This is a fantastic recipe! I keep looking for a new recipe for lasagna and none come close to this one which, by the way, I have always used except I use my own homemade sauce. Can't beat it.

This is a basic Italian lasagna recipe, has been for about the last 60 years or more in my family. The "gravy" would be made with meatballs, hot and sweet Italian sausage, chunks of pork or ribs, sometimes a beef shank, and pepperoni. The top level was always two sheets of pasta dough and the lasagna was baked till well done. The top part was supposed to be hard, that's why they put the two sheets with sauce between on top. It was for certain old school Italians like my Grandmother and father who ate it like a cracker! They had a name for it but I forgot it. Plus it kept the lasagna moist after in fridge. If there were leftovers we ate it cold in slices too on Italian crusty bread or even wonder bread in my lunch box. Love a good lasagna and really hate the frozen ones. This isn't hard to make..the sauce is the hardest part. We always ate lasagna or any pasta with Italian bread and fresh grate block of parmigiana cheese. Bread was almost used like a utensil by my father and grandmother as they ate they would push food and scoop up stuff with the bread. Don't know why but we have always had Creme de Menthe Parfait for dessert after lasagna. I think it might be to help digesting all the lasagna?