Based on the Veganomicon recipe, and I'm sorry this picture is terrible
I don't think I've ever made a non-vegan lasagna. I remember the first one I made, the lasagna from How It All Vegan. It was four or five years ago, when I was living in Philly. My roommate at the time, Phil, had made it once before. Phil was a much more ambitious cook than I was at the time. I cooked far more often, but I usually made things like pasta with Trader Joe's marinara sauce doctored up with meatless meatballs and frozen vegetables. When Phil cooked, he made things like vegan lasagna and vegetable tempura and chilled fruit soup, and they always turned out great. I think we ate most of the pan of lasagna the night he made it.
So when I finally made the lasagna for myself, it was the most complicated thing I'd even made. I even made the sauce from scratch. I think it took me all day, and it was delicious.
Now, of course, I've made several lasagnas, and when the boyfriend requested one, I thought "Sure, that sounds good." I decided to make one loosely based on the Vcon lasagna. I cheated and used sauce from a jar, and I added some nutritional yeast to the cashew ricotta because I love me some nutritional yeast. For the veggies I used frozen spinach, swiss chard, carrots (I shredded them up), and frozen mushrooms, and I sauteed them all together in olive oil with some salt and pepper. I topped the whole thing off with a mixture of bread crumbs and nutritional yeast - I've been putting this on top of everything since then, too, it's so good.
It still took me three hours to make this even with prior lasagna experience, and halfway through I realized that I was making a ridiculous amount of food and had to invite everyone I know over for dinner all super last minute. But my boyfriend said it was the best lasagna ever, and my friends all liked it, so it was totally worth it.
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