Can I have your definitive lasagne recipe please

[MilkNoSugarAndAShotofWhisky]

I really want some lasagne but am pretty crap at it... relatively ok cook but lasagne throws me :o

And I NEED some lasagne in my life right now :o

Go to Tesco
Buy lasagne
Put in the oven.

I am craving this like mad at the moment and like hell as I making it For a ready meal, it's actually pretty good. But that's no help. And after the thread about Workfare I may have to give up this bad habit. Which makes me very sad. I don't know how sainsburys compare.

Use the one from Carrier's Kitchen - it's half pork and beef.

I always add dried mustard (1tsp +) and fresh nutmeg to the white sauce. Give it a bit of a bite. And now I stir in half the cheese to the sauce and sprinkle the rest. Lots of good red wine in the meat sauce and leave it to marinate for a day.

Sweat off onions garlic paste and celery in oil - takes about 10 mins on a low heat. Add minced beef and turn up heat breaking it up as it cooks with a wooden spoon, drain off excess fat once it has cooked.

Big squirt of tomato puree, pasta and stock plus some sugar to balance out the acidity in the tomatoes.

Once in has simmered away for a while add some milk - let it simmer some more.

Blitz gently with a stick blender once it is cooked - I used to do this when ds was little to disguise the onions but still do it as it looks nicer and force of habit

Bit of butter melted in a pan and add flour to make the sauce - cook it out and add the milk slowly, stirring all the while. Add some cheese and adjust with milk until you get the thickness you desire

I would need to try to find the recipe but I make a great veggie lasagne with artichoke hearts, spinach, pesto and goats's cheese...

It was from the BBC Good Food magazine around 1993 but still going strong here

Sweat a couple of cloves of garlic and a chopped onion in some olive oil,
add low fat minced beef (otherwise its really fatty),
add a couple of tins of tomato or passatta, and some italian seasoning
and a couple of glasses of red wine (and drink one, you cook better when relaxed)
Make a roux with butter and flour, then add the milk to make a white sauce (loads of easy white sauce recipes on the internet)
The layers go :meat, lasgne, white sauce, meat, lasgne, white sauce and finish off with some cheese.
Bake in oven for about 40 mins.

Mine is very similar to Pandygirl

• Don't preheat the oven....
• Bolognese sauce element made with plenty of passata, 1lb good quality minced beef and cooked long and slow so that everything is nicely tender. It should be more liquid than you would use as a straight pasta sauce so that the 'no precooking required' uncooked pasta sheets have something to absorb. If you're using 2 x cans chopped tomato, 2/3 fill one of the cans with water and add it to the sauce.
• Plenty (well over a pint) of bechamel sauce, flavoured with a little strong cheddar cheese, mustard and nutmeg
• Once layered up, make sure the top layer is completely covered in plenty of bechamel sauce before being sprinkled with parmesan. Spread it around, especially to the corners, No pasta should be showing or it'll end up dry and crispy.
• Now heat the oven and leave the assembled lasagne on one side for 15-20 mins so that the pasta has chance to start softening and absorbing sauce. I find this stops the corners curling up
• Bake at about 170C-180C for 40-45 mins

This one is a bit of work, but definitely lives up to its slightly pretentious name:

allrecipes.com/recipe/worlds-best-lasagna/