You can always add ricotta or cottage cheese as a layer to your lasagna in place of the other cheese or in addition to.**VEGAN OPTION: Substitute the Meat layer with veggies! Sliced Mushrooms and zucchini or squash. Substitute the cheese layer with extra firm Tofu (drained/pressed) and hummus. Mix together and add as layer, putting veggies on top.Your layering should go as follows:9x13 baking dish, very thin layer of spaghetti sauce on bottom of dish, noodles, spaghetti sauce on top of noodles, tofu & hummus mix, veggies, spaghetti sauce, noodles, spaghetti sauce, tofu and hummus mix, veggies, spaghetti sauce, noodles, and finally spaghetti sauce as the top/last layer.***DAIRY FREE CHEESE can be used in place of the regular cheese layer.****VARIOUS MEAT OPTIONS: Use Ground Turkey instead of ground beef. Pork sausage or Italian sausage instead of ground beef.OR Add ground sausage and ground beef together.Whatever meat you’d like in your lasagna can be added. Whatever cheese you’d like in your lasagna can be added. Meat and Cheese can be completely taken out. This dish can be altered to fit your diet in so many ways.

For those that like eggplant, this is a southern Italian dish that is layered and served on a bed of linguine or fettuccine. It is a meat-less dish that can also be used in a baked Italian sandwich roll (without the pasta), as an “Eggplant Parm-Sub.”

The key to great Italian food is great sauce...as long as you have that, the rest is gravy, so to speak. (but I call it SAUCE, LOL)

Who doesn't like chicken parmesan? This is delicious and easy!

I have seen a lot of different Italian pasta salads, so I decided to try and do one but I couldn't find the one that I wanted to try, so I ended up just buying stuff that I wanted in it. Nobody in my household would try it besides myself and my youngest daughter. She loved this so much that she kept asking for more. The only thing that she picked out of it was the tomatoes. I will definitely do this again, but I think that I might make a few changes just to make it different. The ham for instance, didn't really go with because I had gotten honey ham. I think regular ham would be better.

This is not Italian food.

A classic is a classic for a reason, so this version doesn't mess too much with an already perfect marriage of ingredients. I did have to use linguine instead of the traditional spaghetti, because I ran out of spaghetti. And I also used basil instead of Italian parsley, out of preference because I like the extra freshness from the basil. Other than that, this is my Italian nonna's puttanesca. If I had an Italian nonna.

If you prepare the meat beforehand you can make this dish very easily.Use a ratio of about 1.5 times of mashed potato to the amount of meat sauce (at most). The tomato sauce I used here was a gently flavoured one. Adjust the seasonings according to the tomato sauce you use. Recipe by kebeibiko

I love to grill the eggplant with olive oil, salt and garlic powder,but always like to try different recipes and add more ingredients, and try to avoid meet,this is the perfect and delicious way.

I wanted to make a main course without meat and this is it. After I have dined out several times, I make this to settle my stomach.You can use dry lasagna sheets instead.Add onions, mushrooms, and any vegetables you like! For 3 to 4 servings. Recipe by Yumitchell

This is one of many versions of my pasta salad. I call this one pizza pasta, so my kids will eat it, if it has the word pizza in it my kids will eat it lol!!! This always disappears quickly , everyone loves it when I bring it to a cookout, bbq, or a family event pot luck.. I like to make this for picnics and short day trips when I take a cooler. This is definitely my go to pasta salad, and so easy and quick.