While the pasta rested on trays laid on her clothes dryer, she went for a siesta.
Oblivious to the bowl of day-old pasta resting among the exposed wires of his home-built computer, 16-year-old Laurie Pycroft, a floppy-haired sixth form dropout from Swindon, flicks between three screens to keep up with his emails, blog and website.
⁶ Again it is important to allow the pasta to rest in the fridge for 20 minutes after working it through the pasta machine.
And boy does she like what she sees: a shopping bag bursting with tinned beans, pasta and the rest: 25 items, for a total of £6.25.
Repeat two more layers, and then top the last layer of pasta with the rest of the béchamel, and the remaining parmesan.
Uno's Chicago Grill, for example, serves deep-dish pizza and a couple varieties of pasta, but the rest of its menu is far from Italian so it didn't make the cut.
Now, cutting the filler (like pasta) and respecting the rest of the plate should be easy.
Rip 150g mozzarella into small pieces, tuck half into the pasta and lay the rest on top.
Make a whole packet and enjoy some fresh as a substitute for your usual mashed potatoes, rice or pasta, then leave the rest to cool into a firm block.
When Daisy, Lucy's eldest, went off to university, Rose gave her a set of heavy-based saucepans, all the better that she might make a sofrito (not for a Gray grandchild the tuna fish pasta bake that the rest of us lived on).
