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?

My DD made a vegetable lasagne for our tea. It was most peculiar as it had mange tout and green beans in which are meant to be cooked for minutes as opposed to an hour in a lasagne. They were a funny colour and I had to pretend I was extremely full when she offered me seconds and thirds

A million years ago I had lasagne in the canteen at work. It was garnished with little red round things which turned out to be glace cherries. That was a bit odd.

What with both cabbage and cauliflower in your lasagne, I expect you've had a windy afternoon, OP!

The cauliflower is more out of place than the cabbage, to be honest - though I'd use a dark green cabbage like savoy or something like kale or cavalo nero, rather than white or red cabbage.

OK, well the restaurant I worked in in Venice used to call it "pasticcio", but maybe that was a local usage.

Glacé cherries and pickled onions? Cauliflower and cabbage is delightful in comparison!
Yanbu though, they are not lasagne foods. Makes me think of when you get a veggie curry and it has sweet corn and broccoli in it. Wrongness.

Sounds nice, I hate aubergine and courgettes. Would rather have the one you describe. Was it nice?

it was fine just wasn't what I expected when I ordered a vegetable lasagne. Our canteen has previous on vegetable lasagne, usually it's described as vegetarian lasagne and it's quorn (annoyed it wasn't veg, I hate quorn) So I was quite excited that today's would have been a proper veggie lasagne.

I'm not vegetarian I just really like veggie lasagne.

I think I need more a more to occupy my mind

Surely it is reasonable to expect "Mediterranean" veg in a traditionally Mediterranean dish?!

Yanbu

ROFL at glace cherries WTF! someone saw it in the fridge and thought it was a trifle in need of decoration? think yourself lucky it did not have grated chocolate on too.

cabbage and cauli in lasagne is odd, spinach or kale less so IMO

I don't think it's a Mediterranean dish, is it?

Italy's major agricultural products are sugar beets, wheat, corn, tomatoes, oranges, potatoes, apples, barley and rice. That'd be one interesting lasagne...

Sounds like left overs to me.
I once ordered a pasta in tomato sauce from a pub menu and when it came it had strips of cabbage and carrot in it - it was utterly revolting not very nice and I couldn't get past the idea that they'd just shoved in what ever they had left lying around the kitchen. Never eaten there since.

Yes Campanile Hotel Nuneaton, the left over boiled veg from the wedding party next door covered in some sauce very remniscent of male seminal fluid does not a "vegetable stroganoff" make .

Recovering from an appendectomy I was offered a lovely cauliflower lasagne -with mashed potato on the side. Just the thing for a poor appetite-a totally white plateful. It also stunk horribly of overcooked cauli.

Massa Lasagne originated in Italy, so yes, I'd say it was a Mediterranean dish.

I was served a tomato pasta dish in a hotel once, it was full of stir-fry veg - including beanspouts and baby corn. It was like a bad joke - and there was an absolute mountain of it as well. It tasted appalling.

Some veg just doesn't belong in a tomato sauce!

Look at the side veg in a restaurant. I've seen carrot batons, green beans sliced uniformly and cauliflower florets served al dente. Guess what was in my veg lasagne, all laid in neat rows between the sheets of pasta. It really made me wonder if it had previously been on the tables and returned to the kitchen.

To me the main herb used in a veg lasagne is oregano, or a ready mixed 'Italian seasoning' but hardly any restaurants use Italian herbs at all in their veg pasta dishes.

The veg curry at the same place also contained the same veg, they didn't even bother cutting it up. I know because someone on the next table had it and I could see.

I can also never understand why people put carrots in a tomato sauce, I think that combo is horrid.

I used to go out with a chef. We went out for dinner on a Monday night and I ordered a vegetable soup, it was a Monday. After we'd ordered he said that was a classic chef thing to make a veg soup with all the left over veg from Sunday lunch (not scraped off plates tough, just the stuff they'd prep'd on a Sunday that hadn't been ordered).

I couldn't agree more about carrots in a tomato sauce. Same as in a shepherds pie - this is wrong. (I did see a programme with Antonio Carluccio saying that carrot is traditional in Italian tomato sauces and fair enough the man knows more about Italian cooking than I know about anything but it's still wrong).

Oh god Namechanger that made me chuckle

Went to Italy for the first time on my honeymoon last month. I can assure everyone thinking that Lasagne is English (that very English word ) is actually Italian.

Excuse my French, but Italian lasagne shits all over UK attempts. Some (not Pizza Hut or dominos) pass the pizza test.

Jamie Oliver recommends carrots in everything. It really pisses me off. That or sweet corn.

Carrots in chilli con carne -NO
Carrots is spaghetti bolognese -NO
Carrots in cottage pie - NO

Don't even get me started on the sweet corn business.

The carrots are part of a mirepoix - carrot, celery and onion - that is the basis of many dishes, and tastier than just onion. Admittedly, pepper, celery and onion is more appropriate a combination for a chilli.