World's Most Complicated Lasagna

baconsmom

I'm watching Julia Child, and she went all French on lasagna. Fresh tomato sauce, a bechamel, boiling all the noodles first, a giant platter of mise-en-place veggies and cheeses.

Mine is just a way to use up the last of the vat of sauce I make and whatever sausages are still in the house. So here's a poll, because I'm bored:

MinM

You need to add a fourth category for me. "I don't know because my H does this isht."

I think his depends...Sometimes he get s bug up his rear and is all ohmygod, I have to make what i just saw them make on food network. And then other times, it's like, huh, what have we got? I think it is usually the former, not the later.

mrsconn23

I've never made lasagna.  It's something my mom does and when she does, she makes several pans and gives them to us.   My mom makes the best lasagna ever.

baconsmom

My mom always claimed lasagna was super complicated, but I have since learned that my mother doesn't actually know how to cook efficiently, so she's not to be trusted. 

Though it does help her be super-impressed with me when I do simple things. She came to visit in October one year and raved about my corn chowder, which is a 10-minute soup. (Well, it simmers for longer, but you just throw sht in a pot.) I have chosen not to disillusion her. 

hmonkey

my mom made a super complicated lasagna, but i blame it on a wide variety of factors: never having made it before, not knowing a lot of white people she can ask, not wanting to waster food so she follows the recipe, etc. 

korean food? sure, she can make anything from scratch, including grow and grind the wheat into flour.  white people food?  not so much.

i should show her the no boil method.

6fsn

I make more than one kind.  The tomato based one is basic, but I make several at once so it takes some time that makes it a little more than just a basic casserole.  I do one where I dump together the cheese, spices, ground turkey, and broccoli.  That gets rolled into the noodles, covered, and baked. That is certainly basic. 

I do a seafood lasagna that is definitely gourmet.

NOLABridesmaid

H, that reminds me of one of my students. He had me laughing telling me how he keeps asking his mom to make white people food, and she just keeps making Mexican food.

hmonkey

ha -- awesome!

my parents lived in queens when they first moved to the us.  my dad would pass a pizzeria when he went to work, and he told me that it took him a long time to work up the nerve to try a slice.  (in korea, red sauce is super hot.  like habanero ghost chili hot.)

TheDuckis

I made lasagna for the first time in my life 2 weeks ago, and was shocked by how easy it was. It might go into regular rotation.

+candi+

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_wedding-woes_worlds-complicated-lasagna?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:47Discussion:7a74e5e6-57fa-492d-a645-8f486a62822cPost:18e072ee-0016-42f8-90c2-830d9ea021f0">Re: World's Most Complicated Lasagna</a>:
[QUOTE]ha -- awesome! my parents lived in queens when they first moved to the us.  my dad would pass a pizzeria when he went to work, and he told me that it took him a long time to work up the nerve to try a slice.  (in korea, red sauce is super hot.  like habanero ghost chili hot.)
Posted by hmonkey[/QUOTE]

<div>that is freaking adorable</div>

Callmebetty

Lasagna with béchamel instead of ricotta = AWESOME.  

Butter Cookie

Lasagna is one of those foods that alludes me. Manicotti? Sure. Lasagna? ::cue fear and panic:::

But probably because I've only made it a few times and never actuallly looked at a recipe.

"This looks right." <<<that is me