Cooking Lasagna Secret 1 9 2024

I bought a 5lb tin of Lasagna in a cardboard box for 15 dollars.

Can I eat 5 pounds in one meal? Unfortunately.  But that can kill a person. Just like being in a hot dog eating contest can give you a heart attack.

So here is what I do.  I cut a third of that lasagna and put in in a bread pan.  You don't need to put a baking sheet under it in the oven because it doesn't come that high up the sides of the pan.

But it helps if you have a strong serrated knife you can trust to cut it.  I press the knife down into it in a cross section line. Then same thing the underside of the cut.  It helps if you run the knife under the hot faucet while doing so.  Then you may have to break it in half by placing that cutting line you made on the edge of a cutting board a using your palms to create downward pressure.

But you are not done yet.  Take a can of chopped pineapple, drain it, and rinse drain if you want a few times.  Then put that on the sides of the lasagna in the bread pan and on top.  Bake per directions.  Make a center test cut and use your laser thermometer (they cost~15 bucks?) And make sure your internal temperature anywhere in and around that test cut is 168 degrees f.  And it doesn't seem to matter if you get too much hotter than that.  I have taken them out at 30 plus degrees to that.

The pineapple has digestive enzymes in it that help you digest it.  Lasagna is filling.

It is unbelievably good.  You will never have had better lasagna.  You might not recognize it has pineapple on it, it will look like the rest of it.

Unbelievably good.

So that third of the ~5 lbs is a big meal for two.

I had three platefuls and someone else had one helping.

© 2024 Thomas Paul Murphy 

Ps.  That is that spatula I showed you on YouTube.

 

And be carefull, knives break. Causing cut hands or broken blades springing towards the eyes.  Wear eye protection.  Perhaps oven gloves each hand.  And know your limitations.  If you are clutzy-like, forget about it.