Sicilian Chocolate Lasagna From: http://fxcuisine.com/default.asp?Display=138 2008-02-07 Chris Shenton FXcuisine.com has interesting recipes and beautiful photos, and some rather intriguingly authentic dishes. This one was less structured than most but a lot of fun. We made the pasta, as we always do. We used some ground beef because we had it, but we normally grind chuck ourselves. I chopped the pork by hand and it came out a bit more coarse than the factory-ground beef -- not an unpleasant texture, a bit rustic. We used Lindt 80%+ cocao chocolate and it was a bit too fragrant and intense. For this recipe, I'm cutting it back from the original: I think the chocolate should fly under the radar of the nose and add complexity. I added a bit more wine and tomatoes as it was cooking to get the consistency right -- you don't want it too stiff but also don't want it too runny. 2 White/Yellow Onions, chopped Olive Oil 12 ounces Ground Beef 12 ounces Ground Pork 8 ounces Red Wine 2 cup Tomato puree (garden tomatoes chopped fine) 15 grams Dark Chocolate 1 stick Cinnamon Saute Onions in Oil until softened. Add ground Meat and saute over high to brown; don't crowd or it will steam. Deglaze pan with Wine. Add Tomato and Chocolate and let melt; add Cinnamon. Cover and simmer over very low heat for 40 minutes or more. While cooking, roll out pasta (eggs, flour, water, maybe a bit of oil). I use a hand-cranked Atlas machine and cut each 5-inch wide sheet into squares. When the sauce is almost done, drop the sheets, 2-3 at a time, into boiling salted water. Remove with a spider in about a minute with when they're cooked (draining in a collander will break them). Layer sauce, pasta, sauce, ... for each plate. Garnish with grated Parmesan if desired.