My first Lasagna

Thanks Iman for sending me this recipe! The lasagna was definitely a lot of work, but it was worth it! I made the sauce on Friday but didn't get around to putting the pasta together until tonight. In any case, the recipe suggested letting the sauce sit overnight makes it better. The recipe called for ground beef, sweet italian sausage, tomato sauce, tomato paste, crushed tomatoes, parsley...and ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese, parmesan cheese (which we couldn't find at the supermarket and got the Italian blend of cheese instead).

The sauce was good enough to be saved for regular pasta! But since we soaked the entire box (20) of lasagna pasta rather than just the 12 the recipe wanted, I ended using all the sauce and cheese to make 2 batches of lasagna. My version had 3 layers of the noodle with 4 noodle per layer, rather than the 2 layers of 6 noodles. Nonetheless, turned out great!


Before putting the lasagna into the oven...actually the picture above is the smaller version which I had frozen away for future consumption. The bigger batch looked the same though.


The big batch of lasagna out of the oven! It smelled authentic, and definitely better than most of the lasagnas I've had at supposedly authentic Italian places!


Smaller piece of lasagna served with Texas Toast. Surprisingly, my mom liked it as well! I can't wait to make this again when Meanie comes back! I could get bitter if people criticize my cooking...i.e. if they say it's too salty, I'll tell them to make it next time then. Kind of bad habit, but I am defensive about my creations!