What in the world is this green lasagna?

I'm sorry, OP, but spinach pasta is exotic to you?

Where do you live and how old are you?

barf

Looks like shit!

I’m sure it’s excellent. Bechamel sauce plus bolognese is delicious, though rich. Probably one of those dishes that tastes much better than it tastes.

That tastes much better than it looks! doh!

Gee, I'm hungry.

I would try it. Love lasagne and spinach.

I've made it several times, It does take an immense amount of time but is quite good. The spinach definitely adds an a nice element.

Just so you don't strain it, OP . . .

UGh, mint lasagna.

Looks infected.

Looks like something the Grinch threw up/

God damn....is that shit edible?

I've made Marcella's Lasagne Bolognese a hundred times, but have never bothered with the spinach.

Looks like a biopsy of something pretty vile STD.

a better pic of lasagne Bolognese, no spinach

Looks like it came out of a sloppy shit hole vomiting as it's simultaneously shitting.

R17 here, replying to OPs pic.

Mmmm...can't wait to have a meal with r17.

Never had green pasta before? It’s not that odd.

I love spinach, but, that doesn't look very appetizing...

Spinach is tricky. I don't mind it fresh in a spinach salad or cooked perfectly (using fresh spinach to begin with), but there are few things worse than brown, slimy, soggy, "fuzzy" textured, over-cooked spinach. Why ruin a great lasagna? To do it right, it takes TIME anyway (I always prep at least 2 and then throw one in the freezer for a later dinner party). I also make a bechamel and bolognese sauce and layer both into the dish. Plenty of fresh Mozzarella and good Parmigiano-Reggiano and tons of fresh basil scissored between layers also. The spinach is better on the side as a salad if you ask me. Plus, I was never eat a re-heated spinach lasagna the day after - gross...

Is Marcella Hazan even relevant anymore?

That is such an unfortunate color for lasagna...I mean? SHIT. There are ways to add spinach to this dish -and still have it be delicious-but not look so tragic.

Lol R19.

Lasagna bolognese is fucking delicious. I’d never go through the trouble of making the pasta from scratch, but everything else is worth it to me.

It seems to me that she didn’t top the top layer with an adequate, final layer of cheese to give it that crusted, baked cheese topping, which is IMO the best part of the dish. Also, this web post is from 2008. I am sure someone else can make this dish now, photograph it, and make it look prettier.

Why don't YOU make this dish now, r27, topping the top layer with an adequate, final layer of cheese to give it that crusted, baked cheese topping, IYO the best part of the dish, photograph it, and make it look prettier?

If the crusted, baked cheese topping is IYO the best part of the dish, you must be using boxed pasta.

R28, ha! I actually think I will! I have a free day later this week and I want to know what this recipe actually tastes like.

It doesn't count unless you make your own pasta, though, r30.

She uses standard pasta. The spinach is there because some AmeriCanadian thinks all lasagne is lasagne florentine.

It should have a sauce thats half bolognese half salsa di balsamella, reg pasta, mozz chees, parm and butter to top.

Aside :Broken keyboards are annoying on laptops.

[quote]She uses standard pasta.

Marcella? No. She always made her own.

R31, that I can do in my sleep. 😀 Haven’t incorporated spinach into it before, but looks easy enough.

R33 : That is standard. Factory pasta is spaghetti and shit.

I think it's better to just add spinach to the sauce. Spinach mixed into the pasta dough doesn't taste good in my opinion. It ruins the flavor of the pasta.

It reminds me of that green slime they drop on people at the Kid's Choice Awards.

R36, I tend to think green pasta is more for aesthetics than taste.. yes there are some green pastas which can look striking (see below). Any taste it would have would be rather subtle.

Sort of how like squid ink pasta is more for looks, IMO. Although some people with a more discerning palate might tell you it tastes iron-y with “notes from the sea.”

More like something the Grinch shit out, R12!

So I finally made this the other day. It actually was very rich and delicious, but no, it is not particularly photogenic.

I love spinach. But this is just...odd. I am not a chef, but there has to be make it seem more appetizing. And I would so eat it.

R41, ultimately I prefer my mother's lasagna recipe. I made it just for the novelty of it, for a group of relatives, who agreed that it was very tasty but the color was a bit offputting. My elementary school nephew and niece were into the green color... lol.

I recently scraped something like that off the ceiling of my microwave. It must have been stuck up there for months.

Looks like the Jolly Green Giant took a dump.

All these Negative Nancys have the culinary tastes of Donna Dasher. I'm sure they'd prefer two chicken breasts, and an extremely large glass of ice water.

I like spinach filled ravioli so I might like this.

R46, the OP's is a particularly unflattering photo of this dish. Mine was not photogenic, but it didn't look THAT bad. The recipe was solid in terms of taste though - it's a dish you might serve under very dim candlelight...

I think i'd rather try this.

R48, that looks good.