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-Message-Text-Follows- Someone ask for a Lasagna Recipe ???? Just so happens I made some Tuesday night! 3-4 Cups Homemade Meat Sauce (tomato sauce, ground hamburg, sausage, peppers,                               onions, mushrooms, and favorite spices) best if left to sit a day or two in fridge to develop better flavor Please don't substitute Ragu or *anything* like it 1 box Lasagna pasta 1 quart ricotta cheese 1 or 2 eggs (depends on your diet I guess 1 pkg Fresh spinach - washed and stems removed 2-4 cloves garlic 2 Tbl butter @ 1 cup freshly grated parmesan or romano cheese   1 lb mozzarella grated or in small thin chunks sweet sliced sausage (cooked) and/or sliced eggplant (raw or slightly sauteed) ========== Boil lasagna until done, rinse and set aside.   Saute the crushed garlic cloves in the butter in a saucepan, add the spinach and let cook down.  In a bowl mix the ricotta cheese, egg(s) and parmessan/romano cheese together.  Add in the spinach after it's cooked down, and mix well. Cover bottom of large rectangular cooking dish (I use corningware @ 16 x 8, I think ?) with a thin _layer_ of the meat sauce, add a _layer_ of pasta (3 wide or so), another _layer_ of meat sauce and then top it with either slices of sausage or eggplant, then another _layer_ of pasta, smooth out half of the ricotta mixture and top with some of the mozzarella, another _layer_ of pasta, meat sauce, sausage/eggplant, ricotta, last _layer_ of pasta, meat sauce and mozzarella. You can _layer_ it anyway you like, it always tastes the same to me no matter what I put where.  I've used sausages, veal cutlets (real good), and eggplant (breaded and fried) in lasagna as fillers besides cheese and meat sauce. The batch I made the other night took almost 1 1/2 hours to heat (cook) through @ 350.  The more you pile into your pan the longer it takes to cook, for medium sized lasagna I'd suggest 45 minutes to an hour @ 350 F. Oh and don't forget to tuck in or cover any exposed pieces of pasta as they tend to dry up and get hard if not buried in the sauce. enjoy! Erik   Cooking is *my* therapy, what's yours ?