Homemade lasagna.

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Is it one of the best inventions known to man?
Just stood in the kitchen with my lovely meaty, tomatoey sauce in one pan and the cheesy loveliness in the other. One of the best best is getting a spoonful of the mincemeat and topping it with the cheese sauce and just eating it off the spoon, whilst you’re stood over it, cooking it all. It has to be a very tomatoey, cheesy, thick lasagna, also extra nice, if left and eaten later in the evening or the next morning,

Anyway, sorry, just a homemade lasagna appreciation post.

Potatoes?!

Nooooo. Served with salad and homemade garlic bread!

I make mine in a 2lb loaf tin. Gives 3 x generous portions, provides excellent edge crisping, and doesn't require any faffing with breaking/cutting lasagne sheets. The loaf tin lets you do plenty of layers and you end up with a lovely, tall stack of lasagne. I second the recommendation elsewhere in the thread to let it rest for a while after cooking for easier serving.

ive done that many times but more with curry and dipping bread

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Ooh, do you have a recipe please?

I do love a home made lasagne but yeah, it's a big old faff and so much washing up. Years ago you used to be able to buy green lasagne sheets (lasagne verdi?), which I much preferred over the standard yellow sheets, the green ones had more 'bite' and taste. Havent seen the green ones in the shops for years which im quite sad about really!

I've agree lasagne tonight for the second time.

Now I make the regular in the morning and whack in slow cooker all day

Then get home and make a cheese sauce instead of becahmel and layer it all up and then leave it to sit and soften up for a while and then I to the oven and 44 minutes later out pops perfection.

I haven't eaten meat in a long while now, and I do really like vegetarian lasagne, but my favourite will always be a red wine venison sausage meat one I used to make.

@Babyboomtastic your lasagne looks awesome have you got a recipe you would be willing to share please my attempts are never that great 😊

I want lasagne now, although I'm slightly horrified at some of these recipes.

A 10 minute beef ragu, not a hope in hell that tastes of anything.

Ragu simmered for at least 4 hours (onion, carrot, celery, garlic, beef and pork mince, rosemary, parsley, oregano, bay leaves, tomato puree, decent beef stock, red wine, and good quality chopped tomatoes, fresh basil in last 10 mins of cooking. Chuck in the rind of some parmesan if you have it.), bechamel, fresh lasagna sheets and a very generous grating of parmesan on top and sprinkled with some fresh basil. Best served the next day after setting overnight in the fridge.

I love a good old lassange but I never manage to dish it up the way you see it in the photos anyone got any tips to stop it looking like slop. I have tried leaving it for 15 mins before I dish it up but nothing changes. Any help

I want some right now, despite having had it only three hours ago!

I remember when DD had her first taste of lasagne when she was at school. She described it as cottage pie with custard on top…..it took as a while to realise what she meant!!

Our old local used to bulk buy Tesco value ones 🤢

Lasagne is a family favourite, and it’s always homemade - shop bought just isn’t the same! I add smoked streaky bacon to mine, and cottage cheese to the bechamel
sauce. I serve mine with a colourful salad and garlic bread, very occasionally new potatoes smothered in herbs and butter. I am salivating at the thought of it… will make it on Friday!

It is a faff, so if I make one lasagne I freeze massive portions of the ragu in separate bags and freeze the same number of portions of the cheese sauce. That way I can defrost the two and assemble whenever we fancy it.

Meat pasta sauce and repeat! It’s been ingrained in my head since I made my first lasagne when I was 15 😂 always finish with a layer of sauce and cover that with cheese of your choice 😋

It is lovely home made but does make me laugh this is what makes mumsnetter happy

I can assure you that lasagne does exist in Italy. It’s called Pasta al forno.

Home made is awesome.

Also a faff so once in a while - I do a veggie mince traditional and a green one from BBC Good Food with spinach cream cheese and cheddar and hazelnuts.

I make the Rachel Allen one - I make the ragu - leave it in the fridge then the following day make the bechamel sauce and cook it. Lovely

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Quick for lasagne though! Mine takes most of a day. I make 2 or 3 though and each feeds us a couple of times, so loads of frozen loveliness and it does a lot of slow simmering. So it doesn't demand a lot of attention. Definitely a faff, but so worth it!

The Italians who brought the dish to the New World probably brought their spelling with them...

Lots of work though op.the farm shop has frozen home made ones ( jolly farmers wife maybe)! I am unwell at present so going to ger a couple and pop them in freezer. Mmm.probably yours are better though