Homemade lasagna is near and dear to my heart. I consider it one of my specialties, and it was the first meal I ever cooked for my husband (who was my boyfriend at the time). Almost 10 years later I still love making this recipe for us, especially over the weekends, because everyone knows lasagna is one of those meals that is just as good if not better the next day.
As you all know because of COVID-19 we have all been staying home and social distancing. I was trying to limit our grocery store trips and ordering out, and we had leftover sloppy joe meat, so I thought it would be a great idea to make us lasagna and use the sloppy joe leftovers as the meat for the lasagna.
I also used oven ready lasagna noodles that do not need to be boiled first. This plus using leftover sloppy joe meat cut the prep time in half – otherwise boiling the noodles and browning meat usually takes at least 20 – 30 mins.
You can also not use any meat for this recipe, and it would be a vegetarian cheese lasagna that is also delicious.
Check out the recipe below with a step-by-step pictorial from my Instastories – I screenshot these from the video clips I had posted live while making the lasagna last week.