On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 19:15:58 +0100, Pamela > wrote:

>On 18:42 28 Sep 2018, graham wrote:
>
>> On 2018-09-28 8:16 AM, l not -l wrote:
>>> On 28-Sep-2018, Pamela > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 05:36 28 Sep 2018, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu 27 Sep 2018 08:34:29p, Dave Smith told us...
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2018-09-27 11:05 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu 27 Sep 2018 02:57:37a, Cindy Hamilton told us...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 8:28:27 PM UTC-4, Wayne
>>>>>>>> Boatwright wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Wed 26 Sep 2018 01:38:26p, jmcquown told us...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 9/26/2018 2:54 PM, tert in seattle wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue 25 Sep 2018 01:59:36p, Pamela told us...
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 02:16 25 Sep 2018, jay wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 9/24/18 5:34 PM, rosie wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yesterday, i spent most of the day making two large
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pans of lasagna, one for us, and one for the really
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> nice people at PHYSICAL THERAPY. It was delicious,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> they loved it and so did we !
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Rosie
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I love love love lasagna! I even had a crawfish
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> lasagna once in New Orleans that was super delicious!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nice that you take care of your PT folks!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> jay
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I love lasagna as much as the next woman and perhaps
>>>>>>>>>>>>> more but I draw the line at having one with crayfish.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I've had lasagne in a restaurant that was made with
>>>>>>>>>>>> lobster and had a bechamel sauce. It was quite good.
>>>>>>>>>>>> No tomato products inolved.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> hmm... when does it cross the line from lasagna to
>>>>>>>>>>> casserole?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Lasagna *is* a casserole.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Jill
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I suppose by broad definition.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What's your narrow definition?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I believe I said this before, but perhaps not is so many
>>>>>>> words. Lasagna is a visibly structured pasta dish.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> From Wiki... Lasagne is a type of wide, flat pasta,
>>>>>>> possibly one of
>>>>>>> the oldest types of pasta. Lasagne, or the singular lasagna,
>>>>>>> commonly refers to a culinary dish made with stacked layers
>>>>>>> of pasta alternated with sauces and ingredients such as
>>>>>>> meats, vegetables and cheese, and sometimes topped with
>>>>>>> melted grated cheese.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> By contrast, a casserole is a combination of a few or many
>>>>>>> ingredients generally dumped and mixed together, possibly in
>>>>>>> layers or not.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What contrast? Lasagna fits the description of a casserole.
>>>>>> If you look at the Wikipedia article on casserole and follow
>>>>>> the link "list of casserole dishes" it includes lasagna.
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think you're right because the other responses are using a
>>>> poor description as if it were an authoritative definition.
>>>>
>>>> Lasgana tends to a firm construction like a layered pie, whereas
>>>> a casserole tends to a sloppy consistency like a stew.
>>>>
>>>> Occassionally they may overlap but, in my book, that's only when
>>>> someone made a bad lasgana and someone else a partly dried
>>>> casserole.
>>>>
>>>> IMHO
>>> I think your characterization of "sloppy consistency" is
>>> mistaken; I can think of few, if any that are intended to be
>>> stew-like. Casseroles, such as green bean, scalloped potatoes,
>>> baked ziti, mac and cheese, tuna noodle casserole, tetrazzini and
>>> similar, IME, are only sloppy due to mistakes in preparation, not
>>> intent. Perhaps I've not been exposed to a wide enough world of
>>> casseroles; but, I can't recall ever having one that was,
>>> intentionally, stew-like. I have had stew served in a casserole
>>> dish; but, does that make it a casserole? Is chicken and
>>> dumplings a casserole?
>>>
>> I don't know what all the fuss is about. A casserole is the vessel
>> in which food is cooked. What you dump in it doesn't matter!
>
>I think I was wrong to characterise a casserole only as a stew and
>may have inferred that because in the UK casseroles tend to be like
>a stew. Wikipedia says this is true also of Ireland, Australia, and
>New Zealand but it doesn't mention anything about the U.S.
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casserole
>
>Lasagna I've had in Italy has been very firm. Conversely lasagna
>I've had in the UK has been a slip sliding slithery thing.

casseroles in the U.S. are generally based around potatoes or rice or
pasta. There is usually a meat involved -- chopped, ground cut into
small pieces. It may be done in the oven or sometimes stove top. It
is a semi-firm mass when finished that you ladle onto your plate. You
expect the casserole helping that you took to stay in place on your
plate and not run or ooze. It can be considered a one dish meal as it
often contains meat, vegetables and a starch. This is not a hard and
fast rule, there are vegetable casseroles