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Would you serve lasagna with baked potatoes?

175 replies

RedSkyLastNight · 02/06/2019 17:04

Prompted by a conversation with my parents..

I would serve lasagna (the traditional meat version) with a side salad and possibly garlic bread.
My parents like to serve it with a (large) baked potato. I reckon this is far too much stodge and you shouldn't serve lasagna with baked potato, but my parents reckon they have been to many restaurants that served it thus.

How do you like your lasagna?

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WelshMammaofaSlovak · 02/06/2019 17:20

My parents used to serve this and they were always big spuds - I think it was to make the lasagne last for two sets of dinner??? I always liked it and never questioned it but, now I come to think of it, it's on the carby side of carby!!! I serve it with salad and garlic bread these days but I've often seen it in restaurants with chips and, again, didn't really think twice about it. I guess, like so much in life, you do you and have it whichever way floats your boat???

GentleBen · 02/06/2019 17:21

I had a boyfriend once whose mum served it to me with boiled rice. Mind. Blown.

TapasForTwo · 02/06/2019 17:22

Too stodgy for me. I just do salad with it, but I'm not stingy with my portions.

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MrsTerryPratchett · 02/06/2019 17:23

Are potatoes stodgier than garlic bread?

I serve lasagne with lasagne. Salad maybe. But not anything else.

taybert · 02/06/2019 17:23

I’d serve it with salad +/- garlic bread. It’s acceptable to eat it with chips or a potato if you’re working in a hospital on a long shift and you’ve managed to get to the canteen. For this you deserve the ultimate prize of pasta and potato.

PatriciaHolm · 02/06/2019 17:24

Just salad or green beans/peas.

Would you have chips or a jacket with spag Bol??!

taybert · 02/06/2019 17:24

Forgot to say, in that instance you’re also allowed pudding with custard.

Deadringer · 02/06/2019 17:25

I love baked potatoes with lasagna! I don't like garlic bread with it though. I would have salad too but none of my DC really like salad so the potato makes it slightly more healthy. I put a lot of meat and veg in mine and am quite sparing with the lasgna sheets though.

TheVanguardSix · 02/06/2019 17:26

No, I wouldn't serve it with baked potato but I'd eat it without complaint if it were served to me. It's just one meal out of many. No big thing.

TheKitchenWitch · 02/06/2019 17:26

Just a salad. I find even the idea of bread with it utterly bizarre. Potatoes of any kind is just wrong.

TheFallenMadonna · 02/06/2019 17:27

However, several people who say a potato would be too stodgy say they would serve garlic bread, including the OP, so the question is to them.

CustardD123 · 02/06/2019 17:28

Nope. I just prefer it on its own to be honest - even the garlic bread can make it a bit too carby for my liking. Definitely not a jacket potato.

TraffordTansy · 02/06/2019 17:29

Just a salad. I find even the idea of bread with it utterly bizarre. Potatoes of any kind is just wrong.

Exactly!

TapasForTwo · 02/06/2019 17:31

"so the potato makes it slightly more healthy."

Surely, serving a baked potato with lasagne would not be considered slightly more healthy than garlic bread because a baked potato without butter is too dry and unappetising?

redspider1 · 02/06/2019 17:32

No. I have it with salad and possibly garlic bread but DH always wants more carbs so he would have chips or jacket potato.

redspider1 · 02/06/2019 17:32

The garlic bread is demanded by my teens! Just salad for me,

teraculum29 · 02/06/2019 17:34

would you served shepards pie with cooked pasta on side??
I don't think so, so lasagna shouldn't be served with baked potato or even chips.

TheFallenMadonna · 02/06/2019 17:34

Peas are quite "carby" too. About 0.7 the total carbohydrate of the same mass of potato. According to the internet.

EnjoyItAll · 02/06/2019 17:36

Where I used to work people use to ask to swap chips or salad for a baked potato. No idea why! Garlic bread and salad for me!

AbbyHammond · 02/06/2019 17:36

Just salad.

Lasagne and jacket potato sounds like hospital food! When I was on the ante-natal ward every meal seemed to be pasta, peas and carrots and chips/wedges/jackets.

Fairylea · 02/06/2019 17:36

Never ever heard of anyone having it with a jacket potato Shock Mind blown.

I like it with chips and mayonnaise which lots probably find weird but hey ho.

CremantDeLoireSocialist · 02/06/2019 17:36

On its own or with salad. No baked potato! That's double carbing which is strange and unnatural. Garlic bread is just about acceptable because it's so delicious.

user27495824 · 02/06/2019 17:36

Jacket potato is weird. Never seen this before and lasagne is my favourite so I often order it when eating out. I prefer it with just a side salad and maybe garlic bread to pad it out, and chips is acceptable somehow in cafes and pubs, but not a jacket potato.

FurrySlipperBoots · 02/06/2019 17:36

Urgh no, 2 carbs together! You want a nice green salad with lasange.

Kanga83 · 02/06/2019 17:36

Salad, fries and garlic bread here! But it's a rare treat.