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Accidentally made a massive lasagne and feel panicky

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BeardofHagrid · 08/04/2024 18:01

As title, really.

I made a vegetable lasagne this afternoon and it’s turned out much bigger than intended, with an estimated weight of around two stone.

Albeit very nice, it is rather rich for my taste, using cream cheese in lieu of béchamel, not to mention the secret layer of fresh basil leaves. It’s only me to eat it and I don’t think I can face it for some time after one more serving tomorrow. Freezer is full. Neighbours all vegan.

The huge lasagne is cooling off in my now extinguished oven while tough decisions are made. Feeling a bit hot and panicky about it.

What do?

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heathspeedwell · 09/04/2024 18:18

@soupfiend I'm with you all the way!

heathspeedwell · 09/04/2024 18:17

@Queencam I totally understand that it sounds odd, but you just spoon cottage cheese straight from the pot onto the layer of pasta then put your choice of wet filling onto the next layer. It doesn't have to be posh cottage cheese. Once its cooked it is just a lovely, light gooey, creamy layer.

soupfiend · 09/04/2024 18:05

Differentstarts · 09/04/2024 08:30

Wrong, cottage cheese is rank and don't even get me started on the layer of basil leaves. Bechemel for the win 🏆

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Right you, outside!

girlmeetsboy · 09/04/2024 17:57

I do this all the time with lasagne albeit meat based, I spend so much time griddling aubergine layers and making the bechemel sauce with nutmeg etc from scratch that everyone in the house sighs, DH bought me a smaller Pyrex but still the cycle continues, I cannot make it any smaller, im the same with chilli! End up eating it for 3 days and doing food parcels for the older dc's which I hope they don't just bin. Funnily enough I've just started a moussaka.....

ProncessDiana · 09/04/2024 17:47

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Mylifesadrama · 09/04/2024 17:45

Give a local charity a call. The homeless shelter, put it on Facebook. Someone will really appreciate it.

BeachBeerBbq · 09/04/2024 17:43

There is never too much gulas

Emotionalsupportviper · 09/04/2024 17:34

0sm0nthus · 08/04/2024 23:24

I have never attempted to make a lasagna, it always looked much too complicated for my liking. I cant fathom how anyone can make one accidentally. 🤯

What? - You've never tripped up in the kitchen as you go to put away three bags of shopping, knocked a cast iron dish off the bench as you fell helplessly forward, and accidentally made a lasagne?

Thought everybody had done this at least once.

In fact, I hade to stop buying all of the ingredients at once because we were getting fed up with it. I usually accidentally make goulash now <thinks: . . . must stop buying paprika . . . 🤔>

Emotionalsupportviper · 09/04/2024 17:28

QS90 · 08/04/2024 21:44

No need to panic! In 50 years no-one will remember the 2 stone lasagne 😂The world will keep spinning.

I think OP will - she'll still be eating it.

hurklebum · 09/04/2024 08:54

We had the great Rice Fiasco of 1996.

BeachBeerBbq · 09/04/2024 08:48

I feel you. Once i made 20 portions of soup....

Tel12 · 09/04/2024 08:33

I have just had lasagna for 3 days straight. Binned the rest.

Differentstarts · 09/04/2024 08:30

soupfiend · 09/04/2024 07:01

Wrong, you wouldnt say that about ricotta. Ricotta and cottage cheese are quite similar when you buy the right cottage cheese. The consistency differs of course, but Longley Farm full fat cottage cheese is like eating cream or marscapone or ricotta. Gorgeous.

I dont like bechemel, its 'nothing'.

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Wrong, cottage cheese is rank and don't even get me started on the layer of basil leaves. Bechemel for the win 🏆

Bjorkdidit · 09/04/2024 07:52

Oh the sadness that is eating cottage cheese that isn't made by Longley Farm.

soupfiend · 09/04/2024 07:01

OutOfTheHouse · 08/04/2024 23:07

You topped a lasagna with cottage cheese? What is wrong with you? Cottage cheese has no place existing outside of a miserable 80s diet.

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Wrong, you wouldnt say that about ricotta. Ricotta and cottage cheese are quite similar when you buy the right cottage cheese. The consistency differs of course, but Longley Farm full fat cottage cheese is like eating cream or marscapone or ricotta. Gorgeous.

I dont like bechemel, its 'nothing'.

Bjorkdidit · 09/04/2024 04:23

Sendme2Greece · 08/04/2024 22:44

This is my favourite game...I just didn't know it had a name 😂 very apt, though.

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You've not completed freezer tetris until you've taken all the ice creams and pizzas out of their boxes, moved the ice cubes from the tray to a sealy bag and reshaped the bags of frozen chips and vegetables.

It's amazing how much room can be found in an apparently full freezer if you really put your mind to it.

But I know how the OP feels. I got a TGTG bag yesterday and was saddened to see that none of it was suitable for freezing so will need to be eaten today.

Jk8 · 09/04/2024 03:41

Offer it up free for anyone on local Facebook?

(Was going to say send it too me but thne realised it was veggie not meat)

Northernsouloldies · 09/04/2024 00:30

PlasticOno · 08/04/2024 23:51

Perhaps it attacked her.

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She maybe fell in it and drowned.😋

Annielou67 · 09/04/2024 00:16

Put it on Olio.

QS90 · 08/04/2024 23:54

No, she invited the non-vegans a street across over. They're collectively six bottles in now, and the police have been called out since it got too raucous.

We'll get an update from the drunk-tank in the early hours.

PlasticOno · 08/04/2024 23:51

Dartmoorcheffy · 08/04/2024 23:47

I'm worried the OP has sunken into a food coma after trying to eat all her lasagne, as she's not been back.

Perhaps it attacked her.

Dartmoorcheffy · 08/04/2024 23:47

I'm worried the OP has sunken into a food coma after trying to eat all her lasagne, as she's not been back.

0sm0nthus · 08/04/2024 23:24

I have never attempted to make a lasagna, it always looked much too complicated for my liking. I cant fathom how anyone can make one accidentally. 🤯

KnickerlessParsons · 08/04/2024 23:18

Two stone?? 😲

Fizbosshoes · 08/04/2024 23:12

Merryoldgoat · 08/04/2024 18:47

No - pony!

How funny - I’ve used that for 30-odd years

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Oh I read it as poncey! 😂

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