Made the lasagna without the lasagna

We had salad yesterday 😱🫣

Have a look for macaroni lasagne on good food it’s ace just use any pasta. Then just eat the potatoes like you would or stick them in the oven.

But lasagne IS a pasta dish??

I find this thread a little bit strange. OP make a pastitsio instead. Serve the potatoes alongside (if you must).

here's an example recipe for you https://www.mygreekdish.com/recipe/pastitsio/

I’d serve the mince alongside the potato’s with the cheese sauce on top of the potatoes. (Like daphenoise spuds)

It's called dinner.

I use cheese sauce in my "lasagne" too because cheese makes everything savory taste better. Dried oregano sprinkled over any cheese you're going to melt is good too.

I think boiled potatoes with anything is a bit unfashionable these days and they are particularly out of place with lasagne. If you're going to double carb your lasagne do it with garlic bread.

Another thing that's baffling me (along with the potatoes with lasagne, the potatoes being cooked hours before they're needed, the assertion that it's 'weird to have pasta and potatoes but not lasagne', the inability of the OP to figure out how to make a meal from the ingredients she does have) is that if you're not feeling 100% OP, why on earth did you decide that lasagne was the meal to make?! I avoid doing that on days where I feel 110% because it is such a FAFF. Don't get me wrong, I love a lasagne, and will occasionally give in to the faff in order to have one, but surely when you're feeling ill, that is the perfect time to just have something really simple...?!

How were you planning to heat them to serve them before you realised the lasagne sheets were missing?

oh lol. Do you genuinely not buy and use peppers in the winter? What about tomatoes? If you restricted yourself to eating only what the UK could grow in season I think you'd be pretty bored.

That's fideua, not paella.

You can if you throw a dash of milk or cream into the bottom of the pan along with the butter. Heat until the butter melts then you will be able to mash it all into the potatoes.

Are you this hopeless usually?

If your child came to you and asked how they could reheat these potatoes to make mash with them... What would you tell them?

Of course you can, you're not leaving them there until morning! Stick some butter in, put it on the heat, and mash. Season and stir with a big spoon until heated through and suitably mashy.

You do know you can cook things in a pan that aren’t boiled in water don’t you?

Just turn it into baked ziti

no idea what you do with the potatoes. I suppose if you were going to put them in a lasagna, you could put them in with any other pasta.

I think OP is confusing leafy greens with salad.

@Brainfogtothemax leafy greens would be ones that are cooked- kale, non-baby spinach, spring greens, cabbage, cavolo nero, that sort of thing. Tenderstem broccoli would also do the same job, nutritionally.

This thread is genius OP 👏👏🤣

I'm calling my mum and What a shit day! made me laugh.

It's such a simple thread but you've managed to wind everyone up, the double carb pearl clutchers, the pendants, the leafy green brigade and the SPAG police!
Brilliant!

Why are you still trying to use all the stuff.

The potatoes can wait till tomorrow, or the cheese sauce, or the meat sauce.

Just pick something you want to eat and stick it on a plate.

Well, I'm a foodie of a sort, and whenever I make lasagna I do make the béchamel sauce cheesy 😂 but hey, it's MY bastardised lasagna and while I apologise to any genuine Italians on this thread, I'm very much NOT calling it 'Glom's authentic Italian nonna's lasagna'. I just like my white sauce to be of the cheesy variety. I put a tin of tomatoes in 'bolognese' sauce too ...

I'm still waiting for Waitrose to apologise to what they've done to Portuguese cakes and still call them 'Portuguese'.

OP, I fear many many posters have said what I'm about to - but I'd cut my losses at this stage, mash the potatoes (of COURSE you can do that if they've gone cold, just add a tiny bit of milk and heat gently, and a shitload of butter and seasoning. Layer meaty sauce with cheesy sauce, heap mash on top, fork a pattern on it, oven. Call it whatever you like, it sounds the right sort of thing for cold weather.

God I saw the title and thought my Mum had found MN! She once memorably made lasagna with no sheets, and texted what she thought was her friend - who had previously had to serve bolognese with rice as she had no pasta in at all - except being not very techy and using a new phone, she didn't text her friend but rather the first number in her contacts list...which was the local taxi rank 😂 I still wish we could have seen their faces when the weird robot voice read out "hello Jill, just made lasagna with shells and thought of you!"