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 🤷🏻‍♀️

Send your DH or DS to the shop?

Just mash the spuds (use the microwave or oven to warm them if they're too cold now) and have them with the mince mixture you've made. You don't need pasta AND potatoes in the same meal, that's far too much carbohydrate.

Turn the pan back on?

Have you ever cooked anything before?

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Maybe you could contact their helpline for some support for your potatoes?

Just chuck the mince over the potatoes and call them dirty spuds

What do you need potatoes for with lasagne? They don’t go in there…

just mix pasta with the ragu and top with the bechamel and bake it.

Every now and then thread annoys me nearly as much as the bloody Bosworth one. This one is very close to that list.

I found myself bored of pasta completely a while ago and a few times made a ragu and cheese sauce which I then layered on top of very crispy new potatoes roasted with rosemary and garlic, then gave it a quick grill. It was really lovely.

I’ve never heard of lasagna with potatoes?!! But yeah just stick the potatoes on top and do cottage pie.

I have always made lasagne using cheese sauce and also sprinkled cheese over the top for the last 5/10 mins of cooking. I have never served potatoes with it although sometimes we will have garlic bread. Also i have always called my shepherds pie 'shepherds' pie although it is made using beef mince not lamb and is technically a 'cottage' pie. I really cant bring myself to care that i might be doing it wrong at this point in my life. Both dishes are super tasty so.........

Cant you make potatoes into mash & serve with the gloop?
or make mash , civer in fridge & skittle fry in patties tomorrow?
Cut into chunks & intersperse with gloop?

OK I've read all the OP's posts and now I feel like I've smoked something illegal. WTF is going on?
Boiled potatoes with lasagne but no leafy greens because it's winter??????

Its the Bridge of Sighs for her. No mistake

Add some milk, leave that to heat then mash it.
Don't you add any fluid like milk or cream to mash?

I'll just leave this here....

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/11/chicken-lasagne-and-boiled-potatoes-theresa-mays-dismal-menu

Are you an inexperienced cook @Brainfogtothemax ?
You could crush the potatoes and put them on top of the meat sauce, brush with melted butter or oil and they will crisp up nicely in the oven to give a crispy golden topping. Serve with a vegetable of your choice.

Use the cheese sauce with macaroni or other pasta shape for tomorrow's dinner.

Strange thread, I'm wondering if the OP has ever cooked a meal before? The concept of adding potatoes to lasagne is bizarre.

Another one for using home made pancakes. Have used them before with lasagna filling and filled the pancakes instead of canaloni. Same white sauce & some cheese spread over the top and then baked, yum yum.

This entire thread has made me laugh out loud, but in a much more wholesome way than most of the stuff on AIBU. Comedy gold OP. It’s only a matter of time (or maybe has already happened) before somebody says “It all goes down the same way in any case”.

Also grilling a lasagna... surely it goes in the oven?

Ricotta, mozzarella, parmesan are just bog standard cheeses in Italy

When the Italian wants to use a 'fancy cheese', they reach for the Black Bomber or smoked double gloucester. Or even Lild mild cheddar. They love the stuff.

Cook your alternative pasta shapes, stir through your meat sauce, place in a baking dish then pour your cheese sauce over and bake in the oven.

Let the potatoes go cold, stick them in the fridge. Fry them another day and serve with some crispy bacon.

Now you have two dinners instead of one!

Op just freeze the potatoes for another day they’re unnecessary tubers!

No veg. It's winter.

But the potatoes were always going to be cold if you cooked them several hours in advance?

I genuinely don't think I've ever read anything and insane as defending lasagna with boiled potatoes whilst insisting that pasta with them is weird, they are both blinking pasta dishes just different shapes 😆 I genuinely felt this was a wind up but you're extremely insistent it's not @Brainfogtothemax . Fwiw I add cheese to my white sauce (making it a cheese sauce, not bechamel, cos you know, cheese) when I make lasagna cos it's way tastier. And you need to reheat the potatoes in the microwave for a bit then you can mash them fine 👌🏻