The Best Best BEST Lasagna I Have Ever Eaten EVER

Ok, so that's not what the recipe is really called.  It's actually called Classic Lasagna and it came from the Best Recipes Ever (Canadian Living Magazine) CBC website.  I think I saw this episode of Best Recipes Ever on CBC when I was working part time and was home one afternoon.  It has become my regular lasagna recipe.  Once we tried it we never looked back.

You may notice that there are carrots in this dish.  Yes, carrots.  You read that right.  Apparently carrots, celery and onions are key elements in something called mirepoix.  I guess this is important.  I have never left them out, so for all I know the lasagna would be horrible without them.  Well, probably not, but why take chances?

The other ingredient I have not used in anything before is Italian sausage.  This is something I would never eat on its own, as it has some kind of spice in it that I don't really care for if I were to eat just a big old sausage, but it really gives the lasagna a distinctive flavour that I really like.  It wouldn't be nearly so good if you left out the sausage and used all ground beef instead.

I have mentioned in a previous post that I don't like nutmeg.  Well, this has nutmeg in it.  Just a sprinkle, but it's there and I wouldn't leave it out.

This is a very time consuming dish to make, but it takes almost no more time to make two than one, so I always make two.  Cook once, eat four times.  Yay!  One for supper and leftovers tomorrow, and one for the freezer for a day when I know I won't have time to cook anything good and we don't want hot dogs.  However, it does take a little planning ahead and I have to remember to take it out of the freezer the night before.  If I am particularly clever I will remember to put it in the oven at noon when I am home for lunch, and set the timer so we will have a nice, hot supper when we get home at the end of the day.

Tonight's supper scored four out of five thumbs from the family.  It was only Jane who wouldn't eat it.  I'm not sure why, as I am certain she has eaten it before.  Oh well, bread and butter for her and more lasagna for the rest of us.