Serene Vannoy wrote:
> Made lasagne by my mom's recipe, except my partner's mom always used
> breakfast sausage (I know, weird) so I went with that this time. I made
> three pans of the stuff, and for the first one, I forgot the mozzarella,
> but it was still excellent, and the kid couldn't get enough.
>
> Pics:
>
> http://serenepages.org/images/blog/lasagne/lasagne.jpg
>
> http://serenepages.org/images/blog/lasagne/closeup.jpg
>
> Serene
>

Serene - You have no idea how much I envy you at the moment. I'm looking
at your pics while chomping on some cruddy potato chips and drooling. I
won't submit my weakness includes crying on my knees... <sob>, but that
sure looks pretty good. :-)

Thanks for the post,

Bob

> Serene Vannoy wrote:
>> Made lasagne by my mom's recipe, except my partner's mom always used
>> breakfast sausage (I know, weird) so I went with that this time. I made
>> three pans of the stuff, and for the first one, I forgot the mozzarella,
>> but it was still excellent, and the kid couldn't get enough.
>>
>> Pics:
>>
>> http://serenepages.org/images/blog/lasagne/lasagne.jpg
>>
>> http://serenepages.org/images/blog/lasagne/closeup.jpg
>>
Looks okay in the pictures but I know I wouldn't like breakfast sausage
lasagna... I think it's good you didn't have the cheese, would have wasted
good ricotta, mozz, and parm with that breakfast sausage... I can't even
imagine breakfast sausage with pasta, and it's gotta really suck with tomato
sauce. Couldn't you save the lasagna pasta until you got to the store? I
woulda fried up the breakfast sausage to go with eggs and/or pancakes, or
even just white bread toast... breakfast sausage doesn't go with wholewheat,
rye bread, pumpernickle... no other bread but cheap wonder style packaged
white... okay, I take that back, breakfast sausage might not be bad with
cinnamon raisin bread, probably would be really good with cinnamon raison
french toast. But breakfast sausage lasagna, blech, TIAD! If all I had
were breakfast sausage and had an unrelenting urge for lasagna I'd omit the
meat, would have been better dicing in some veggies, frozen broccoli/spinach
would work fine.

I once got invited to a neighbors house for dinner, they asked if I liked
lasagna, I said I love it. When I got there I smelled something foul,
nothing like lasagna cooking. When it was served I stared at it
skeptically, and the smell... Well I took one little bite and just stared
at my plate trying to figure what it was and a way out of this. She asked
if I liked her turkey lasagna. Ulp! Two minutes later I excused myself to
the terlit and then went home saying I was feeling ill. I never accepted an
invite to dinner there again but we remained good friends. That couple knew
how to serve up a good evening of cocktails, both were big time boozers and
always had a full monty bar... it was much better my inviting them to eat.
I guess they weren't as fussy about what they drank as I am about what I
eat, they'd drink anything over 80 proof. And they were real party animals,
had a big house with a huge pool in back, could easily accomodate a hundred
guests. There were many times I went to their pool parties and had a great
time drinking up a storm and ogling all the bikinis but they had totally
forgotten the food, nothing to eat, not even a stale pretzel. I shoulda
realized that they weren't into food, whenever I'd look in their fridge all
it contained were liquids. And strangely they had a huge built in grill
near the pool but I never remember it being lit. Only the people were lit.

Tube steak works better in lasagna than breakfast sausage or turkey. And
there's no rule that lasagna has to contain sausage, plain browned ground
beef works... I've made delicious lasagna without pasta, with corn
tortillas, chili, and pepper jack cheese. Btw, pasta was not invented by
the Chinese or the Italians, the Maya invented pasta, the corn tortilla is
indeed the oldest pasta... The maya even beat the Jews, tortillas are far
older than matzo. The guineas don't hardly count in the noodle evolution...
the only thing they're credited with as far as pasta is relatively recent,
the extruded noodle... the 'talians are good mechanically, they invented
hundreds of extruded pasta shapes, they even invented spaghettiOs. I'm sure
the Jews invented the kreplach before the Chinese invented the wonton... but
long before came the burrito! LOL