Does anyone else hate lasagna?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My granny immigrated from Italy and makes it with ricotta, not bechemal. Pretty sure it varies region to region.

Italians don't have "grannys" - they have nonnas. Your Italian card is revoked.

[Anonymous]

Op, where are your friends from? I don’t think I had lasagna until the college dining hall and nobody I knew growing up served it at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've made several different variations. A few times, I've subbed eggplant or zucchini for the pasta, alfredo or pesto for marinara, seafood for the meat. I always use ricotta, sometimes I've used cheddar or swiss instead of mozzarella, but if I use mozzarella, it's the soft fresh slice-it-up ball variety.

This is key. The "standard" lasagna sucks. Change it up and it is often delicious.

[Anonymous]

I didn't know this was possible.

[Anonymous]

Yep. Gross

[Anonymous]

I love it! But I don't eat it very often so when I have it (only homemade) I find it delicious and end up way overeating. I wouldn't serve it at a dinner party unless it was a soccer team gathering or something along those lines- fairly inexpensive for a big crowd.

[Anonymous]

I can’t stand it but I can’t eat it every week. It’s way to heavy.

[Anonymous]

I love it. Have you had good lasagna?

My dad makes awesome vegetarian lasagna. He makes homemade tomato sauce with high-quality ingredients (San Marzano tomatoes are a must, of course) and a béchamel sauce for it. When there's time, he also makes the lasagna noodles from scratch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op, where are your friends from? I don’t think I had lasagna until the college dining hall and nobody I knew growing up served it at home.

It's not standard American fare outside of places with the influence of Italian immigrants. Noodles in our family meant buttered noodles, or maybe Mac and Cheese. But not lasagna/red sauce Italian, with the exception of maybe spaghetti once in a while.

[Anonymous]

I only like my lasagna, made properly with Bechamel sauce and not gobs of nasty mozarella and ricotta-a la trailer trash style like most Americans make it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I only like my lasagna, made properly with Bechamel sauce and not gobs of nasty mozarella and ricotta-a la trailer trash style like most Americans make it

I agree. Americans take a great dish and completely bastardize it into.something awful.

I make mine with a homemade beef and pork ragu, bechamel, and I buy fresh lasagne noodles, not that nasty dry crap from a box. My modification from the traditional is I add a large amount of mushrooms and spinach that is cooked down and sometimes I add a thin layer of eggplant that has the water drawn out. Never any mozarella to croak on me ricotta. Just some fresh parmesan on top.

I don't make it that often because it takes a long time.

[Anonymous]

Last time I made lasagna I put the noodles in a roasting pan filled with hot water for 30 minutes. This was a really easy way to pre-cook the pasta sheets (not the no bake kind- the long strips that you usually have to boil) so they finished cooking while baking.

[Anonymous]

I dislike any kind of pasta and Italian food in general.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I only like my lasagna, made properly with Bechamel sauce and not gobs of nasty mozarella and ricotta-a la trailer trash style like most Americans make it

I agree. Americans take a great dish and completely bastardize it into.something awful.

I make mine with a homemade beef and pork ragu, bechamel, and I buy fresh lasagne noodles, not that nasty dry crap from a box. My modification from the traditional is I add a large amount of mushrooms and spinach that is cooked down and sometimes I add a thin layer of eggplant that has the water drawn out. Never any mozarella to croak on me ricotta. Just some fresh parmesan on top.

I don't make it that often because it takes a long time.

You are talking about making lasagne, not lasagna. Lasagna is the bastsrd child of lasagne.

[Anonymous]

Lasagna is a pain to make the right way. Mostly I eat frozen.