Lasagne...

ah yes you can’t bate a jar of dolmio

I had one last night . Alright, it was and M&S Best Lasagne Ever but I must say it was very nice.

A mates brother invited them all round for dinner one Sunday afternoon, and served them up his best Carrols pre packed lasagne.

Main thing is loads and loads and loads of bechamel , so layer of meat ,bechamel ,pasta , repeat , repeat, repeat .

A little white wine in the bechamel , light on the cheese .. until you get to the top ,

Under no circumstances should you be able to just cut a slice out when it's cooked , lots of sauce ,

ok, the OP gets a free pass as the GF is Italian, otherwise it'd be getting close to cultural appropriation, especially when M&S are involved.

Shepherd's pie not good enough for you???

* These comments won't age well if thread moved to Food forum

I think you did too

Aldi tomato and herb sauce or dolmio

Neven Maguire's recipe FTW.

Discovered during lockdown, and I'll never go back.

Takes the guts of a full day to make, but I fill the freezer and get months out of it.

Lasagna = singular. Lasagne = plural.

Dunno why this isn't in the food forum, but anyway. A tablespoon of fennel seeds in with the mince when you're browning it really lifts the entire dish. And anyone who skips the nutmeg in their bechemel should be fired into the sun. That goes double for anyone using jarred sauce.

It appears so. I can see the OP post repeated and the rest merged in.

Although it would have been an interesting experiment to see how the threads evolved differently!

And then the next question - what to drink with it. I expect beer and red wine will have support :)

But I suggest should be an Italian beer or Italian red wine (Chianti, Montepulciano, Nero d'Avola, Primitivo) or perhaps a red in the Italian style brought to Australia from Italy such as a Cabernet-Shiraz.

You know how we tend to call "lasagne al forno " lasagna ?

Does any one have a recipe for a lasagna not " al forno "

I think I had it once as a kid in an Italian restauran,t prob 40 years ago ... First time ever having lasagne at all , I remember it was done with lasagna verdi .. gawd it was good ...

Strange what sticks in your head