Lasagna Recipes

All the recipes i'm coming across are well, a bit ridiculous.

Anyone have a fav simple and quick recipe that doesn't involve buying up half the supermarket?

Mmmmmm, lasagna

You wanna make the sauce yourself or use a jar?

EDIT: I buy the jars of white sauce.
Get 2 onions, 1 clove garlic, 1.5lbs of mince, 2/3 tins of chopped tomatoes, pasta sheets, white sauce and red cheddar cheese. (Dried spices like oregano or mixed italian go well)

Chop and fry onions in large pot on medium heat in olive oil, add garlic, when the onions are see through add your tins of tomatoes and spices (and red wine if you have any). Let it simmer gently water evaporating. When its nearly think enough to be sauce like fry mince in frying pan till grey and throw into sauce. Let simmer for about 5-10 mins so the mince and sauce mix (add water if sauce gets too thick).

Now take off heat and if you want leave sit to cool down (its nicer when it's "set").

Put a layer of pasta sheets in a lasagne dish, cover with white sauce then grate a small bit of cheese. Add a layer of mince/sauce. Make another pasta layer with cheese and white sauce, then mince layer. So on until the dish has about 1/2 inch left. Put final pasta layer on top with white sauce and lots of cheese. Cook at 200C for 15mins or until cheese on top is cooked.

Whip it out, eat what you want and freeze the rest in Tupperware container then microwave when needed.

You can use beer as a basis for your sauce aswell, just takes longer to evaporate the liquid off the sauce. You cook it once and get multiple servings, so although it takes a while to make initially, you can have 3-4 servings ready that take only 4-5mins to microwave from frozen.

Enjoy!

why thank you Tip-Top!

I'm Italian so I absolutely LOVE Lasagna! I love it!

and of course.. Pizza Pie! I could live off of Pizza pie.


I bet I could come up with some really good Pizza pie recipes.

in fact, I think I'm going to try one out today. I mean, come up with a recipe.


Thanks buddy!


peace.

tip top toker said:

All the recipes i'm coming across are well, a bit ridiculous.

Anyone have a fav simple and quick recipe that doesn't involve buying up half the supermarket?

Mmmmmm, lasagna

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Just for you sir.. and you only!

http://www.food.com/recipe/quick-pot-lasagna-65360

check that out.. its short and simple IMO. Def. more simple than what you've been looking at probably.

there ya go!

peace.

Cheers for those recipes Haha, think being stoned just made it all seemingly more daunting than it is. Essentially make some bolognese and chuck it with pasta sheets Think i saw a list of ten hundred different ingredients and thought wowzers. Just back from the shop and saw they do a bolognese kit which is a jar of the ragu and a ar of the cheese sauce, very handy, i'll make it at some point

Have to say as a brit i get a bit confused when americans start talking about coloured cheddars. I grew up not an hour from cheddar, cheddar is cheddar is well, nowadays most isn't, where on earth did unpasteurized cheese disappear to!

Im not American, Im Irish, lol. We have red and white cheddar here, same as England?

Well i know you can buy coloured cheddar, and that it's utter shite, normally pre-grated, but cheddar for me has always been cheddar, just a natural normal cheese. I've certainly not had white cheddar in england before. Was just wondering if it was anything to do with product origin stuff, but doesn't seem so. What can i say, i smoke and start questioning everything is see

Harrekin said:

Im not American, Im Irish, lol. We have red and white cheddar here, same as England?

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im maybe thinking you mean red leicester?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Leicester

reading arou/nd it sounds like red and white cheddar are different in taste, wikipedia that useful adn 100% acurate place that it is states that the colour in the uk is just aesthetic.

tip top toker said:

reading arou/nd it sounds like red and white cheddar are different in taste, wikipedia that useful adn 100% acurate place that it is states that the colour in the uk is just aesthetic.

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see the red leicester link, very similiar taste i buy both regularly and the red leicester is very close to taste as normal cheddar

dava said:

see the red leicester link, very similiar taste i buy both regularly and the red leicester is very close to taste as normal cheddar

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I find good red Leicester to be very discernible from a real cheddar (once you start dipping into supermarket shelf cheeses all bets are off it all starts to taste of the same enhancements and whatnot

I got a couple of recipes so luckily this isn't derailing onto cheese too disastrously

i cant class myself a connesieur of cheese but for normal cheddar its cathedral city

PAH, horrible horrible stuff. It's not matured cheddar, it's chemically matured. You bite it and you get an instant overload of "mature" and then 10 seconds later you can't taste anything. I have worked as a cheesemonger for many years in the past, largely with unpasteurized cheese, the difference between that and lovely government standards healthy safe cheese is astounding.

Due to money though, these days i can't even afford cathedral city let alone good stuff

tip top toker said:

PAH, horrible horrible stuff. It's not matured cheddar, it's chemically matured. You bite it and you get an instant overload of "mature" and then 10 seconds later you can't taste anything. I have worked as a cheesemonger for many years in the past, largely with unpasteurized cheese, the difference between that and lovely government standards healthy safe cheese is astounding.

Due to money though, these days i can't even afford cathedral city let alone good stuff

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lol i get good local made cheese when in the french alps! i like cheese infused with herbs though!