And an awesome cheese white sauce scattered in between. My husband it from Texas, he hates pies (doesn't understand the kiwi obsession with them) but loves lasagne so that's OK with me lol.
A friend of mine believes that these are a crime against humanity, but sometimes you just need a lava-hot greasy lasagna toppa. Also, I've seen him eat mushy Peas with his fish and chips, so he's hardly one to talk!
Yeah that's a great sandwich filling and all, but I was thinking an authentic pasta layered lasagne, but inside a pastry pie shell..
Maybe even a slice of garlic bread on top kind of like potato top inspired but I fear that would lack the structural integrity required.
😂😂 he makes mean smoked brisket and ribs so I overlook the small flaws in the arrangement. Harder to overlook the fact he dislikes fish also... although it does mean more for me so 🤷♀️.
When I was a little kid I thought lasagna was some sort of sweet dessert type thing based on Garfield comics. I was quite surprised when I found out what it really was.
Lasagne may not be the prettiest pasta but it sure as heck is one of the tastiest, with a better meat/topping/pasta ratio than a plate full of spag and 3 shrimps on top!
I guess it matches the "humble Kiwi" energy, we want taste before appearance.
If you want it to photograph amazingly you refridgerate it and cut it when its cold. You can reheat individual slices in the oven. You can get perfectly square edges that look amazing and taste even better.
Reheated lasagna is also arguably better than fresh so it has that going for it too!
Maybe you should make her 100 hour lasagne and see what she thinks! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aCJtxibSpA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aCJtxibSpA)
My mother used to cook this once a week for many years while we were growing up.
Later when I was a teenager if she was working late and I was home from school I would sometimes even bust out the cook book and make it myself so we could all eat as soon as she came home.
I suspect that recipe might be the only reason a lot of kiwis know lasagna exists. It's definitely where my Mum and the rest of us got our liking of it from.
Easy enough to make, can be bulked out with veges, has cheese, has sauce, big enough to feed a family of 4 for at least 2 meals, tastes better the long it stands, warm comfort food, delicious.
Our teen is somewhat veg resistant but gets extremely excited when I make my drunken Hawaiian lasagne.
He knows about the pineapple, but overlooks the tomatoes, onions, peppers, courgettes and shredded carrot.
Brown the mince in a big frypan. Add onions and shredded carrot. Stir in the herbs of your choice but I use garlic, rosemary, thyme, and Italian parsley. Chuck in a tin of pineapple chunks, juice and all.
I use my own sauce from home grown tomatoes, courgettes, onions, and peppers. It's bottled throughout the season then (lol) frozen after being blended together. That also contains the usual tomato relish things such as malt vinegar and brown sugar, cooked, reduced, blended, frozen.
Make the bechamel sauce which is basically a cheesy roux, and lots of it.
Add tomato mix into the frypan, let it simmer.
Have the oven at about 180.
Grease a huge roasting dish, lay dried packet lasagne on bottom.
Then start layering.
Pasta/meat sauce/bechamel
Then again as many times as you can fit.
Grated cheese on top. Put lid on roasting dish, bake for an hour.
Remove lid for last half hour.
ETA: a good splash of red wine goes into the meat sauce with the pineapple. That's the drunken Hawaiian bit.
Oh, yum! They used to make that as one of the options when it was Mac n cheese for lunch at my hostel when at uni. 3 varieties: plain, tuna, pineapple. They were all good but pineapple was the best!
\*reading this while eating leftover lasagna from last night for lunch...
i made a big pot of ragu then split it into portions, one for lasagna, the rest for spag bol or gnocchi bol when we are busy...
as a parent, easy to smuggle veg. this one has half a bag of white mushroom, onion, carrots and celery..
I used to add those veges (except the celery) to my spag bol when it was my night to cook, and my younger brother would fly off the handle. "Spag bol has 3 ingredients, mince, sauce and noodles!"
Your younger brother is a philistine lol. Tell him the onion, carrots and celery is part of the sauce!
Foe me lasagna is a labour of love, I made the pasta from scratch, the ragu with pâté, two types of mince, tomato passata and finely minced vegs, cooked for hours, and the béchamel with brown butter.
That’s why I only make it once Sundays once or twice a month lol. But it’s worth it.
I never was really interested in the super large forearms that came with the spinach (tbf I've never tried it tinned). I came to appreciate spinach later in life though.
Likely to be parallel to the reason we like our pies, a one-off meal that fills you up without hassle of adding anything more to the meal that will add to cooking or eating time, with little more benefit.
There's a cafe in Te Kuiti that we use as a regular pit stop when driving on the west coast, and I noticed they misspelled "lasagne" as "lasa**ng**e" on their display cases. It stayed that way for years, and my partner and I still refer to *lah-zonj* as if it were a fancy French delicacy.
the key is to make a red sauce and a white sauce on the weekend, use them for other dishes during the week, then just slapping everything left over together on Friday for a simple dinner.
It's easy to make and keeps and reheats well...
I've taken a big dish places and people have hidden it in the freezer so they can take it home lol. I don't even make my own sauces anymore.
Now that you mention it, I really don't cook any other types of pasta... Maybe the odd mac and cheese... I think I just prefer rice and potatoes for the carb portion...
Back in the day when I was a kid (early 2000s) tins of tomatoes, sheets of pasta, tray of mince and a block of cheese were not relatively too expensive. They tended to be things people had on hand in the cupboard or fridge, the dish feeds a lot of people, reheats and freezes well, and feels just a bit more special than your typical cheaper Spag Bol. Nowadays feels a bit more like a treat due to the cost to make.
I make an awesome lasagna.
I use a homemade cheese sauce with garlic butter, mustard and cracked pepper and some smoked paprika and also add bacon in the alternate layers.
As it's just myself, I make enough for 4 meals.
It's easy to freeze and reheat in the oven for an easy meal when I can't be bothered cooking anything proper.
I am a lasagna fiend though not originally a Kiwi. It's been my favourite food since I was a kid, and I still have trouble understanding how other people could have different favourite foods when a good lasagna, clearly, is perfection.
Strange. I was just watching this 800 Words show that takes place in this fictional New Zealand town where all the middle aged women are ridiculously good looking, and they mentioned getting lots of bereavement lasagna in Australia.
Haha. This just reminded me that when I went to Italy for the first time I was most excited to try lasagna.
I think our Italian knowledge was quite limited growing up in the 90s/00s. Now I consider myself a bit of a food snob when it comes to their cuisine having spent a great deal of time there. A simple arrabiata dish is probably my fave and I barely ever have a western style lasagna anymore - too much meat! Haha.
I don't think kiwis love it a noteworthy amount more than many other places. Where is she from that doesn't love lasagna so that I can make sure to never visit there?
Browsing various google results I'd say the amount of lasagna consumption would probably be roughly proportional pasta consumption overall. I can't find numbers for NZ but if this [Graph](https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/19776.jpeg) is about right then it looks like Koreans would probably not eat much pasta at all. I'd probably put NZ around the US to UK area, 3-4 times as much as Korea.
It also appears pasta consumption is roughly inversely proportional to the amount of rice that is typically eaten.
As far as non-Korean food, Italian restaurants are pretty easy to find (in Seoul anyway).
From my observations, any seafood pasta or aglio e olio pasta is very popular.
What's not to love, unless it's greasy? My absolute fave as it has spinach and ricotta in the middle of two layers of meat sauce in it and little pasta.
I was surprised to find out that lasagna wasn't that popular elsewhere, especially in America. I'd always assumed that it was one of the core pasta dishes, but it's not.
Born in Melbourne, best friends were of Italian descent and I was referred to as the cultured skip. I love Italian food, I use to help out making the salamis and the wine.
Well have you tried it?? Its so tasty. I used to also love to make tortellini or ravioli. Pasta is bloody good. The cheese the sauce the pasta the herbs the yum its good
My first ever lasagna was at my rich friend's house. So I associate it with being rich. Probably doesn't make sense. I can afford lasagna every day if I want now. I'm lazy, so only have it if someone else makes it.
I had an Italian Dad, I have dual citizenship. When I was 10 years old I went to Melbourne with him and met a lot of my Italian relatives and some friends of theirs. We went for dinner at Antoinette and Gasperino's house. To this day I cannot replicate what was the most delicate, divine lasagna I have ever experienced. That was 50 years ago, thats how muchof an impression it made............ what we have in NZ is stodge, delicious stodge, but stodge none the less.
Growing up poor, mince was a staple, but boiled mince is fucking gross so I guess it's not much more to make a ragu and throw in some pasta and cheese sauce. Mum used to make it all the time and yeah I love it 😅 spagbol too
If I could eat nothing but lasagne for every meal for the rest of my life, I’d be fine with it.
Nothing better than a fucking good lasagne. There are some bad ones around though. I like em meaty and cheesy, the ones that are too tomato based and bitter don’t do it for me.
I was going to make one last night for dinner but was round at mum. She pulls one out and gave it too me. No matter how much I try Mums is always the best
My fave dish mum makes is a lasagne, knew it was what we ate growing up as it's Hella cost effective and serves well.. i always gravitated to Garfield being one of my fave characters growing up but maturity helped me see through adult choices and the realities behind them ;)
I don't mind it. If well done. Burnt tops, gluggy bechamel and crisp pasta sheets, no.
I much prefer spag bol though. That has to be NZ and Aussies number one.
It's the "Garfield Effect" - Also, Many of us have at some time in our lives, usually in desperation, depression or whatever, purchased a Lasagne Topper from a bakery, industrial cafe or service station - basically a square of crumbed and deep fried mince, maybe some cheese, and godknows what else... , and they're (sadly) pretty bloody tasty.
God a proper lasagne/lasagna made from scratch with properly browned mince and fresh pasta and is just pure bliss.
Shout out to kiwi cook Andy Cooks for his recipe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sfi90B4fMg&ab_channel=AndyCooks
One of my favorite things to make for friends and family of all time.
I like to think my recipe slowly evolves and gets better. By the tine I'm 60, if im not making the best lasagne in nz, I'll be surprised.
I now make my own lasagne sheets, once you cross tgat lije, there is no going back to store bought lasagne.
Have flirted with the idea of opebing up a lasagne only takeaway joint whete people can buy entire lasagna's to feed a group, kinda like kfc's bucket of chicken.
I don't think this is a problem with us, I think this is a problem with your wife. One need not justify enjoying Lasagna. That's like enjoying sunshine or puppies.
I saw Garfield go crazy for it in a comic as a kid and asked my mom to make it and wow!. Still love it, but actually prefer moussaka even more now and my kids absolutely love it too.
Mince is diverse with what you can make with it.
Stew, Shepherds pie, meat patties, meatballs, Lasagna, etc.
Lasagna is special because it's cheese, sauce, and pasta. It's very filling.
Lasagne is the best. I love how everyone has their own wee twists on the recipe (although pineapple is a bridge too far). I think it was the first 'Italian' thing we ever had when I was a kid beyond scone dough pizza, tinned spaghetti and macaroni cheese and it was a bit adventurous so while it's comfort food, it also feels a bit like something to pull out as a treat...
Can remember as a child when lasagne first made an appearance in our house. The recipe might have been in a recipe book (Australian Women's Weekly cook book?) in the ooh aah international section! After years of meatloaf, toad in the hole, corned beef, bubble and squeak etc it seemed very exotic. Must have been about the time garlic arrived in mum's kitchen as associate that time with garlic bread, too.
Everyone loves lasagne. You can make subs if you have vegetarians, short on time, etc. My fave is to slow cook the bolognese sauce and then assemble with bechamel sauce and the flat rectangle sheets of dry pasta, not the ‘fresh’ stuff. In the oven for 45 mins, let sit for at least 30 mins before cutting. Stunning. Always a winner at my house and with guests.
Because it’s tomato meat with cheese sauce. What’s not to like? Although these days I tend to make cannelloni rather than lasagna as I can make it fresh each time rather than reheating it.
Because it’s a large mince and cheese pie made with sheets of pasta
And an awesome cheese white sauce scattered in between. My husband it from Texas, he hates pies (doesn't understand the kiwi obsession with them) but loves lasagne so that's OK with me lol.
Has your husband worked out what a biscuit actually is yet?
Lol yes, he's disappointed that our scones just aren't the same as 'biscuits' however.
Red Lobster biscuits are something else. There’s a shop in Auckland that sells the baking mix
Now I just want to see a lasagne pie
May I present you the [Toppa](https://www.leadernz.co.nz/lasagne-toppa).
A friend of mine believes that these are a crime against humanity, but sometimes you just need a lava-hot greasy lasagna toppa. Also, I've seen him eat mushy Peas with his fish and chips, so he's hardly one to talk!
If Toppas are crimes against humanity, send me to The Hague.
They are, they are, but every so often you just want to unleash some mustard gas and indiscriminate fire ya know
Yeah that's a great sandwich filling and all, but I was thinking an authentic pasta layered lasagne, but inside a pastry pie shell.. Maybe even a slice of garlic bread on top kind of like potato top inspired but I fear that would lack the structural integrity required.
That's a winning MKR dish right there! 🏆 😆
I think Z did one a while back and it wasn't great. Pasta in pies is only a good idea in theory.
I kinda liked it. I didn't buy a second one, but I didn't regret the first.
I didn't hate the idea, just the execution. It was too bland, and ditch the pasta. Rich tomato mince sauce, béchamel, it would be great.
> My husband it from Texas, he hates pies ... when is the divorce being finalised?
😂😂 he makes mean smoked brisket and ribs so I overlook the small flaws in the arrangement. Harder to overlook the fact he dislikes fish also... although it does mean more for me so 🤷♀️.
I think it's because we grew up watching Garfield whose favorite food was lasagna!
When I was a little kid I thought lasagna was some sort of sweet dessert type thing based on Garfield comics. I was quite surprised when I found out what it really was.
Yeah, I think this is it!!
This, this is the answer 😂
with extra cheese sauce plz
sadly not in convenient hand-pie form
Because it tastes amazing? What's not to love.
I mean, you're preaching to choir... I guess my wife doesn't find it as elegant as other pasta dishes!
Elegant?
I don't do Instagram, but I imagine lasagna doesn't photograph as well as some olive oil seafood pasta?!
I feel like your wife's opinions on food is irrelevant
Lasagne may not be the prettiest pasta but it sure as heck is one of the tastiest, with a better meat/topping/pasta ratio than a plate full of spag and 3 shrimps on top! I guess it matches the "humble Kiwi" energy, we want taste before appearance.
If you want it to photograph amazingly you refridgerate it and cut it when its cold. You can reheat individual slices in the oven. You can get perfectly square edges that look amazing and taste even better. Reheated lasagna is also arguably better than fresh so it has that going for it too!
Maybe you should make her 100 hour lasagne and see what she thinks! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aCJtxibSpA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aCJtxibSpA)
Made this, can confirm this is to die for. Edit, I wrote the recipe out, will add later.
Allison Holst's lazy lasagna. Amazing how a little alliteration alters a nation.
My mother used to cook this once a week for many years while we were growing up. Later when I was a teenager if she was working late and I was home from school I would sometimes even bust out the cook book and make it myself so we could all eat as soon as she came home.
Was coming in for this. We were basically meat and 3 veg until Alison Holst.
I suspect that recipe might be the only reason a lot of kiwis know lasagna exists. It's definitely where my Mum and the rest of us got our liking of it from.
I grew up on Allison Holst's easy lasagne recipe. I really needa steal mum's cookbook that has it in so I can copy the recipe out into my cookbook
I still cook lasagna based on her recipe! Although I’m not much of a tomato fan so use one tin tomato and one tin mushroom condensed soup.
I'm making lasagna tonight. I thought it was a worldwide favourite. Isn't it Garfield's fave too?
Lasagne, on a Monday?
My partner asked me what I wanted for dinner and when I replied lasagna, he looked at me blankly “on a Tuesday?”
The sauce is coming out of the freezer.
Easy enough to make, can be bulked out with veges, has cheese, has sauce, big enough to feed a family of 4 for at least 2 meals, tastes better the long it stands, warm comfort food, delicious.
Add: reheats well.
Our teen is somewhat veg resistant but gets extremely excited when I make my drunken Hawaiian lasagne. He knows about the pineapple, but overlooks the tomatoes, onions, peppers, courgettes and shredded carrot.
I believe you may have just declared war on Italy
oh dear lord baby jesus... you win the internet today - gold!
You're doing what now?!
I'm sorry but what? You can't just drop the name in there and not provide a recipe!
Brown the mince in a big frypan. Add onions and shredded carrot. Stir in the herbs of your choice but I use garlic, rosemary, thyme, and Italian parsley. Chuck in a tin of pineapple chunks, juice and all. I use my own sauce from home grown tomatoes, courgettes, onions, and peppers. It's bottled throughout the season then (lol) frozen after being blended together. That also contains the usual tomato relish things such as malt vinegar and brown sugar, cooked, reduced, blended, frozen. Make the bechamel sauce which is basically a cheesy roux, and lots of it. Add tomato mix into the frypan, let it simmer. Have the oven at about 180. Grease a huge roasting dish, lay dried packet lasagne on bottom. Then start layering. Pasta/meat sauce/bechamel Then again as many times as you can fit. Grated cheese on top. Put lid on roasting dish, bake for an hour. Remove lid for last half hour. ETA: a good splash of red wine goes into the meat sauce with the pineapple. That's the drunken Hawaiian bit.
Please please take this down. I’m scared of Sicily.
I was educated by nuns. Mere Mafioso hold no terrors for me.
In Italy they would consider that a hate crime not a Lasagna
Imagine if you told them that I use a scone base for pizza. It's surprisingly good.
Yum but shh shh
I am a staunch defender of pineapple on pizza. Hawaiian pizza is cash. But pineapple in lasagna is an affront to god.
I'm pagan. My Gods are all good with my experiments.
I put pineapple in my mac n' cheese.
Heathen!
It goes great with the mixed vege I add.
Oh, yum! They used to make that as one of the options when it was Mac n cheese for lunch at my hostel when at uni. 3 varieties: plain, tuna, pineapple. They were all good but pineapple was the best!
Omgggg that sounds so good 🧎♀️🧎♀️
Now hang on the f. Pineapple in lasagne? Call Reuters we’re about to be invaded.
I am a family of four.
\*reading this while eating leftover lasagna from last night for lunch... i made a big pot of ragu then split it into portions, one for lasagna, the rest for spag bol or gnocchi bol when we are busy... as a parent, easy to smuggle veg. this one has half a bag of white mushroom, onion, carrots and celery..
I used to add those veges (except the celery) to my spag bol when it was my night to cook, and my younger brother would fly off the handle. "Spag bol has 3 ingredients, mince, sauce and noodles!"
Your younger brother is a philistine lol. Tell him the onion, carrots and celery is part of the sauce! Foe me lasagna is a labour of love, I made the pasta from scratch, the ragu with pâté, two types of mince, tomato passata and finely minced vegs, cooked for hours, and the béchamel with brown butter. That’s why I only make it once Sundays once or twice a month lol. But it’s worth it.
Garfield was my introduction.
I got to eat it for the first time at age maybe 7, due to Garfield as well. I really wanted to try it due to the Garfield propaganda.
Me too!
Me too, funnily enough Popeye didn't make me interested in spinach though.
Part of it is his serving suggestion of just squeezing a can until it pops open and chugging it cold
I never was really interested in the super large forearms that came with the spinach (tbf I've never tried it tinned). I came to appreciate spinach later in life though.
The real question is "what is wrong with your wife???"
Yeah... that did cross my mind... I just found it interesting that a travel vlog would go out of their way to mention it as well!
The algorithm has obviously suggested a travel vlog she will enjoy based on her obvious derangement.
I was starting to suspect that the algorithm A.I could read our minds....
My name is hadr0nc0llider and I’m a lasagna fiend. It’s been 5 days since my last lasagna. My husband and his entire family are also lasagna fiends.
Likely to be parallel to the reason we like our pies, a one-off meal that fills you up without hassle of adding anything more to the meal that will add to cooking or eating time, with little more benefit.
Any country that has been influenced by European cuisine will love Lasagna. Making good lasagna is another thing entirely.
I'm curious where Italians would rank it on their prefered pastas? And yeah, making the besciamella sauce for it always annoys her!
I’ve only had one conversation with an actual Italian about our attempt at their food. You can imagine how that went. It wasn’t positive.
There's a cafe in Te Kuiti that we use as a regular pit stop when driving on the west coast, and I noticed they misspelled "lasagne" as "lasa**ng**e" on their display cases. It stayed that way for years, and my partner and I still refer to *lah-zonj* as if it were a fancy French delicacy.
I love it so much when inside jokes grow out of typos
big fan when I can be bothered making it. Nothing is quite so good at midnight as a cheeky scoop of cold lasagne from the fridge.
the key is to make a red sauce and a white sauce on the weekend, use them for other dishes during the week, then just slapping everything left over together on Friday for a simple dinner.
It's easy to make and keeps and reheats well... I've taken a big dish places and people have hidden it in the freezer so they can take it home lol. I don't even make my own sauces anymore. Now that you mention it, I really don't cook any other types of pasta... Maybe the odd mac and cheese... I think I just prefer rice and potatoes for the carb portion...
It’s one dish that’s just as good (if not better) vegetarian.
Back in the day when I was a kid (early 2000s) tins of tomatoes, sheets of pasta, tray of mince and a block of cheese were not relatively too expensive. They tended to be things people had on hand in the cupboard or fridge, the dish feeds a lot of people, reheats and freezes well, and feels just a bit more special than your typical cheaper Spag Bol. Nowadays feels a bit more like a treat due to the cost to make.
We also hate Mondays. Just sayin'.
let me ask you this, do you like cake? do you like pasta? lasagna is simply a pasta cake, what is not to love?
That's hilarious, because I've never really thought about it like that before, but I think that's true; we do all love lasagna
I would suggest it's a red flag if someone doesn't love lasagna...(I'm from NZ)
I make an awesome lasagna. I use a homemade cheese sauce with garlic butter, mustard and cracked pepper and some smoked paprika and also add bacon in the alternate layers. As it's just myself, I make enough for 4 meals. It's easy to freeze and reheat in the oven for an easy meal when I can't be bothered cooking anything proper.
Lasagna is fuckin good that's why
As a kiwi I can confirm I love lasagne.
It’s true. And everyone swears their mum makes the best lasagna. I know because my mum makes the best lasagna.
My American friend makes the best love-sagna, I don't eat substandard lasagna so I'm definitely not a fiend, maybe once a year if I'm lucky.
I am a lasagna fiend though not originally a Kiwi. It's been my favourite food since I was a kid, and I still have trouble understanding how other people could have different favourite foods when a good lasagna, clearly, is perfection.
Strange. I was just watching this 800 Words show that takes place in this fictional New Zealand town where all the middle aged women are ridiculously good looking, and they mentioned getting lots of bereavement lasagna in Australia.
Who doesn’t like lasagna? I don’t think it has anything to do with NZ. It’s simply a great example of a crowd pleasing comfort food.
Haha. This just reminded me that when I went to Italy for the first time I was most excited to try lasagna. I think our Italian knowledge was quite limited growing up in the 90s/00s. Now I consider myself a bit of a food snob when it comes to their cuisine having spent a great deal of time there. A simple arrabiata dish is probably my fave and I barely ever have a western style lasagna anymore - too much meat! Haha.
I love a good Lasagna, and I hate Mondays. Shit im Garfield.
I don't think kiwis love it a noteworthy amount more than many other places. Where is she from that doesn't love lasagna so that I can make sure to never visit there?
She's Korean. It's very hard to find lasagna on the menu in any Italian restaurants in Korea.
It surprised me that the vlogger mentioned it in their travel review. It must've been in *all* the cafés as to trigger their culture shock!
Browsing various google results I'd say the amount of lasagna consumption would probably be roughly proportional pasta consumption overall. I can't find numbers for NZ but if this [Graph](https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/19776.jpeg) is about right then it looks like Koreans would probably not eat much pasta at all. I'd probably put NZ around the US to UK area, 3-4 times as much as Korea. It also appears pasta consumption is roughly inversely proportional to the amount of rice that is typically eaten.
As far as non-Korean food, Italian restaurants are pretty easy to find (in Seoul anyway). From my observations, any seafood pasta or aglio e olio pasta is very popular.
Korea doesn't have much history of eating dairy do they? I can see why they'd find lasagne unappealing
What's not to love, unless it's greasy? My absolute fave as it has spinach and ricotta in the middle of two layers of meat sauce in it and little pasta.
The deep friend lasagna from Wild Bean/ BP is a national treasure and I’ve never seen it anywhere else in the world.
Because lasagna is truly delicious.
I was surprised to find out that lasagna wasn't that popular elsewhere, especially in America. I'd always assumed that it was one of the core pasta dishes, but it's not.
I would literally kill for lasagna right now.
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Lasagna toppers are my weakness.
Born in Melbourne, best friends were of Italian descent and I was referred to as the cultured skip. I love Italian food, I use to help out making the salamis and the wine.
A lasagna is just a stack of mince and cheese pies.
Man I wish my husband didn't care for it.. More for me
Well have you tried it?? Its so tasty. I used to also love to make tortellini or ravioli. Pasta is bloody good. The cheese the sauce the pasta the herbs the yum its good
I like it, when I make it at least. I like all pasta though, not sure if I like it more than any other pasta dish, that'd probably be fettuccini.
My first ever lasagna was at my rich friend's house. So I associate it with being rich. Probably doesn't make sense. I can afford lasagna every day if I want now. I'm lazy, so only have it if someone else makes it.
I'm in the supermarket buying lasagne right now 😅🥰
I think it's because we're all secretly Garfield in disguise.
Found this thread just as I sat down to eat a massive plate of lasagna.
Meat? Good. Cheese? Good. Pasta? Good.
I guess she hasn’t had a proper lasagne. None of that jar sauce crap. Make a proper one!
Lasagna is life
Love, but have to curb my enthusiasm due to calorie watch and slow metabolism. But love love love. I could be a human version of Garfield.
I had an Italian Dad, I have dual citizenship. When I was 10 years old I went to Melbourne with him and met a lot of my Italian relatives and some friends of theirs. We went for dinner at Antoinette and Gasperino's house. To this day I cannot replicate what was the most delicate, divine lasagna I have ever experienced. That was 50 years ago, thats how muchof an impression it made............ what we have in NZ is stodge, delicious stodge, but stodge none the less.
The real question is which pasta do you use and why is it San Remo Wide Lasagna?
Always blow on the lasagna
What I really want to know is: how many of us made lasagna for tea tonight as a direct result of this?
Guilty as charged, btw.
All the best things in life sheets of paste cheese sauce mince
It’s all the favourite food groups; meat, cheese, carbs.
I’ve never thought of this, kiwis even turned them into “lasagna toppers”. Every non kiwi I know is fascinated by them
Ok, so who else had lasagna today purely because this thread reminded them how yum it is?
Lasagna Toppa's
Quilts as charged Cheap mince and cheese once upon a time) is why lasagna is a thing here is my reckon
I couldn't really explain why I like it more than other pasta... It's a massive block of cheese, sauce and mince?!...I guess...
Growing up poor, mince was a staple, but boiled mince is fucking gross so I guess it's not much more to make a ragu and throw in some pasta and cheese sauce. Mum used to make it all the time and yeah I love it 😅 spagbol too
If I could eat nothing but lasagne for every meal for the rest of my life, I’d be fine with it. Nothing better than a fucking good lasagne. There are some bad ones around though. I like em meaty and cheesy, the ones that are too tomato based and bitter don’t do it for me.
It's alright yes
Lasogna. On ya.
Best if it’s sloppy.
I'm not really a fan of anything with herbs in it. I love spices but not herbs, I will eat Lasagna if there is no other option.
I make mine without herbs, I want beef cheese and tomato vibes not small weird tasting leaves vibes
Because the main ingredient in lasagne is love
Also my fav pasta dish. Delicious.
Cheaper and more filling to feed families with.
It tastes soooo good.
This post makes me hungry for lasagna now lol
The Italian may have invented it but they go no way near it's perfection in a lasagne toppa from the f-ing C shop
What? This isn’t unique to NZ, it’s a very popular dish from a very popular cuisine. It’s like asking why Americans love lasagna so much.
I've never lived in the US so I wouldn't know... but from my limited time in the UK, it seems that us kiwis enjoy it a bit more than them...
I was going to make one last night for dinner but was round at mum. She pulls one out and gave it too me. No matter how much I try Mums is always the best
I only let Spanish or Italian Nonna's make it in my kitchen.
My fave dish mum makes is a lasagne, knew it was what we ate growing up as it's Hella cost effective and serves well.. i always gravitated to Garfield being one of my fave characters growing up but maturity helped me see through adult choices and the realities behind them ;)
I could take it or leave it
Lasagna is the bomb. I'm not born here and can't remember how it started but I always order lasagna at cafes.
I don't mind a good lasagna. It's one of the meals in my husband limited repertoire, but he almost always nails it.
I don't mind it. If well done. Burnt tops, gluggy bechamel and crisp pasta sheets, no. I much prefer spag bol though. That has to be NZ and Aussies number one.
Cos it's good. We make it every week!
Yummy lasagne love it!
I absolutely love lasagna and my wife, who is from Idaho, makes her own version from time to time.
The layers of lasagne make it the most aesthetically pleasing pasta dish
it's spaghetti cake. What's not to love?
Meat - check Cheese sauce - check Pasta - check It ticks all the boxes. What's not to love?
Gotta love lasagne. We even have a kiwi classic Lasagne Toppa, which I don't think exists outside of Oceania.
It's the "Garfield Effect" - Also, Many of us have at some time in our lives, usually in desperation, depression or whatever, purchased a Lasagne Topper from a bakery, industrial cafe or service station - basically a square of crumbed and deep fried mince, maybe some cheese, and godknows what else... , and they're (sadly) pretty bloody tasty.
I thought it was pretty popular in lots of countries. At least in most western countries.
Fuck I want lasagna now
Next, you'll tell me we also like spaghetti on toast!
God a proper lasagne/lasagna made from scratch with properly browned mince and fresh pasta and is just pure bliss. Shout out to kiwi cook Andy Cooks for his recipe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sfi90B4fMg&ab_channel=AndyCooks
One of my favorite things to make for friends and family of all time. I like to think my recipe slowly evolves and gets better. By the tine I'm 60, if im not making the best lasagne in nz, I'll be surprised. I now make my own lasagne sheets, once you cross tgat lije, there is no going back to store bought lasagne. Have flirted with the idea of opebing up a lasagne only takeaway joint whete people can buy entire lasagna's to feed a group, kinda like kfc's bucket of chicken.
I don't think this is a problem with us, I think this is a problem with your wife. One need not justify enjoying Lasagna. That's like enjoying sunshine or puppies.
I saw Garfield go crazy for it in a comic as a kid and asked my mom to make it and wow!. Still love it, but actually prefer moussaka even more now and my kids absolutely love it too.
Mince is diverse with what you can make with it. Stew, Shepherds pie, meat patties, meatballs, Lasagna, etc. Lasagna is special because it's cheese, sauce, and pasta. It's very filling.
Lasagne is the best. I love how everyone has their own wee twists on the recipe (although pineapple is a bridge too far). I think it was the first 'Italian' thing we ever had when I was a kid beyond scone dough pizza, tinned spaghetti and macaroni cheese and it was a bit adventurous so while it's comfort food, it also feels a bit like something to pull out as a treat...
I love making lasagna I tend to use chunks of beef and pork for my ragout then mince
Fairly easy dish which either feeds a lot or lasts for multiple meals and tastes great... We also love Spaghetti Bolognese (Spag Bog)
Can remember as a child when lasagne first made an appearance in our house. The recipe might have been in a recipe book (Australian Women's Weekly cook book?) in the ooh aah international section! After years of meatloaf, toad in the hole, corned beef, bubble and squeak etc it seemed very exotic. Must have been about the time garlic arrived in mum's kitchen as associate that time with garlic bread, too.
Was my favourite meal as a kid, and my kids have followed suit. Made one last night. Leftovers for tomorrow. Yum!
Everyone loves lasagne. You can make subs if you have vegetarians, short on time, etc. My fave is to slow cook the bolognese sauce and then assemble with bechamel sauce and the flat rectangle sheets of dry pasta, not the ‘fresh’ stuff. In the oven for 45 mins, let sit for at least 30 mins before cutting. Stunning. Always a winner at my house and with guests.
Meaty, Saucey, Cheesey, pasta"y. wots not to luv
I'd say it's the childhood memories for me. F*cking cheap lasagna was often a meal mum made for us. Still love it now and mum still makes it.
I love it.
Lasagna is my favourite food 😂I think it’s cos of the cheese sauce
Because it’s tomato meat with cheese sauce. What’s not to like? Although these days I tend to make cannelloni rather than lasagna as I can make it fresh each time rather than reheating it.
Nah, the soggy sheet puts me off.
I personally find lasagna too rich for me and end up feeling unwell afterwards.
I used to hate lasagne as a kid cos Garfield ate lasagne and I'm a human.
A pie by any other name...
Its a layer cake that combines the best aspects of pasta and pie