Lasagna?
Karrie
09/15/08 		Hi Ellen
Do you have any good recipes for Lasagna? I am thinking of doing this for my son's first birthday with bread and salads. But I want a really good recipe. Any suggestions?
ellen
09/15/08 		Use the guidelines for quantities on the lotsa pasta page. Use a great sauce, good quality ground bee with about 1/4 real Italian sausage and real ricotta, not cottage cheese. Use plenty of cheese and grate it yourself. Use fresh basil. It will be great.
Karrie
09/24/08 		Could I make these pans of lasagna ahead of time? If so, how should I do this? Make the sauce ahead of time....let it cool, put in the refrigerator and then the next day assemble everything and refrigerate the whole lasagna? Also what salads (besides a traditional) salad would work with lasagna? I would like to have garlic bread on the side but I think it would be difficult to keep it warm, so would fresh italian bread be best with butter?
ellen
09/24/08 		In the OAMC section, there is instruction on making, freezing and reheating home made lasagna. I developed this as a crockpot recipe. You can do the same, freeze in foil lined pans (so you can take it out of the pans once frozen). reheat tightly covered in the oven at 300 to make the equivalent of a high crock pot, or up to 375 just like a stouffers frozen lasagna.

If you use a cheesy garlic bread like my cajun garlic bread, it will be fine. You could borrow an electric roaster to keep it warm if you really want to.

Karrie
10/07/08 		Hi Ellen

How much should I have in Italian bread/baguettes to have on the side for 55 people?

ellen
10/07/08 		6-7 pounds, depends on the rest of the dishes.