Made the lasagna without the lasagna

Noooo! the roux is just the butter and flour, before you add the milk.

I'm a bit late to the party OP so you've probably resolved this. But you can just use dried spaghetti instead of lasagne sheets.

Tatilla the hun? 🤣

No need to be so mean/snooty.

Tortia is a reasonable enough phonetic spelling of the Spanish pronunciation of “tortilla”. It’s better than spelling it correctly but pronouncing it to rhyme with Atila as in The Hun.

Turn it into a shepherd’s pie with the potatoes, and freeze the cheese sauce for another day. Or just keep it in the fridge if you’ll be using it soon.

Yep, totally confused now. You were planning to serve on the side so would have heated before serving anyway. So just heat them the same way you were always planning to, then mash them?

(Microwave would be best).

What the fuck is a tortia?

Please tell me you don’t mean tortilla? 🤣🤣

I dread to think what’s in that ragu for the lasagne…

Peppers? But it’s winter…

@wishingonastar101 her mother is the reason she is in this mess to begin with...

Stuffed peppers! Do you have peppers? Slice the tops of four red bell peppers. Boil them for about ten minutes to make them a bit soft, or don’t bother if you don’t mind them a bit crunchy. Stand them up in a baking dish and spoon your bolognese sauce into the peppers . Then top with your cheese sauce and oven bake for maybe half a hour. Serve with potatoes and extra cheese sauce. Et voila (I normally serve with rice rather than potatoes, but I think this would work. If you have four bell peppers knocking about…)

In OP’s defence, I have been served lasagna with boiled or baked potatoes in a student canteen. But even at a tender age it always struck me as too carb-heavy.

If I called my mum to tell her I had a shit day because I couldn't make dinner she would laugh at me....

I need to know why the lasagne was grilled? It's usually baked in the oven so the cheese doesn't need the grill to melt and go golden. I hate to ask but are the pasta sheets being boiled prior to assembly and then the whole thing grilled to melt the cheese?

Layer the meaty sauce with cooked pasta that isn't lasagne if you want pasta. Layer it with a drained can of white beans like cannellini and the white sauce and make it healthier! Layer with the boiled potatoes, sliced (you put boiled potatoes in lasagna?). Loads of options.

Put some Milk in the pan and put them on a low heat. Add the butter, mash, eat or cool and save.

This.
It will be delicious.
A friend uses tortia's instead.
Or just add cooked pasta, mix it up, top with cheese, into the oven.

I genuinely don't think I've ever read anything and insane as defending lasagna with boiled potatoes whilst insisting that pasta with them is weird, they are both blinking pasta dishes just different shapes 😆 I genuinely felt this was a wind up but you're extremely insistent it's not @Brainfogtothemax . Fwiw I add cheese to my white sauce (making it a cheese sauce, not bechamel, cos you know, cheese) when I make lasagna cos it's way tastier. And you need to reheat the potatoes in the microwave for a bit then you can mash them fine 👌🏻

But the potatoes were always going to be cold if you cooked them several hours in advance?

No veg. It's winter.

Op just freeze the potatoes for another day they’re unnecessary tubers!

Cook your alternative pasta shapes, stir through your meat sauce, place in a baking dish then pour your cheese sauce over and bake in the oven.

Let the potatoes go cold, stick them in the fridge. Fry them another day and serve with some crispy bacon.

Now you have two dinners instead of one!

Ricotta, mozzarella, parmesan are just bog standard cheeses in Italy

When the Italian wants to use a 'fancy cheese', they reach for the Black Bomber or smoked double gloucester. Or even Lild mild cheddar. They love the stuff.

Also grilling a lasagna... surely it goes in the oven?

This entire thread has made me laugh out loud, but in a much more wholesome way than most of the stuff on AIBU. Comedy gold OP. It’s only a matter of time (or maybe has already happened) before somebody says “It all goes down the same way in any case”.

Another one for using home made pancakes. Have used them before with lasagna filling and filled the pancakes instead of canaloni. Same white sauce & some cheese spread over the top and then baked, yum yum.