Asparagus Lasagna

For dinner with D's family on Friday, I made asparagus lasagna with homemade noodles, in individual ramekins. I wish I had taken a picture of R making the noodles with me. She loves to crank the handle on the pasta roller.

Salad; broccoli rabe, black pepper & parmesan crostini; and soup made from the tomatoes from our garden that I canned this summer. It's topped with Greek yogurt, a sprinkle of smoked paprika, microgreens from the windowsill, and cheese toasts. Then there is the Extra-Fancy screw-top sparkling juice. I am the only champagne drinker, or I would have splurged.

And baked lemon custard for dessert, with raspberries and a geranium blossom. This custard bakes creamy on the bottom, but cakelike on the top. I couldn't figure it out until D pointed out that it bakes with a water bath that goes 3/4 of the way up the ramekins, and the cake texture starts where the water bath leaves off.

This picture is small because it's a screen grab from the video camera. The girls went into the kitchen after dinner with their juice boxes and told knock-knock jokes to each other. Here's an example of one of R's knock-knock jokes: "Knock knock. Who's there. Water bottle. Water bottle who? Charlie! Bad dog! Spray you with the water bottle!" (water squirting noises.) Oh dear. Poor Charlie, but it does work to stop him from barking at the fence and digging in the garden.