Homemade lasagna.

Goodness! Resting ragu! That's a new one. I do agree that lasagne is better the day after it is made though.

With you on the salad and balsamic dressing. ( just iceberg and tomatoes). Making lasagne is just making 2 sauces and then layering. I've trained my kids to layer. HNRFT but I add a middle layer of cottage cheese/ baby spinach/ tin tomatoes. A bit of nutmeg on the top bechamel layer ( along with heaps of cheese and into the oven. You can make both the sauces in less than 30 minutes. Bolognese takes the longest but bechamel takes about 15 minutes. It's so much easier than a roast and then you have leftovers you can eat or freeze in portions.
Don't forget the salt!!
It's probably cheaper to buy frozen ones, but homemade is so easy and yummy. And the house smells yum

I haven’t made lasagne yet this year, I may have to rectify that. Takes a couple of days because the ragu needs to rest. Worth it though.

I used to live near a really good Italian deli in Brighton and you could buy "ready meals" there which were homemade by the owners. Their lasagna was everything that supermarket bought ready meals will never be. Almost as good as mine and perfect in the winter when it's a Friday, you're tired, you don't want to cook but you want lush food. Happy days!

And liver.

No veg in it for me except the usual celery, carrot, onion
I love salad on the side though, it was my fixation meal for about 2 weeks!

My friend says “bollug-nays” and it makes me irrationally irritated.

Peppers and courgettes don’t belong in a lasagna with meat 😱😁

I love my lasagne but I get feedback that I put too much veg in it 😔. Has to be full of peppers mushrooms onions and courgette 50/50 with the meat for me personally. Then served with salad and balsamic dressing. My absolute favourite meal. Has to be home made restaurant or shop bought never have enough veg

You’re not wrong. Husband’s birthday coming up. We’ve been lucky enough to eat at some of the world’s best restaurants. He has a great palate, appreciates wines, etc. asked him what he’d like for his birthday dinner. No hesitation “your lasagna, please”!

I use fresh pasta, ricotta in the bechamel and barolo in the ragu. Love on a plate 😁

I make the best. And I don't have to precook anything! Not the sauce, not the cheese. I make a meat version and a veggie one. Recently for a trip away with 8 other people, the veggie said she was dreading it as all non vegetarians don't know how to cook veggie (🤨) and it's always bland, but this was the best lasagna she'd ever had.
Mind you she made veggie chilli the next day and it was... bland (I also make a fab chilli, but not a veggie one).

Lasagna is my comfort food. It is not hard to make really, just time consuming which is why when you make ragu you have to make 5x more than you need and freeze so you can have bolognese/lasagne in reserve for when needed. I made a cottage pie the other day and that was amazing and a good chilli. All need long and low heat cooking to make them great- which is why you need to have them cooked and in reserve for duvet days.

And it's amazing cold too... Just wandering by the fridge, with a spoon.... Nothing to see here!

Lasagne is no more hard work than a spag bol. Cook your lovely flavoursome mince. Instead of boiling spaghetti, mix up a quick cheese (or white) sauce using a classic roux.
Layer, grate a bit on top, bung in the oven. Serve with salad (or chips, or indeed boiled potatoes, or mash!?!!) I prefer it with Sarsons vinegar 😂

That'll be a spicy Shepherd's Pie then.

Sounds amazing!

@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!🙂)

Love it! My ultimate favourite! Serve it with garlic bread or chips or salad or all three! Gorgeous! And always serve a massive portion! It’s the law.

I have never tried that, sounds heavenly

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!

I love making home made lasagna completely from scratch.

And it is amazing reheated.

It’s good for a day when you’re not going out. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s mum’s lasagne takes 7 hours to make.

OP, you lost me with the potatoes. Other than that agreed 100% a good lasagna is great.