Made the lasagna without the lasagna

[Brainfogtothemax]

What to do?

Just prepped for dinner, did all the mince with tomatoes, onion etc and made the cheese sauce, boiled some potatoes and went to get the lasagna sheets and don’t have any.
Not feeling 100% so cba going to the shops, how can I make it into a proper meal? I have some pasta I could use instead, but what about the potatoes? Save them for tomorrow 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’ve taken on the suggestions, I will do the mince with mashed potato on top, then pour the cheese sauce over the top. Don’t know why but it seems a weird dish, no idea what to call it when Dh & Dd ask me

Lasagna is a pasta dish! Why can’t you understand that? It’s really really not a difficult concept.

OK, well in that case, your mum wasn't making bechamel sauce, or lasagne tbh.

but what about the potatoes?! 🤣

Poor op won't find a solution because she won't flex or buy anything lol.

What a funny thread!!

Edit: looks like op is making something. Honestly, that sounds like a delicious new dish, hope it tastes as good as I'm imagining!

Too many carbs?

I'm honestly not sure what you want from this thread OP, if it's not a wind up. Your options are to use the ingredients you have to make a meal that isn't lasagne (saving anything you can't/won't use for another day), or save what you've made until you can buy lasagne sheets. That's it. Were you hoping that someone was going to come up some little known secret where sliced onions will actualy transform in to lasagne sheets if you springle them with cheese or something?

Adding cheese to bechamel makes it a cheese sauce. Bechamel does not have cheee; it’s just a white sauce. The cheese on lasagne is added on top, the sauce is bechamel sauce not cheese sauce.

You’re not making lasagne and neither did your mum.

Can DH get lasagne sheets on the way home @Brainfogtothemax

Can’t your husband bring lasagne sheets home from work with him?

Why does this need to be eaten today? Can you make something else for tonight, use the lasagne sheets your husband brings home to assemble it later and then cook it tomorrow?

The mince with mash on top is a cottage pie.

Use the bechamel sauce which isn't bechamel sauce and pour it over some macaroni or other shaped pasta to make "random shaped pasta" cheese.

Never have I gotten so invested in a thread so quickly.

I can understand your mental block OP. I would have Lasagne with a few chips (or other potatoes) but I wouldn't have pasta bake with them, even if the only difference is that the pasta is twirly rather than flat!

All the big talking points today.

I'm really wanting carbs for tea now...

this thread is confusing 😂

Really op, you boiled potatoes whilst making a lasagna but the replies are confusing you... ok then 🤣🤣

I really don’t know at this point, everything I thought about lasagna since my childhood is a lie, Dh has never queried the boiled potatoes or cheese sauce though
I’m ringing my mum

If you happened to have some spare leeks OP, you could slice them open lengthways, blanch them and then use the slices instead of the missing lasagne. I am given to understand this is a surprisingly successful dupe.

It would also help to address the absence of vegetables on the plate, you vitamin dodger you.

Me too, this is the sort of conversation that I have in my head all the time to be honest.

Ragu con patatas. Forget about the pasta. Plenty of cheese please.

Use the potatoes to make gnocchi and have a gnocchi bolognaise bake?

There is no difference. Lasagne is a pasta dish.
The only 'difference' between lasagne and the other pasta dishes people are referring to is the shape of the pasta. In lasagne the pasta is flat, in other dishes it may be different shapes, but if you are happy to serve potatoes when the pasta is flat, why not when it is fusilli shaped or tube shaped or bow shaped etc...?

Mash the potatoes with butter salt and pepper and then freeze them for another time.
Mix your Bolognese mince with cooked pasta of any shape put it into a baking dish top with your cheese sauce and a sprinkle of grated cheese and bake.
Nothing wasted.

This thread is very odd. I've never heard of a single living soul who eats lasagne with boiled potatoes. I think the addition of chips to lasagne is also a bit strange, though it happens often in the UK (nowhere else I've ever lived, though).

However, the very oddest thing about the thread is not the pasta + potato combination, but your insistence that it's fine to have boiled potatoes with lasagne but not with any other pasta dish. What, in your opinion, is the actual difference between the pasta in lasagne and any other sort of pasta? Only the shape is different.

This thread is funny. I think OP is bored 😂

as it seems you’ve made a cheese sauce - can’t you add these to the potatoes and then either freeze (yes you can freeze) or put in fridge for a yummy cheese carby dinner tomorrow. Then pasta and mince = bolognaise.

OR

mash the pots - add on top of the mince for a cottage pie. Freeze the cheese sauce for another time or cook some pasta and do a mac and cheese for tomorrow. Then you have two dinners.

you seem to not want to change the original plan - yet you can’t do the original plan 😂

This is a superb suggestion

Surely if you're muttering in Italian you'd call it lasagne?

I cba walking to the shop, I’m certainly not going to these lengths!

You call it dinner, and given that you don't sound to be very well they should just he grateful you went to the effort of making anything at all and saved your DH the effort.