I love Italian food -- eating it and making it. Do you enjoy it?
Yes I do!  I'm trying to find the perfect lasagna recipe.  I'm doing a lot of research.
Oh, I love lasagne. I make my own noodles as well as the sauce. 
Wow.  That's amazing.  I read where lasagne originated in Italy during the Middle Ages.  
I had no idea that it was that old! I wonder how the Middle Ages version resembles the lasagne we eat today. 
It featured a fermented dough, flattened into a thin sheet, and then cheese was added.  It was eaten with a pointed stick.  
You're kidding! So interesting. It sounds more like pizza on a stick than lasagne.
written in the century following the "Liber de Coquina" recommended boiling the pasta in chicken broth and dressing it with cheese and chicken fat. In a recipe adapted for the Lenten fast, walnuts were recommended.
The traditional lasagne of Naples, "lasagne di carnevale", is layered with local sausage, small fried meatballs, hard-boiled eggs, ricotta and mozzarella cheeses, and sauced with a Neapolitan ragù, a meat sauce. "Lasagne al forno", layered with a thicker ragù and Béchamel sauce, and
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