Lasagna with cheese on top

[RainbowRaine]

Just ordered a food delivery as a treat, DH ordered a lasagna and it came with cheese on top.

I would of complained as cheese does not belong on lasagna but DH loves it as says it's meant to come with melted grated cheese on top.

I disagree and think it's just meant to have the white sauce.

Should Lasagna have cheese?

YANBU = No cheese

YABU = Yes cheese

But that's just because "lasagne" is the name of the pasta shape not the dish. I suppose outside of Italy the pasta shape has become the dish.
It's like my aforementioned MIL saying to me when I say "which pasta shall I use?" replying she doesn't want "pasta" she wants tagliatelle.

Yup. Another one who thinks OP is bonkers.

Before current husband, I would make a classic Bechemel sauce but with nutmeg for Lasagna and add grated cheese topping.

Now, it's a basic cheese fest; cheese sauce (still nutmeg) - more cheese on top and homemade breadcrumbs* on top - to soak up cheese fat and enable crispy topping .

*any leftover bread, blitzed then stored in freezer.

more cheese on top and homemade breadcrumbs on top - to soak up cheese fat and enable crispy topping*

I'm making lasagna today and wonder if I can use panko breadcrumbs in the same way 🤔

@KatherineJaneway

Perfect! Completely forgot that I've done that too plus on Fish Pie! Yum!

[quote MrsCatE]@KatherineJaneway

Perfect! Completely forgot that I've done that too plus on Fish Pie! Yum![/quote]
Sounds like a plan 😃

I think Panko would be sublime!
I always add a sprinkling of breadcrumbs for extra crunch.
(Also to roast potatoes- Nigella told me)

You are the wrongest OP I've ever seen and I've seen some wronguns.

notlindabarker

@RainbowRaine May I ask how you top your pizza? Because I'm starting to worry you might be a 'ham and pineapple' kind of gal too

Extra cheese on pizza and pineapple does not belong on pizza.

Cheese is one of the main ingredients of lasagne! The white sauce you describe is cheese sauce and always it has cheese on top to create a cheesy crust.

Cheesy cheesy loveliness. It’s the icing on the cake, I mean lasagne.

Yep cheese on top

but it should be bechamel sauce and mozzarella.

If you put grated cheddar on top it will not be the same thing.

Well you lot, you made me do it... making a lovely lasagne tonight with oodles of cheese. Then some more on top, possibly mixed with breadcrumbs for extra crunchiness.

Me too

The ragu is cooking slowly in the oven as I write this.

I texted DS - pizza or lasagne. God that kid is easily pleased! It’s as if I’d offered him a Porsche or Lamborghini...

Just come back on to see if this thread had been deleted because obviously the OP was a troll. Otherwise this is just madness!

I think the OP is just handing her head in shame... still, I’m really looking forward to dinner tonight.

Lasagne always has cheese on it!

Oh but not cheddar, I make the bechemel with ricotta and Parmesan, then top with mozzarella and more Parmesan. When I lived with exh we usually had veggie lasagna and I used dolcheletta or similar blue cheese on top instead of mozzarella but dp doesn't like blue cheese

Well, as it happens I am making said Lasagna this evening, and it will not have any cheddar or morzarella anywhere near it. Just bechamel and parmesan. Also it will not be accompanied by anything other than a glass of wine .

baaaahhhhh except, perhaps, perchance, a second glass of wine ???

When I was in Italy I ate a lasagne which was basically lasagne pasta inserted into a block of cheese with a bit of red sauce added as an afterthought and shoved in an oven.

It was the absolute tits.

YABVVVVVU!

does that mean good or bad?

Lasagne - topped with parmesan is now in the oven.

Look what you started OP

@Meatshake

When I was in Italy I ate a lasagne which was basically lasagne pasta inserted into a block of cheese with a bit of red sauce added as an afterthought and shoved in an oven.

It was the absolute tits.

YABVVVVVU!

Same!

Mine was in a posh seafood restaurant and at that time I was fussy about fish. DH had a seafood platter which looked amazing.

I wonder if my lasagna was a little bit of a 'fuck you' from the chef. A bit like you get if you order the vegetarian option in Paris.