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Morning Carol! It depends on how posh I want it to be as to what cheese sauce I use. Generally I'm dead common though so just make a basic cheese sauce using a bog standard mild cheese with some grated and sprinkled on top! lol Jeanette x

when i make lasagne Carol, i use minced beef, onion, garlic, a jar of lasagne sauce, you then need a cheese sauce, which you do need a good flavoured cheese, but basicly it's all according to taste!!

Hi, You need to make a bolognese sauce with minced beef, tomatoes, onion, garlic. Use a jar if you find it easier. Make a cheese sauce with butter, flour, milk and grated cheddar. Layer the two sauces with ready-t-cook lasagne shhets in a baking dish, ending with cheese sauce. Sprinkle with grated parmesan. Bake. That is off the top of my head, but that is more-or-less how I do lasagne. Liz :-)

My husband wants to make a Lasagne tomorrow and needs a receipe, I have found one that list ingredients as: garlic clove onion minced beef jar classic italian sauce with mushroom lasagne tomato puree water oregano basil ricotta mozzarella parmesan salt and pepper do you need three different cheeses or do you have a simpler receipe! Thanks Carol

This is our favourite dish in our house. Mince - cook and drain off fat Onion - chopped fine or coarse add to mince Italian mixed herbs - as much as you like - add to above Garlic - bulbs or paste - add to above 2 tins of Tomatos' - plum or chopped - add to the above optional - splash of wine and chopped black olives ( add wine after mince has been drained) Olives at the end Bring to boil and simmer as long as you like Sauce: Lge Knob of butter - melt slowly Take off heat Flour - add as much to the butter to make a paste half a pint of Milk to three qtrs - slowly add to paste stirring to make sure no lumps - bring to boil stirring all the time. Take of heat Add grated cheddar cheese and stir in - add a pinch ( a qtr to half of a teaspoon) of mustard powder or paste ( English Mustard) stir low heat till cheese has melted & sauce is thick. Layer the sauces between lasagna sheets Bake in oven 30 - 45 mins........... take out oven leave to rest for 10 mins ENJOY

Debi........wine optional? Have you taken leave of your senses woman! Wine is compulsary! LOL

Lol Jeanette - my excuse is its so EARLY to be thinking LOLOLOL Of course there should be copious amounts of the red stuff........and one should be sampling it ALL the way through the process ........... LMAO

i was going to say is the wine to drink whilst making the lasagne LOL Helen

Wednesday taking allowance for time we both arrive home from work......it will be served at 7.30 - 7.45

Carol, what times your meal, think I can fly in from Aust. in time, wine and lasagne way to go. Enjoy regards Lorraine.

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You could make it the night before and warm it up when you get in Or if you can wait til 7.45 to eat, you can pass the time drinking the rest of the bottle of red wine! lol

Oh Jeanette thats a brilliant idea............. the night before one of course!! lol

Lasagne is my 'Speciality' Here is the recipe for the Cheese sauce I make. Put 1 Pint Milk into a non stick saucepan, and add the following. 2 Bay Leaves, crumpled. 6 Peppercorns. 3 Cloves. 1 Onion quartered, 1 Carrot quartered & 1 stick of Celery quartered. Gently heat until not quite boiling. Remove from Heat and let stand for 30 minutes. Strain with a fine sieve. You now have a wonderful flavoured milk. Make sauce as usual with the flavoured milk. When cooked add the yolk of 1 egg and stir over gentle heat for 1 minute. Then add 1 small tub of single cream and a strong Cheese. Remove from the heat, and let the cheese melt gradually. Jenny.

Lasagne is a firm favourite in our house as it is quite time consuming I always make up two one for now and one for the freezer!

Well I bet you can't guess what I'm having for tea! Anybody care to join me in a galss of vino tinto while it's cooking! LOL

CHEESE SAUCE??? Tut tut! Should be layered with bechamel sauce. If you really must use cheese, it should go on the top layer only. OC

Correct OC ! Don't forget the nutmeg in the bechamel. Kaye.

That's right OC. I always make my mince sauce the day before - improves the flavour I think. Reminds me. I haven't made lasagne for ages!

My version Mince, Onion, mushroom, tinned tomato, jar of bolanaise saurce, optional extras (carrot, parsnip, cellary, swead, sweet pots - juice and pulp from juicer. Dry Lasagne sheets basic cheese sauce (Milk, flour, cheese) + greated chees to top off. Bake in hot oven for 1 hr or until pasta is cooked