Made the lasagna without the lasagna

You could also save everything for tomorrow and pop out for lasagne sheets tomorrow morning instead.

Meanwhile turn the potatoes into a potato salad and hopefully you have some meat or fish in your fridge to cook.

Its odd to eat potatoes alongside lasagne or a pasta bake but I am Italian so maybe ok in the UK 😂

Potatoes don't go in a lasagne. Use the sauce and turn it into pasta bolognese.

There is some debate about how long it takes for the alcohol to burn off and the best cooking method to do so. Don't think its ridiculous to be cautious at all.

I am intolerant to peppers ( and so much more thats not food) so pureeing them and putting them in a Lasagne is the kind of lunacy that makes me very ill indeed, not to mention offends all of Italy
I DO like boiled buttery potatoes as long as they are still in their skins though

@mumsnet nominating this one for classics - mostly on account of the OP being so VERY adamant that boiled potatoes with a pasta bake would be oh so very wrong, yet of course with lasagne is completely normal & not to bat an eyelid at. And also for being an amazingly good sport & still coming back to offer everyone some buttery boiled potatoes by the end of it all ❤️

Slightly baffled about @Brainfogtothemax family digestion mind you...there doesn't seem to be room for much fibre on the plate & I'd be dying for a heap of broccoli beside my lasagne/pasta bake rather than 250cal of potatoes & butter - but maybe that's the answer to today's headline of why bowel cancer rates are going back up & the nation is so regularly overeating by 200cal a day. Broccoli for 2026 gets my vote!

Make vodka with the potatoes 🍸

Reheat the cheese sauce, add an egg to it, make moussaka with potatoes then add cheese sauce on top.

I voted YABU because you had an answer for anything that got suggested, you weren’t going to budge so you may as well have gone to the shop. But I had a few things worth highlighting:
Boiled potatoes with lasagne is weird. Everyone else’s reaction is the same as your reaction to any other pasta ? Lasagne IS pasta. Having said that, I’d definitely have it with chips and see it in pubs sometimes… perhaps only in Scotland though?

I’m baffled at your response to suggestions to have salad with lasagne because it’s winter. Do you not eat salad between October and May?? If my dish went best with salad that’s what I’d be having any time of year. Had quiche with salad last night actually.

also, I am fully aware proper lasagne has white sauce, but I always make cheese sauce as it tastes so good in lasagne. Surprised you are surprised that’s not the authentic (or most common) way though, do you never eat lasagne out?

one of the first posts suggested slicing the potatoes and making moussaka which seemed like the best suggestion!? And somehow you chose to mash the potatoes and plonk them on top!

Why the hell do you have to name it unless you are writing a cookbook. It's a meal not a pet. This post is ridiculous.

Yet putting mash and lasagne on the same plate isn't weird?

so who fancies lasagna but actual lasanga ?

I’m very late to the party but could you not have just asked on your street WhatsApp group if anyone could loan you a box of lasagne sheets?

I’d use the potatoes to make some gnocchi and put a layer of those in the place of the lasagne

This recipe, which has a wild mushroom béchamel has peppers. You puree the sauce after it's cooked and it's amazing!

https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/sausage-and-wild-mushroom-lasagne-with-red-pepper-tomato-sauce-11626

OP I've only read your posts in reply to lots of very sensible suggestions, but I just feel the need to say I've had such a laugh! Why can't you eat salad in winter? I've made salad for two meals in the last four days and we were out for a meal tonight and had a side salad served with the meal and it was delicious. And someone said green leafy veg and you immediately thought they were suggesting salad - what about broccoli? sprouts? kale? cabbage? even cauliflower at a pinch? In fact ANY veg? And lasagne is pasta, just a different shape from any other pasta so if you eat potatoes with lasagne why can't you eat them with other shaped pasta? Or you could follow the suggestions of posters who said to make moussaka, which is delicious - layer mince with potato and cheese sauce and sprinkle cheese on top. But you seemed to think that was weird too. I'll go read the end now to see what you did, but thanks for the laugh!

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I've never heard of potatoes used in lasagne, that's a new one on me.

You've made a ragu. serve it with pasta or potatoes, it doesn't have to be called anything.

This thread made me laugh.

You have OP, who possibly so delirious from illness she has lost the plot, then people so confidently mocking her cooking while saying red fucking pepper goes in a lasagna. Brilliant

This is a very funny thread, and you’ve been a good sport OP.

This thread is truly the gift that keeps on giving. It has to be a Classic ...
Hope you feel better today OP.

I'm perplexed that someone has to turn to Mumsnet for advice on this, and also by the number of responses for such a dull thread.

Actually, yes, I agree with this. I only ever have them boiled as new potatoes in the summer, with real butter and fresh parsley...and with salad & chicken. I eat salad all year round, btw, But apparently we're not allowed to in winter 🤣🤣🤣

No man would bother trying to conquer this mountain. Give up. If your cooking and your generally ability to pair food hasn’t been handed down right, then pass on the baton to the other adult in the household. You don’t have to be the default cook and bottlewasher just because you’re a woman.

Oh and lots of people with children have wine. That’s how many of us get through that whole mad phase.

My Mum made us a vegetarian one with spaghetti hoops between the pasta layers.