The Epic Lasagna Tower

This term, my roommates and I decided that we were going to have roommate dinner every Sunday. A few weeks ago, it was my turn for main-dish. I found this recipe for a Lasagna tower on http://www.stumbleupon.com/ (which if you don't know about...beware. It's a bigger time waster than Facebook.

ANYWAY

Here are pictures and my own personal commentary :)
This first part was so hard...I cooked the noodles and then I had to  put them in a bowl in this spiral pattern in order to form a noodle crust...it was harder than the recipe made it look...way harder

 So this next part was also quite the adventure...The recipe told me to chop the onions...well I hate chopping onions, so I put them in the bgz-bgz (that's the magic bullet..or the sound it makes) but, it pureed them, instead of chopping them. when I opened the lid, my eyes burned...so don't do that. But DO chop the onions and then saute them with garlic and a bit of olive oil.

 

 Next, combine some Italian seasoning with cottage or ricotta cheese and mozzarella cheese.

 then, add some chopped celery, green peppers, yellow squash and zucchini to the garlic and onions.

 Then mix up some alfredo sauce with cream, parmesan cheese and nutmeg...oh and don't forget the butter!

 Then mix up some red sauce to add some variety to your layers.

 It is time to start assembling :)

 layer one :red sauce and cottage cheese mix

layer two: veggie mixture and red sauce

 Layer three: Spinach and alfredo

 continue layering and then fold excess noodles over like so:

Then bake at 350* for one hour when finished, remove and admire like this:

Then comes the fun part...time to FLIP! 

This was really nerve racking...

BUT, though the presentation wasn't a perfect ten, it tasted so good! 

This was definitely a recipe I would try again...but not anytime soon...it was a lot of work!