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Homemade lasagna.

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Idrinkmywhiskeyneat · 29/05/2024 16:59

Is it one of the best inventions known to man?
Just stood in the kitchen with my lovely meaty, tomatoey sauce in one pan and the cheesy loveliness in the other. One of the best best is getting a spoonful of the mincemeat and topping it with the cheese sauce and just eating it off the spoon, whilst you’re stood over it, cooking it all. It has to be a very tomatoey, cheesy, thick lasagna, also extra nice, if left and eaten later in the evening or the next morning,

Anyway, sorry, just a homemade lasagna appreciation post.

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AlpineMuesli · 30/05/2024 21:19

Garfield…is that you?

Trishthedish · 30/05/2024 21:14

MouseMinge · 29/05/2024 23:06

@Idrinkmywhiskeyneat thank you for this thread. I shall try and keep a long story as short as I can to let you know why I'm thanking you. I have cancer of the oesophagus. Actually, if treatment has worked maybe I don't. I'll find out by the middle of next month. Anyway,poor me etc. I drink a lot of food supplements because for ages I just couldn't eat because food go stuck and blah. Recently I've been aware that I'm sure I could eat more but I have a bit of a mental block and get scared that x will get stuck and I don't want to try it. A couple of weeks ago a friend and I talked about cheese for an hour - we are that exciting - and I brought up Gouda and then really, really, really wanted to try it. I did. I am currently eating it every day without too many problems. I want to introduce more food to my diet (I am underweight, it's not nice to look at myself) but it needs to be something that suddenly grabs me from somewhere and then becomes like some made pregnancy craving but, you know, cancer instead. I read what you'd written, read a bit more and now I desperately want lasagne and it has to be homemade. It couldn't be real meat as that is a definite no-no for now, but with well seasoned quorn or similar. I am salivating.

This has ended up longer than I wanted it to be. Of course you're not unreasonable and (currently) 13% of people on this thread are a bit wrong, possibly in the head. You've made me happy and I'm going to get a friend to help me make a really good homemade lasagne (I used to make great lasagne, I need help because I'm a bit feeble at the moment, blah, blah). If it turns out I can't eat it (slowly, all eating is slow) then she can have it, there's no waste and a delicious lasagne gets eaten one way or another. Thank you for giving me a seriously tasty in so many ways, from actual taste to smell and texture and oh my, craving. Possibly the best one yet!

(I hope I haven't derailed the thread too much!🙂)

Hope it lives up to your dreams. Also hope you are better soon

QueenOfTheEntireFuckingUniverse · 30/05/2024 21:00

Jeannie88 · 30/05/2024 20:55

Yes, with garlic bread, mmm. Personally I do prefer salmon lasagne now, if you haven't tried it you should! Also vegetable lasagne is so tasty. Xx

Do you have a recipe for the salmon one please?

Trishthedish · 30/05/2024 20:59

twigy100 · 29/05/2024 18:25

Does any one have a recipe they recommend?

James Martin’s is delicious imo

Fangisnotacoward · 30/05/2024 20:58

Homemade lasagne is the food of the gods.

I spent far too much of my life thinking I didn't like lasagne because I'd only ever had the frozen microwavable crap from the '80s!

LeopardPrintIsNeutral · 30/05/2024 20:58

Lasagne doesn’t have cheese sauce?!?!

Italianasoitis · 30/05/2024 20:56

LaCerbiatta · 30/05/2024 11:23

I'm sorry but it's really not. I'm not italian but have been fluent, albeit many moons ago. I'm portuguese and we have that sound as well, maybe that's why it's so clear to me it's not like onion at all.
Maybe an italian will come along and back me up!!

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I'm not Italian either but I also live in Italy and there most definitely is a 'n' sound and the gn definitely makes a 'nyuh' type of sound. It is boll-oh-nyez-eh.

Jeannie88 · 30/05/2024 20:55

Yes, with garlic bread, mmm. Personally I do prefer salmon lasagne now, if you haven't tried it you should! Also vegetable lasagne is so tasty. Xx

Trishthedish · 30/05/2024 20:55

Idrinkmywhiskeyneat · 29/05/2024 18:14

@BabsMustGo I add cheese into my bechamel sauce…try it! Grated cheddar…so so good..I thought everyone did this, maybe this is why mines the best lasagna in town 😂

I do too. Also shredded mozzarella and Parmesan on top. Nom, nom, nom

EnglishGirlApproximately · 30/05/2024 20:52

Lasagne is our favourite family meal. When I was furloughed and had plenty of time on my hands I made one with a very slow cooked beef brisket, pulled when tender and made into a Ragu 😋 My family still talk about it now.
I probably do it once a month on average as DS requests it every week. His favourite meals all take hours and this is at least one I don't need to think about too much as I've made it so many times I could do it in my sleep!

Trishthedish · 30/05/2024 20:51

SisterImpera · 29/05/2024 18:00

YABVVVU!!! Am desperate for lasagna now!

So firstly, what recipe, and secondly, what kind of dish (to serve 6)? My previous attempts have not been great and I can never fit lasagna sheets in my dish without messing around with breaking them up. Please tell!!!

James Martin’s recipe is delicious. And you can buy fresh pasta sheets in most supermarkets, which are easier to cut to fit your dish. Good luck 😀

Trishthedish · 30/05/2024 20:45

Homemade lasagne is the food of the gods, served with green salad and garlic bread. My personal favourite recipe is James Martin’s. Pure bliss

Stripeysocks1981 · 30/05/2024 20:44

Youhaveyourhandsfull · 30/05/2024 20:43

Life is absolutely too short to make lasagne at home.

False.
Life is too short to eat shitty frozen lasagna 😂
I quite enjoy cooking it anyway. Only when I’m off work like.

Italianasoitis · 30/05/2024 20:44

I used to absolutely love lasagne until I moved to Italy and now I hate it.

Youhaveyourhandsfull · 30/05/2024 20:43

Life is absolutely too short to make lasagne at home.

Lifeomars · 30/05/2024 20:41

Idrinkmywhiskeyneat · 30/05/2024 20:14

The combo of eating the lasagna with buttered potatoes is 😋

sounds like heaven on earth, I am always very restrained and do broccoli and green beans or a big mixed salad, now thinking sod that and am going full on carb fest

Lifeomars · 30/05/2024 20:39

TheBanffie · 30/05/2024 20:26

Could you recommend a good red lentil veggie recipe please? I've had lovely ones eating out but never been as successful at home

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Will message you with my recipe, I made it up myself so will need to sit down and double check all the quantities as I tend to do it all by sight and fling it in the slow cooker. Give me a couple of days and I will be in touch!

Isometimeswonder · 30/05/2024 20:28

I knew there'd be food snobs moaning that it should be bechemel not cheesy sauce.

  1. Cheese sauce is better than no-cheese sauce.
  2. That's it.
TheBanffie · 30/05/2024 20:26

Lifeomars · 29/05/2024 22:56

I love lasagne, make several versions, the traditional bolognese one, a veggie one with red lentils, grated carrots and grated courgettes in the tomato sauce, and a chicken one that I seem to have lost the recipe for but can probably find an online version of. I now want some lasagne and it is bedtime and I had my tea quite late!

Could you recommend a good red lentil veggie recipe please? I've had lovely ones eating out but never been as successful at home

LongSinceGotUpAndGone · 30/05/2024 20:18

Idrinkmywhiskeyneat · 30/05/2024 20:14

The combo of eating the lasagna with buttered potatoes is 😋

Lasagne and chips 😀

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Idrinkmywhiskeyneat · 30/05/2024 20:14

The combo of eating the lasagna with buttered potatoes is 😋

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Idrinkmywhiskeyneat · 30/05/2024 20:13

😂😂😂it’s so lovely though

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CountessWindyBottom · 30/05/2024 20:03

Idrinkmywhiskeyneat · 29/05/2024 17:13

Served with boiled potatoes (controversial perhaps) dripping in melted butter

I was so invested in this thread until I read this. Sorry but I’m out 🤣🤣

MrsSkylerWhite · 30/05/2024 18:38

bridgetreilly · Today 10:55
When I was 18, an Italian lady taught me how to make ragu. Her advice was that you can put whatever you like in it, but you must cook it for at least three hours. Never fails”

Indeed, can’t be overcooked: friend with Italian in-laws. Says there’s always a pot on the go in their kitchen when it gets low, it’s topped up anew. Some of it must be simmering for at least three days 😁

ilovegranny · 30/05/2024 18:36

It’s a true labour of love, but well worth it. I make a big one and then portion and freeze the leftovers. I’m a shit cook but I make a mean lasagne.

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