My First Lasagna!

So, I was REALLY ambitious this last weekend. I made a meatloaf Saturday, and a lasagna Sunday. The lasagna was a "healthier" version made with whole wheat pasta, fat free/low fat cheese, turkey, and spinach. Overall, it was...well, we'll call it a good learning experience I suppose. I didn't take as many pictures as I would have liked because I was kinda messy a lot. So, on to what I learned...

Lesson 1: How do you boil lasagna noodles? I guess I need one of those long pasta pots. Whatev. Some of them broke and I think I overcooked them a bit. Oh well.



Lesson 2: Make sure the skillet/pan is big enough for what I'm cooking. I cut it a bit close for the turkey/sauce mixture. Plus, when is started simmering it definitely kinda spurted and went all over the stove top a bit. I'm a neat freak...so that bothered me, but again, oh well.



Lesson 3: I used too much spinach. The recipe called for fresh spinach, I used frozen...I wasn't sure how/if that coverted...but whatever...there was a lot. It was mixed with the ricotta and supposed to be "spreadable." Well, it wasn't, or I didn't have the patience to mess with it, so I just kind clumped it around evenly. Oops. Still...a lot of spinach...probably a bit too much.


Lesson 4: I should have added more tomato sauce. I didn't really have room in the pan...but in the future, I'll use a bigger pan...with more room for sauce so the lasagna is "saucy-er"


Lesson 5: Lasagna takes a long time to make.





The actual lasagna was definitely edible, and I'm eating leftovers this week. There is NO way Josh would have eaten this. However, I think with some slight additions, it could be much tastier. Will I make this again? Not anytime soon...but I haven't written off lasagna forever...