re: Who puts olives and mushrooms in lasagna?

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Who puts olives and mushrooms in lasagna?

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I've told the story on the forums before ...

When I was almost 3 we moved from Winnfield to Tampa and the house wasn't completed even. Dad went down to the docks and hired an Italian immigrant middle aged handy-man to help him finish up the interiors. (Dad was a Civil Engineer who served in the Corps of Engineers before college helping rebuild stuff in Germany in the 50's and was born and raised in a dirt floor shack that was added to as more babies born, 10 kids total. The handy-man retired from the Hotel/Motel Industry in Tampa where he was Chief Maintenance Operations Officer for some of the posh high rise hotels on the bay.)

So this handy-man and his wife kinda adopted my family as their own while we lived in FL. The Mrs. gave Mom a bunch of her Old World recipes including lasagna from scratch. The only thing allowed not from scratch was noodles and that was just time and labor savings. It literally takes all day to cook the sauce, meat, etc. and assemble it properly in the right order. Always worth it to invite Dad's Bosses to dinner and serve them that. Dad never failed to get the raise or promotion he asked for over those lasagna dinners!!!

I can assure you, nowhere in the recipe is even a mention of mushrooms, nor olives.