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Who puts olives and mushrooms in lasagna?

Posted on 6/28/22 at 2:05 pm
Posted by prplhze2000
Parts Unknown
Member since Jan 2007
51426 posts
Posted on 6/28/22 at 2:05 pm
Friend made some and made an extra pan for me. Eat it and ugh, it has mushrooms and olives. Just RUINS the taste.
Posted by mylsuhat
Mandeville, LA
Member since Mar 2008
48940 posts
Posted on 6/28/22 at 2:10 pm to
Mushrooms ruin nothing and belong in everything



Olives can GTFO tho
Posted by Darla Hood
Near that place by that other place
Member since Aug 2012
13950 posts
Posted on 6/28/22 at 2:11 pm to
What kind of olives? Years ago I put chopped black olives (not a lot) in a lasagna, based on a recipe I was trying. It was good, and no one who had some seemed to be aware of that ingredient.
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
15154 posts
Posted on 6/28/22 at 2:21 pm to
Mushrooms, but never olives in my lasagna. My usual recipe is to use loose ground beef and small balls of Italian sausage.

If in the mood for meatless lasagna(rarely), I'll pull some Swiss Chard from the garden and use it as a spinach substitute and it comes out great.
Posted by Mo Jeaux
Member since Aug 2008
58800 posts
Posted on 6/28/22 at 2:38 pm to
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Mushrooms ruin nothing and belong in everything


Actually, it's the opposite.
Posted by armsdealer
Member since Feb 2016
11508 posts
Posted on 6/28/22 at 3:03 pm to
Vegetables don't belong in Lasagna unless they are in the gravy... as in you can't detect them any longer.
Posted by jchamil
Member since Nov 2009
16511 posts
Posted on 6/28/22 at 3:07 pm to
I put mushrooms and green olives in my red gravy for spaghetti
Posted by Zappas Stache
Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
Member since Apr 2009
38713 posts
Posted on 6/28/22 at 3:07 pm to
I've experimented with olives but I didn't love it. I do put a small amount of shrooms and artichokes in there. My lasagna is vegetarian so I have other veggies in there too.
Posted by VABuckeye
Naples, FL
Member since Dec 2007
35564 posts
Posted on 6/28/22 at 3:11 pm to
No. Never. Blasphemy.

Meat bolognese, bechamel, cheeses, pasta.
Posted by LSUBoo
Knoxville, TN
Member since Mar 2006
101920 posts
Posted on 6/28/22 at 3:16 pm to
I love olives, but still wouldn't put them in a lasgna.

Mushrooms just belong in the woods or in the trash can.
Posted by Aubie Spr96
lolwut?
Member since Dec 2009
41150 posts
Posted on 6/28/22 at 3:21 pm to
Pioneer Woman Greek Spaghetti


I've made this once and it was different, but very good. I haven't remade yet and dialed it in to my tastes, but we definitely liked it.
Posted by LSUballs
RayVegas LA
Member since Feb 2008
37761 posts
Posted on 6/28/22 at 3:24 pm to
I have a buddy who puts olives in his chili. It's pretty friggin good.
Posted by Demshoes
Up in here
Member since Aug 2015
10203 posts
Posted on 6/28/22 at 3:29 pm to
Mushrooms make everything more delicious. Olives are disgusting.
Posted by L Boogie
Texas
Member since Jul 2009
5048 posts
Posted on 6/28/22 at 3:42 pm to
SO puts mushrooms and black olives in his spaghetti and it's delicious so I imagine I would like it in lasagna as well.

I love both of those things, though.

Green olives? I LOVE green olives and I put them on my pizza so I imagine I would like that, too.
This post was edited on 6/28/22 at 3:44 pm
Posted by tigercross
Member since Feb 2008
4918 posts
Posted on 6/28/22 at 4:17 pm to
I've never had that kind of lasagna, but I'd be willing to try it. Olives and mushrooms go great with red sauces.
Posted by Sidicous
Middle of Nowhere
Member since Aug 2015
17185 posts
Posted on 6/28/22 at 6:50 pm to
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Who puts olives and mushrooms in lasagna?


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.

Posted by Saskwatch
Member since Feb 2016
16571 posts
Posted on 6/28/22 at 7:10 pm to
quote:

it has mushrooms and olives


Growing up a can of mushrooms and a can of black olives went into the spaghetti sauce. Still prefer it like this. I assume it would be an equally good addition to lasagna
Posted by GCTigahs
Member since Oct 2014
2038 posts
Posted on 6/29/22 at 6:19 am to
Funny you mention this. My wife cooked lasagna last wk and I told her all it needed was some mushrooms and black olives. She looked at me like I had just beat our dog! I showed her this thread this morning and we both had a good laugh.
Posted by prplhze2000
Parts Unknown
Member since Jan 2007
51426 posts
Posted on 6/29/22 at 6:37 am to
Totally overwhelmed the "Italian" taste.
Posted by Treacherous Cretin
Columbus, OH
Member since Jan 2016
1503 posts
Posted on 6/29/22 at 1:16 pm to
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Mushrooms ruin nothing and belong in everything

Do you put them in your potato salad? How about your gumbo?
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