Received 01:00:39 on 07/08/91, Posting # 22 ***** Subject: rec.food.veg vegetarian lasagna From: Jerome Grimmer Article 16955 of rec.food.veg: Path: usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!ukma!vlsi!ulkyvx.bitnet!j0otte01 From: j0otte01@ulkyvx.bitnet Newsgroups: rec.food.veg Subject: VEGAN: Down Home Lasagna Message-ID: <1991Jun28.093436.635@ulkyvx.bitnet> Date: 28 Jun 91 13:34:36 GMT Organization: University of Louisville Lines: 73 Jesse's Down Home Lasagna ----------------------------------------- Sauce - - 1 large jar of favorite spaghetti sauce (chunky) - 1 large can of crushed tomatoes - 1 small can of tomato paste - 1 1/2 cups TVP - 3/4 cup diced onion - 1 small green pepper, diced - 1 cup sliced mushrooms - 1 can pitted black olives, sliced Spices - - fresh garlic - oregano - basil (fresh if possible) - salt Body - - 1 box of good quality lasagna noodles - 1 (or 2 if you want) containers of ricotta cheese - 1/2 pound (or more) grated mozzarella cheese In a hot skillet with a little olive oil (peanut, canola, or just plain vegetable will do) saute vegetables. Start with onions until they start to get clear, add mushrooms and peppers and keep stirred. Add a crushed clove of garlic, a little basil and oregano and saute until mushrooms start to get soft. Remove from heat. In a large bowl combine all tomato products, TVP, and black olives. Add spices to taste. It will need some salt because of the canned tomatoes, but other than that it is your discretion. I suggest 2 or 3 cloves of pressed garlic and lots of the other stuff as well. In a standard lasagna pan (8x12 or somewhere thereabouts) start with a layer of sauce on the bottom of the pan (at least a 1/2 inch) then put down a layer of noodles. DO NOT COOK THE NOODLES FIRST! They will cook in the sauce as it bakes and come out with a much nicer texture and flavor than if they are cooked before hand. Then add a layer of ricotta cheese. Just spread it around with a spoon and use the whole container. Next add another layer of noodles, another layer of sauce, and then put in the vegetables (with the juice from the pan). Put on another layer of noodles (this should use up the rest of the box) and then the rest of the sauce. On top of that, put a liberal quantity of mozzarella, making sure to cover the whole thing. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees and bake for exactly an hour. For the first forty five-minutes, cook with aluminum foil covering the top so as to not burn the cheese. After forty-five minutes, remove the cover and bake for the remanding fifteen. Option: I add fried tofu to the sauce and love it. I realize some people suffer from tofobia, so this can be skipped all together. Definition: TVP stands for texturized vegetable protein. It can be gotten at any health food store and if you haven't tried cooking with it yet, you should, its really great. If you would like more ideas on how to use TVP, send me a note. J0OTTE01%ULKYVX@BITNET.CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU ~ Easy Rider ~ Article 16959 of rec.food.veg: Path: usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohi o-state.edu!samsung!emory!utkcs2!utkux1.utk.edu!kevin From: kevin@utkux1.utk.edu (Kevin Dooley) Newsgroups: rec.food.veg Subject: Re: VEGAN: Down Home Lasagna Message-ID: <1991Jun28.164700.13437@cs.utk.edu> Date: 28 Jun 91 16:47:00 GMT References: <1991Jun28.093436.635@ulkyvx.bitnet> Sender: usenet@cs.utk.edu (USENET News Poster) Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center Lines: 10 > - 1 (or 2 if you want) containers of ricotta cheese > - 1/2 pound (or more) grated mozzarella cheese Not a flame, just an observation: the recipe sounds delicious, but unless these are non-dairy cheeses, it really isn't vegan (as your subject line claims). -- Kevin Dooley kevin@utkvx.bitnet | Beef: It's worse than smoking kevin@utkux1.utk.edu | and easier to quit! Article 16978 of rec.food.veg: Path: usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ukma!vlsi!ulkyvx.bitnet!j0otte01 From: j0otte01@ulkyvx.bitnet Newsgroups: rec.food.veg Subject: Re: VEGAN: Down Home Lasagna Message-ID: <1991Jul1.101615.657@ulkyvx.bitnet> Date: 1 Jul 91 10:16:14 EDT References: <1991Jun28.093436.635@ulkyvx.bitnet> <1991Jun28.164700.13437@cs.utk.edu> Organization: University of Louisville Lines: 13 In article <1991Jun28.164700.13437@cs.utk.edu>, kevin@utkux1.utk.edu (Kevin Dooley) writes: >> - 1 (or 2 if you want) containers of ricotta cheese >> - 1/2 pound (or more) grated mozzarella cheese > > Not a flame, just an observation: the recipe sounds delicious, but unless > these are non-dairy cheeses, it really isn't vegan (as your subject line > claims). Point well taken. I sometimes forget that what my parents refer to as being vegatarian means simply no meat. I think I'll change the name to Down Home Meatless Lasagna. Thanks. Jesse Otterson -- Abort, Retry, Fail, Panic? P According to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Don't Panic. Abort, Retry, Fail? F According to teachers at SIUC, don't fail. So what am I supposed to do? *****