.\u00a0 And it has amaretti cookies in it (though I couldn’t find them and just used almond cookies)!\u00a0 And hopefully, it’s a start to getting out of this cooking rut and putting a little more effort into choosing exciting meals.<\/p>\n

And now I’m off to do my weekly Thursday night trail run.\u00a0 In the complete dark, thanks to daylight savings time.\u00a0 And then drinking with a little bit of eating afterward.\u00a0 These people bring beer in their trunks to drink in the parking lot as soon as we’re done.\u00a0 It’s awesome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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