On Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 5:50:43 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
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> The first time I made lasagna I went to the Italian grocery store next
> to the house we were ling in. I picked up all the ingredients and went
> to the checkout. The cashier asked me if my wife was making lasagna and
> I told her no, I was making it. Well.... according to her, I had all the
> wrong stuff. She took the stuff back and replaced it with better
> quality stuff..... better pasta, better tomato sauce, ricotta instead of
> cottage cheese and she got the butcher to grate some mozzarella and
> Parmesan, and the recipe was on the lasagna noodle box. IIRC it was
> DeCecco.

I remember the first time I made lasagna. It was back in the 70's. Most of them have been nothing to write home about. These days I don't make that kind of stuff but perhaps I should. These days I'd substitute egg plant and squash for the pasta. I'll have to put that down on my agenda.