pastaless lasagne!

vixtress

this evening i made a lovely bottom of fridge veg sauce & cheese sauce only realise i had no lasagne!! :rolleyes: i remembered that when i was a child my mother used to love lasagne but my dad hate pasta so she always made it with pancakes, i did it this way tonight and it was delicious! i am so pleased up until 3 months ago i would have binned the lot and had toast. i now had 4 meals for this evening and 2 lunches for me to take to work;
i am loving this :beer:

chickadee

You can also do it with fajitas, which, I suppose are a lot like pancakes. I went to a cookery demonstration recently and she made a Mexican Lasagne using fajitas and lots of peppers and tomatoes. She used blobs of soft cheese instead of a cheese sauce and sprinkled grated cheese on top. It was yummy!

RacyRed

Fantastic Idea!

I've got visions now of pancake/fajita alternatives to cannelloni. YUM!

chardonnay_2

I WAS JUST GOING TO POST ABOUT (oops caps) using tortilla wraps. racy when you make cannelloni how do you do it. we bought some cannelonni shells from aldi and were planning to stuff them with meat sauce but what do you to the top of the pasta - white sauce + cheese like lasagne?

Quasar

When you think about it, the only thing that makes any pasta dish tasty and worth eating is the sauce/filling - or topping in the case of pizza. OK good flour makes good pasta in itself, but it's what you dress it with that makes the dish, really.

I often make some nice bolognese sauce, or even pommarola sauce, and then just dunk some wholemeal bread in it, or I add some diced tofu a bit before it's ready and let it finish cooking like that. Yummy!

Or use potatoes instead of pasta.

chardonnay_2

quasar could you answer my cannelloni question please?

Debt_Free_Chick

And home made pasta is easy, if a little time consuming (as you have to keep rolling & folding the pasta until its smooth). A pasta machine is not essential, but certainly takes out some of the elbow grease needed for rolling!

hilstep2000

I've done i with pancakes before, tastes delicious! When I went to Venice a few years ago, my p artner ordered lasagne in a restaurant. When it came, all the lasagne sheets were on the bottom, and the meat and bechemal sauce were plonked on the top (like spaghetti bolognaise!) He said it tasted fine!

hilstep2000

I've done it with pancakes before, tastes delicious! When I went to Venice a few years ago, my partner ordered lasagne in a restaurant. When it came, all the lasagne sheets were on the bottom, and the meat and bechemal sauce were plonked on the top (like spaghetti bolognaise!) He said it tasted fine!:rotfl:

Penelope_Penguin

Hi, I roll up pancakes with the bolognaise sauce inside. Place into an oven dish. White sauce and grated parmesan on top and bake. That way, each person gets a *rolled pancake* and it looks lovely on the plate.

Penny. x

thriftlady_2

Sliced potatoes work too, although not as quick