On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 20:41:41 -0000 (UTC), Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>On Thu 29 Mar 2018 12:33:19p, told us...
>
>> On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 15:27:51 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>>
>>>Regular homemade lasagna is one of my favorite meals and when I
>>>make it (not in about 3 years now, sadly) I make it large.
>>>Completely tops off a 9X13 baking dish and also a full bread dish.
>>
>> Been a while for me as well, no one here usually to help eat it,
>> and MY way makes enough to stuff the freezer.
>>
>> I start with a turkey-sized baking tray. You can imagine what it
>> takes to get that near full. I add sliced hard-boiled eggs on one
>> layer, green stuffed olives on another.
>>
>
>I hope you're joking! :-))
>
>Since none of our friends don't care much for lasagne, we scaled our
>recipe down from our deep 9x13 pan to a 4" deep 9x9 pan.
>
>We also modifed our recipe and have substituted cottage cheese for
>ricotta. We used to use full-fat ricotta that was on the dry side,
>but now is a bit grainy, and too liquidy. We always make a meat
>sauce that has a modest amount of meat in it. We also brown and
>season a much larger quantity of meat to form it's own layer. Start
>to finish...
>
>A thin layer of sauce, a layer of noodles, a layer of cottage mixed
>with parmesan and parsley, a layer of noodles, a layer of the seasone
>beef, another layer of the cottage cheese mixture, a thin layer of
>sauce, a layer of noodles, a final layer of cottage cheese mixture,
>and a final layer of noodles, a very this layer of sauce, ending with
>a generous sprikling of parmesan/romano. Finally baking covered with
>foil at 350°F. for 45 minutes.
>
>If we're not make a separate layer of seasoned meat, we substitute
>crisply fried eggplant slices.
>
>When done we cool to room temperature, then refrigerate. When ready
>to serve, we reheat uncovered until bubbly. We serve each portion in
>a small pool of sauce. The remainder is cut and wrapped and sealed
>well and freeze all portions individually.

I make it in a bread loaf pan. It still makes two hefty meals. When
you've got all the stuff on hand it doesn't take any time at all to
put a lasagna together.
Janet US