Round lasagne

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I've made lasagne for tea. I grabbed the first pot I could see to bake it in. It's round. All four members of my family have separately walked into the kitchen and said 'round lasagne?!'

Is it that odd?

I'm thinking of making a square apple pie to go with it

With pasta I should add...

Round lasagna and square Apple pie? The world has gone truly mad. I feel sorry for the children!

Did you make that group?? I've just joined it, BTW!

Wantsunshine - believe me, with my cooking they have no idea what shape anything has been cooked in once it's slapped on their plates

Love is like a butterfly!

Sloppy Lasagne??

Wrong, wrong, wrong!

I like a firm, rectangular shape that delivers precise cubes of lasagne.
Basically, if the lasagne doesn't stand up by itself on the plate, I won't eat it!

YABU

What the hell gooey, where's the sauce if it stands up?!

One of the admins of Slow cooked wonders is a mumsnetter not me though! I've had some brilliant meals from there

5Day I'm not the biggest bechamel fan so I use more mince & tomato sauce. Still nice & cheesy just a little more.... Structural!

I use the fresh pasta sheets and then use scissors to cut the sheets to the right size. My (rectangular) lasagne is cooking right now. Mine is a bit sloppy too but no one has ever complained. This was my DH' s choice of any Father's Day meal he wanted.

Mine is always round. I use fresh sheets and trim.them.a bit with scissors.

I make loads of cheese sauce. Some of it makes it into the lasagne

Even with a square one you end up snapping sheets. YANBU.

I thought you meant canneloni (big pasta tubes), OP, but I see you cooked it in a round dish. I'm going to gratuitously post my canneloni top tip anyway. You need a deeper dish than for lasagne, but it is a good tip. Don't bother trying to stuff each tube, instead pour your meat sauce into the deep dish, then push in the tubes vertically until you've used up your tubes or space. Top with bechamel/cheese sauce & bake as usual.

My FB group, slow cooked wonders, have lots of successes with lasagne in the slow cooker. Take a look!

I was in that group as well as some other slow cooker groups but there was an unbelieveable amount of squabbling and fighting so i left them all. I didnt realise slow cooking was such a contentious issue

It's all calmed down now, very boring

Dh has taken it upon himself to make lasagne. I have no idea why. It's the first he has made and he keeps calling questions through from the kitchen (which I am avoiding as it's a tiny kitchen and it truly looks like a bomb has gone off in there) as to how to make it.

He's doing one meat and one vegetarian, despite the fact that none of us are vegetarian. He was, but hasn't been for over 10 years now.

He's just told me that he hopes I'm open minded as to what the results will be.

Dustbunny I love cannelloni but it's such a faff I rarely make it. Will try your way
Thanks!

STICKEM it's gone, they scoffed the lot

I had no idea that there were people in the world that actualy like a sloppy lasagne. I am occasionally required to eat sloppy lasagne out of politeness, but is made by someone who doesn't eat it themselves (it's a "help how do I cater for vegetarians - food is defined as lumps of meat served with boiled vegetables" situation). I swear there can't be more than a single sheet of pasta in there, with a thin layer of cheese on top, and the dish could be most charitably described as tomato soup. Nice lasagne has structural integrity and stacks tall and proud on the plate, but round is just as acceptable as square or rectangular.

If I'm just cooking for me and DP I make individual lasagna and don't bake them, dps mum couldn't comprehend it.

It's always sloppy chez wide...

I buy Asda ready done fresh canneloni with spinach and ricotta. Slatter alert but stuffing dried canneloni tubes has to be one of the least efficient uses of anyones time.

Mmmm I prefer my lasagne in individual dishes too. With lots of sauce round the edge and a really crispy cheese layer baked on the top.

The slow cooker fb groups are mainly a whole bunch of pre prepared food, cooked into a sloppy mess, with people congratulating themselves on serving up a whole 'from scratch ', meal, with frozen grey veg.
Or from scratch cakes, with a packet mix and a can of panda cola.
Bleeeeurgh.
I once suggested that you may not need to serve three types of carb with one meal, and got deleted for not being helpful.

we make a mexican tortilla type lasagna which is lovely. the tortillas don't go soggy but do go soft.

I have made square, round, rectangular and oval lasagna, pies and crumble. i just use whichever pan i can find