Cabbage in vegetable lasagne

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Is it me or should the vegetables in a vegetable lasagne but the ones you put in a ratatouille ie. peppers, onions, corgettes, aubergine, some sort of tomato based sauce - that sort of thing.

I have just bought my lunch and my vegetable lasagne has the following in it: white cabbage, french beans, leeks, cauliflower, peppers and spring onions in a tomato based sauce. Is it just me or is this really odd?

Yes it's very odd

I'd swap the cabbage for some minced beef

they are vegetables aren't they?
YABU: it didn't say 'mediterranean vegetables'. I love a bean and carrot lasagne with mushrooms, spinach and cottage cheese in!

Yabu, cabbage is a cheap filler in bought food

It's odd, as is the cauliflower

That's definitely weird!

Sounds odd to me, not what I would think of for veggie lasagne.

true, they are vegetables and it's not an unplesant thing to eat it's just weird.

Although by the same argument if you opened up a pot of tomatoes and sultanas would you think 'well, it does say it's a fruit salad'

It does sound weird. My DH is always baffled by the veggie curries at certain curry houses nearby which have frozen sprouts in.

No no no no

No to cabbage.

It's not even wrong.

Thank you maid of stars! (and for your use of not even wrong)

I think it sounds quite nice! Veggies must get sick if pepper/courgette in everything.

Think you got diddled!

I don't think they necessarily need to be ratatouille-style vegetables (I've done a kale and mushroom lasagne before that's very nice), but just white cabbage would be a step too far for me, I think.

Aaaaaahhhhhhh....pet hate! I bet they just opened up a bag of frozen mixed veg and chucked it in. Because all vegetables taste the same, obvs
Lazy, sloppy, cookery, made by someone who thinks of vegetarians as second class citizens- unless there is also a "meat pie" on the menu? Bet there isn't!

Interestingly, in Italy there is no such dish as "lasagne". It's the name of the actual pasta, and what we call lasagne they'd call "pasticcio". They will actually use a surprisingly wide range of vegetables, depending on what's in season. I've had lovely pumpkin lasagne, and radicchio lasagne (flavoured with bits of smoked ham, which I picked out . The difference is that they always tell you what vegetable it is, and give some thought to how it will taste, and what to combine it with.

Down with "vegetable" anything! Vegetables have personalities too!

What did it taste like? Or did the odd veggies put you off?

Hugh Fearnley has a kale and mushroom lasagne… I like it. Even the kids eat it actually.

it is a bit weird, but I am not a purist about "authentic" food. The real test is whether or not it tasted good.

Did it?

Hmmm that doesn't sound right, the canteen at my old work place used to put whole pickled onions in their veggie lasagnes and chillies though, can any body top that for weird ingredients?

Are you in South Wales? I had a very similar lasagne when at a cafe in South Wales and like you I have to say I found it pretty odd. It was nice but definitely not a classic vegetable lasagne recipe.

IInterestingly, in Italy there is no such dish as "lasagne". It's the name of the actual pasta, and what we call lasagne they'd call "pasticcio".

Thats not interesting,, its just wrong. There is of course lasagne which is a type of pasticcio. The former is a far more widely used term for it though. It dates back thousands of year (from the roman latin lasanum, a cooking pot). I can assure you that menus all over Italy say lasagne and not pasticcio.