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You wouldn't. Would you?

I spotted Lasagne and chips on the menu at a pub today (the big boys made me go in there - I didn't really want to).

PP

How about lasagne as I had it in Galway? Not just chips, but mashed potatoes, turnip and carrot, too.

At least there's some kind of meat there. A favourite in Glasgow is macaroni cheese & chips

I get offered that in my staff canteen. Sadly once I took it and it was actually really nice.

I quite like lasagne and chips - why wouldn't you have it?

Tesco did a lasagne sandwich for a short while - that was a sin against humanity.

I rather liked macaroni and cheese with a peanut butter sandwich when I was in school.

The crust in lasagna doesn't have to be made from wheat flour. You could use other flours, including garbanza flour. I a case like that, potatoes would be fine with it, as it wouldn't be too starchy.

You're going to have to explain "crust in lasagna" to me there, Paul!

To me, lasagne is made from layers of pasta, bolognaise sauces, and a cheese or bechamel sauce, with cheese on top.

I've certainly prepared 2 types of potato with a meal - Sunday dinners for the extended family will usually have both roast and mashed to cater for all tastes. And some people will have both, not just one.

Lasagne, I think, is moist enough with all the sauce, cheese and meat that I don't see much of the horror in having it with some other carby thing. Isn't it common enough to have it with garlic bread too?

People who are allergic to gluten will sometimes eat spaghetti made from rice flour or Jerusalem artichoke. I've seen these products in the stores. I've seen noodles made from mung bean paste. There must be a way to make or buy lasagna noodles made from some of the same things, or from chick pea flour. If no one will sell you lasagna noodles made this way, and you don't have access to a store that sells legume flours or rice flour, they might be available on the Internet. Some people make their own pasta, and they can make it from anything flour that's available.

Theyre all differnt tasting, texture combinations... So really don't see much of a problem... I mean no one flaps an earlobe at the idea of pizza and garlic bread, or pizza and chips, Like having both scrambled eggs and fried eggs, to go with teh black pudding sausages bacon, hash browns, fried bread, mushrooms and baked beans... they're so differnt in taste and texture, that even wehn, like for this example, they're both identicle, I.E., eggs, they're actually really rather differnt...

I mean... some people even put cheese in their sandwichs... cheese is the same as bread really... well, its all calories...

You're losing your touch, big lad. That sounded quite sane until the end.

Although I would answer "yes, I'd enjoy Lasagna and chips", I don't fully understand the question: Do you make Lasagna with potatoes over there?

If, as I think you may be, you're talking about carbohydrates . . .

Let's see . . .


potatoes - 19%
Peas - 14.5%
carrots - 9%


(data courtesy of wikithingy)

Lasagna - 13%

(calculated from this place: http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/meals-entrees-and-sidedishes/8060/2

Maybe the question should be "Lasagna and peas - or two types of peas in one meal."

What vegetable are you going to serve with lasagna?

And bread, a fairly traditional accompaniment for an Italian dinner, can go up over 50% carbohydrates.

To be honest, we usually have a Caesar salad (even though it's a Mexican thing) with Lasagna. Caesar salad comes in at about 6.5% carbohydrates according to this place: http://www.fitday.com/foods/s-fndds2-f72116140/caesar-salad-with-romaine.html

And, following along with 2legs' suggestion . . .



Who would want eggs in an egg sauce?




But, if you call it Eggs Benedict . . .

Yes, it's a question of carbs

I would always serve a nice luscious green salad with a lasagna; something with a bit of bite to the dressing and not too creamy. You don't need the bitter and fancy leaves in this one, just some nice big spinach, iceberg and romaine with a simple vinaigrette, perhaps with an extra squeeze of lemon.

B

If you google for Lasagna and chips you get an awful lot of hits, including this one: http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/where-can-i-get-a-good-lasagne-chips-in-brixton-this-dinnertime.278244/

It seems to be a fairly common and popular dish.

When I see a picture, a properly framed-and-lit picture, of food that I STILL find unappetising, I'm pretty sure that's not a good menu.

B

I don´t see a problem there. Spuds give you the calories you need and the tasty bits, whatever they are, make you want to empty the dish.Yumyumyum.

The thought of pizza or pasta and chips is quite alien, hilarious in fact, in German eyes, yet in Stuttgart and its surrounds they will serve potato salad with chips, which must be odd in anyone's books. They also eat lentils with Spaetzle, which seems rather too much of a muchness to me, too. I agree with the OP, except, as Bea says, you might serve roast AND mashed potatoes with a roast, to cover all bases.

Oh - eggs with egg sauce can also be egg salad with mayonnaise.

PS - Spaetzle is a form of pasta, I wrote an entry about them somewhere.

TC, I´m German and I hope you were joking - Kartoffelsalat mit Fritten?

I find pizza and chips, lasagne and chips, shepherds/cottage pie/hotpot and chips all a bit weird. Though I do love lasagne and chips, I actually find lasagne and a good salad more satisfying. Not *filling* like all those carbs (and I does love me carbohydrates, especially the starchy ones) but all-round more satisfying with the fresh greenery.

I'm a regular 'really?' commenter at the canteen at work. I thought the meals they present are supposed to be checked for being balanced and nutritionally sound...