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 🤷🏻‍♀️

Lasagna does have cheese in it but they use ricotta, mozzarella and Parmesan not just normal bog standard cheese. The white sauce isn’t made with any cheese at all otherwise it changes from béchamel sauce to a cheese sauce and they are two different things. But if your ragù is rich enough then you won’t need the cheese. I’m baffled how you can think potatoes with lasagna is perfectly normal but the idea of putting them with any other type of pasta dish is weird.

You do realise lasagne is a pasta dish, don’t you? 😂

I know but then she's going to pour cheese sauce all over it... I can't with this thread 🤣🤣 I've right got the giggles now.

Now looking at the sad, dry boiled potatoes in the pan, how do I make it into mash as they are cold and the butter won’t melt or mash into it?

What a shit day 😂

That’s still not lasagne. Lasagne is made with bechamel sauce. You’re making cheese sauce. They are different things.

I add loads of stuff to food which “shouldn’t” go in because we like it that way, but at least I know I’m doing it and I know what changes I’m making.
Make what you want but know the difference. You haven’t made bechamel white sauce. You’ve made cheese sauce. Lasagne doesn’t have cheese sauce so that’s something your family does differently because of taste preference.

Why did you boil the potatoes 3 hours before you were going to be eating them anyway?? 😭

You keep saying this as though lasagne is different from pasta. Lasagne literally is pasta. Lasagne is a pasta dish.

Tattie scones for tomorrow's breakfast

Seriously? Can I ask why lasagne sheets and boiled potatoes is OK but a different pasta shape and mash is weird?

Reheat them in whatever way you were presumably planning to before serving them. Given you boiled them hours before you needed them.

If you have aubergine or courgette you could make strips from them .

They’d have been a lot sadder and colder when you served them up in 4 hours time for dinner next to a lasagne which was your original plan 😂

This is horrific for you

I can sympathise, I was brought up eating shepherds pie regularly,, loved it, my mum made a fantastic shepherds pie

Only in adulthood did she disclose she didnt know that a sheperds pie was meant to have lamb mince in it.

All those years I was eating a cottage pie.

There was no childline to ring in those days either so I had no one to talk to about it.

Fuck knows why I don’t think we will ever get to the bottom of that one we will be here until next January trying to figure that out.

Am i thr only one wondering why you have boiled the spuds before the lasagne is in the oven?

I’m loving this thread, it really makes me laugh that we all have such strong but utterly different ideas of what goes together. My lasagne it most definitely does not have cheese inside, it has fresh parmesan on top to give a lovely crunchy top. When I have guests I serve with a fresh green salad and home made garlic flatbread because that’s “proper”. But when we’re alone we have it with frozen peas, because that’s what I had growing up.

Are they raw?

Sprinkling cheese on top of a lasagne doesn’t stop it being bechamel. A cheese sauce has cheese mixed into it. The cheese is incorporated into the sauce itself. What PP describes is a bechamel used to top the lasagne and a final layer of grated cheese which does not mix into the sauce, but melts/crusts on top.

Thats like saying the bechamel stops being a bechamel when you layer it on top of the mince sauce, because it’s now contaminated with mince and tomato’s.

And it is THE pasta bake, the original one.

um… I think you’re confused. The OP has made a cheese sauce. She put cheese into the sauce and melted it in, as a cheese sauce. Not a bechamel. Exactly as you’ve described so I’m really not sure what your point is?

What did your Mum suggest?

Milk then mash. Et voila.

No, OP has clarified that she puts cheese into the sauce as well as on top. Heathen.

You and the post you have quoted are agreeing with each other. Not sure why you have quoted. The OP clearly said she adds cheese to the bechemel as well as on top. So your quoted PP is right as you are.

no I’ve asked similar. OP is lamenting the spuds being so soggy and cold like that wasn’t always going to happen ? 😭