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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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TisTheDarnSeason · 08/04/2024 18:50

Hoplolly · 08/04/2024 18:47

How can a lasagne make you panicky?

I swear sometimes this place just feels like one long Viz Mr Logic comic strip...

It's humour. You know, lighthearted?

mathanxiety · 08/04/2024 18:50

Newbutoldfather · 08/04/2024 18:14

Is this an in joke?!

2 stone, 28 lbs, 12.7kgs? What oven would take that? How did you take it out of the oven?

Not buying it, sorry….

Exaggeration there was for literary effect, not meant literally.

Ionacat · 08/04/2024 18:49

I think you can give away portions on the Olio app. Might be worth giving it a go?

maudelovesharold · 08/04/2024 18:49

you can't accidentally over make a lasagne and a very odd reaction if somehow you weren't aware of how many ingredients you were using

Maybe op misread ‘serves 14’ as ‘4’.

Hope you’re serving a massive salad with your massive lasagne, op!

quizzys · 08/04/2024 18:48

You need to have a civilised midweek party. You know, the schoolnight ones where everyone SAYS they will drink fizzy water and somehow end up pissed as farts, and then the lasagne will be gone, gone forever and everyone will remember you for years. With gratitude since they didn't have to cook anything themselves on a Tuesday night.

Orangexhest · 08/04/2024 18:48

MooQuackNeigh · 08/04/2024 18:19

I was going to say this. Do you mean 2kg? My daughter weighs 2stone and I can barely lift her!

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This whole post is surely a piss take

NeverEnoughPants · 08/04/2024 18:47

Merryoldgoat · 08/04/2024 18:45

@NeverEnoughPants

’pony’ is rhyming slang for ‘crap’ - pony and trap

so I’m having salmon and asparagus gratin which is crap in comparison to a yummy lasagne

Ah ok. I've never heard that.

Merryoldgoat · 08/04/2024 18:47

Evenstar · 08/04/2024 18:44

@NeverEnoughPants I think it was meant to be poxy

No - pony!

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

Hoplolly · 08/04/2024 18:47

How can a lasagne make you panicky?

NeverDropYourMooncup · 08/04/2024 18:45

You're never more than six foot away from a County Level 6'4" teenaged boy with hollow legs in MNLand, so listen for the rumbling sounds of one returning from rugby training down the close. It'll do him for a pre-dinner snack.

Merryoldgoat · 08/04/2024 18:45

@NeverEnoughPants

’pony’ is rhyming slang for ‘crap’ - pony and trap

so I’m having salmon and asparagus gratin which is crap in comparison to a yummy lasagne

Evenstar · 08/04/2024 18:44

@NeverEnoughPants I think it was meant to be poxy

Shepadoodle · 08/04/2024 18:43

Is it better than everything else in your freezer? If faced with getting rid of a bag of veg or a fully cooked lasagne I'd choose the lasagne. I've only recently started batch cooking and one of my dishes is a veg lasagne. It tastes like hours or effort in minimal time when I reheat it. I can't believe I used to eat ready meals 🙈

NeverEnoughPants · 08/04/2024 18:43

Merryoldgoat · 08/04/2024 18:38

LOL 🤣

’pony’ being the adjective 🤣

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I'm no wiser.

I understand all the words. I just don't understand how they go together. I've tried googling "pony salmon" and "pony gratin" and nothing.

Does everyone else know what it means?

ByUmberViewer · 08/04/2024 18:42

Just throw it in the bin if you don't want it.

shoppingshamed · 08/04/2024 18:40

Newbutoldfather · 08/04/2024 18:14

Is this an in joke?!

2 stone, 28 lbs, 12.7kgs? What oven would take that? How did you take it out of the oven?

Not buying it, sorry….

It must be, you can't accidentally over make a lasagne and a very odd reaction if somehow you weren't aware of how many ingredients you were using 😁

Merryoldgoat · 08/04/2024 18:38

NeverEnoughPants · 08/04/2024 18:27

You're having what??

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LOL 🤣

’pony’ being the adjective 🤣

PlasticOno · 08/04/2024 18:37

maudelovesharold · 08/04/2024 18:36

Hang around outside the nearest maternity unit with your copious lasagne, op.

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X-post. Also haunt supermarket aisles by the newborn sized nappies.

PlasticOno · 08/04/2024 18:36

MILTOBE · 08/04/2024 18:33

Where's she supposed to find someone who's just had a baby?!

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Wander the streets listening for newborn cries floating out of open windows? Waylay couples leaving the local maternity unit? 😀

maudelovesharold · 08/04/2024 18:36

MILTOBE · 08/04/2024 18:33

Where's she supposed to find someone who's just had a baby?!

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Hang around outside the nearest maternity unit with your copious lasagne, op.

MILTOBE · 08/04/2024 18:33

PrincessTeaSet · 08/04/2024 18:10

Food banks wouldn't take this. They can't just hand out random home cooked foods of unknown ingredients and sell by dates.

I would give it to someone who's recently had a baby

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Where's she supposed to find someone who's just had a baby?!

midgetastic · 08/04/2024 18:31

It's amazing what you can often shove into the freezer with sone effort especially if you don't worry about the shape when it comes out again

YeahComeOnThen · 08/04/2024 18:30

LouOver · 08/04/2024 18:09

Work kitchen?

I'm not feeling the layer of basil leaves. Feels a bit rachel and the trifle in friends.

@LouOver it's nothing like Rachel & the triffle!!!

NeverEnoughPants · 08/04/2024 18:27

Merryoldgoat · 08/04/2024 18:11

FFS.

I want a lasagne now and not the pony salmon and asparagus gratin that’s in the oven

You're having what??

YeahComeOnThen · 08/04/2024 18:27

PossumintheHouse · 08/04/2024 18:23

For fuck sake. Portion it up, freeze some of them. Then enjoy laughing about something so mundane as you're trying to, ey?

@PossumintheHouse

No need for that!!

...besides, she said she doesn't have room in her freezer.