It seems like many Italian dishes play off one another but they all have their own texture, taste, and appearance. Lasagna is a good example. It has a lot of elements from pasta but it has its own as well. That's what I made last night, and I think it turned out atrociously bad but I'm probably a perfectionist. I mean look at it.

It tasted pretty good too but I think it could of been a lot better if I did not run out of sauce half way through assembly. You should start out with...

• 2 1/2 teaspoons dried parsley 
• 4 cups shredded mozzarella cheese 
• 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 2 eggs 
• 1/2 a cup of water
• 9 lasagna noodles (depending on size of the noodles feel free to increase!)
• 2 1/2 cups of ricotta cheese
• 1 pound of ground beef (you can use turkey or chicken like I did)
• 1 (32 ounce) jar of spaghetti sauce ( I'd get 2 just to be safe)
• A 9x13 inch baking dish
• You can add spinach in-between the layers if you want

You can salt and pepper to taste but I think it's fine without it. 

Now you wanna start by pre-heating your oven to 350. In a frying pan put your ground meat in and let it brown on medium heat, drain the grease then put in 1 jar of spaghetti sauce and let them cook with each-other for around 7 minutes. This is your basic meat sauce. In a semi-larger bowl mix together 2 cups of ricotta, 2 cups of mozzarella, 2 eggs, 1 cup Parmesan, all of the dried parsley, and salt and pepper if you please.

Now we are going to assemble it, in your 9x13 inch baking dish pour 3/4 cup of your meat sauce and spread it evenly. Lay down 3 lasagna noodles, 1 3/4 of a cup of your cheese mixture and 1/4 cup of sauce. Repeat layers twice. Top off with 3 noodles and lay out the rest of your sauce, then cheese. Now this is an important part! Pour your 1/2 a cup of water along the edges of the lasagna, it'll help the noodles. Spray your aluminum foil with Pam or something similar and cover the lasagna with it, place it in the oven you pre-heated for 45 minutes. After, uncover and keep it in there for another 10, and once your finished that take it out and let it sit for another 10. Now it should be ready to serve! 

Mine needed more sauce as I explained but it wasn't bad.