Article: LAYERS OF MEMORY DINING CRITIC RACKS HIS NOODLE FOR CHILDHOOD LASAGNA RECIPE.(Home Front)

Byline: John Lehndorff News Dining Critic

The first dish I ever cooked by myself was lasagna. I was 13 years old and sitting in the kitchen of our family home in Massachusetts. I was nagging my mother to make lasagna, one of my favorite childhood foods. She said: ``Why don't you make it yourself? Just follow the recipe on the back of the Prince Lasagna box.''

Yikes! I'd helped her make lasagna before, but I'd never done it by myself. In fact, I'd never cooked any written recipe from scratch all by my lonesome. ``How hard could it be?'' I thought. As it turned out, it wasn't hard, but it was a fair amount of work as I cooked the meat, made the sauce, ...

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