Turkey Lasagna with whole wheat pasta

[GregGraves]

Tonight we're cooking turkey lasagna using a lean ground turkey meat, and whole wheat pasta. To make up for those two healthy items, we added a part-skim Ricotta cheese as well as a Mozzarella cheese. I love lasagna, but only eat it a few times a year because of all of the cheese. I try to eat healthy, but there are times when taste is good too.

[alice.b.toklas]

Sounds like a pretty good trade off of taste vs healthy eating to me. Everything in moderation is my view. I avoid most fats in foods but would enjoy a nice small piece of lasagna. One has to enjoy tastes ya know. Italian food is notorius for being laden with fat. To me it looks like your choice of turkey and low fat cheese cut that back to an acceptable level.

[TexasRose]

I agree, everything in moderation.

And really, Italian food isn't as laden with fat as one might think. Not real Italian food, anyway. Italians eat a lot of grilled lean meats, and the pasta servings are reasonable compared to what we get here at Macaroni Grill and such places.

[cinnamon]

Hey Texasrose. I agree with you. It's the "American" Italian foods that are are fatty.

Lasagna sounds yummy to me. I had a neighbor that made it with cottage cheese instead of Ricotta cheese. I've always used Ricotta, and wonder how it tastes with cottage. They seem like similar cheeses.

[TexasRose]

Cottage cheese isn't a bad substitute, but I prefer ricotta.

[cinnamon]

I had a neighbor who made lasagna with cottage cheese and for some reason I thought they were just trying to cut costs. But now that I think about it, they cost about the same price. While I see recipes around for lasagna that call for cottage cheese, they somehow don't seem like genuine lasagna to me with the ricotta cheese.

[Mama Mangia]

I don't like lasagna with cottage cheese at all - no one in my family does either. Cripe, if I were to make it that way I would be excommunicated from everyone! Ricotta cheese - it's the best. There is so much you can do with it! I made a batch of it last week and it "disappeared" before I could stuff shells with it! But we enjoyed it!

[JKander]

I don't like cottage cheese, but lasagna, I like lasagna. I forgot had to spell it and had to check the title of the topic to make sure I was right.

[cinnamon]

Originally Posted by JKander

I don't like cottage cheese, but lasagna, I like lasagna. I forgot had to spell it and had to check the title of the topic to make sure I was right.

Ih you use the Google Toolbar, there is a spell check option on toolbar that will check the post before you submit. The only trick is you have to hit stop spell checking before submitting or you end up with a mess of a post that you'll either edit to correct or delete and start over. No big deal once you understand the steps involved.

[Raquelita]

That sounds really good! We always add spinach to our lasagna, and you can also use tofu with the ricotta cheese (or even in place of it at times) b/c it is creamy and absorbs the flavors of the food around it .