"Spanish Lasagna" uh are you sure? Okay if you say so"

Oh my you know the ole saying that you can dress up someone and make them look like they have changed, but you can't take the inner person out of the them. Same applies here where no matter how you stack up the layers of corn tortillas and it is still a tortilla. Lasagna must have layers of noodles and meat in order for it to be considered lasagna. You add beans to it and you won't be able to fool a true lasagna eater. I am trying to picture your lunch and all I can think of is a fiesta type meal which is by far from Italian. I guess someone wanted to be a bit creative which is fine but please don't call it Italian. This does not tease my appetite and in fact I do make a Spanish type lasagna, with the same type of Italian style only I brown and season the meat with my Puerto Rican (sofrito) herbs to give the palette a wonderful taste combination.

I suppose that you have to give full marks to the cook for inventiveness but it seems he needs to be a little more careful with his use of English (and knowledge of Italian ... 'lasagna' means one sheet of pasta in Italian and the dish is always called 'lasagne' in the plural!). What you describe might have been termed Mexican but Spanish it is NOT! I suspect that, actually, he started out to make enchiladas but then gave up when he realised that it was going to take too long to roll that many enchiladas and just threw everything into a dish and baked it in the oven. I have come across many dishes in my time which are NOTHING like the original and, to recognise that, have been dubbed with some very strange and incongruous names. I think that "Spanish Lasagna" probably takes the biscuit.

Mmm, sounds interesting, so much so, that I looked it up and found this: http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1950,157167-253193,00.html It doesn't have the refried beans, but this recipe looks really good to me..

Well, I would call it an enchilada if it was me. However, my guess would be that there are people that say that they do not like enchiladas or Mexican food and because of the fact that they are supposed to feed the residents a certain type of menu, they have to come up with all kinds of creative names for dishes so that they can get the residents to eat the different meals. With that said, I guess you should at least consider yourself to be lucky that the food was edible.

I can imagine what was going through your mind. Greek food is often a very poor copy of Italian food. Your lunch wasn't even a copy! You can't beat the real thing. Italians do know how to cook tasty dishes!

It is not too much to say they are unscrupulous merchant."Spanish Lasagna" was plainly written on the menu, unexpectedly they served corn tortilla strips.It is just the same with a saying known for everyone here,"hang up a sheep's head and sell dogmeat."This infringed on consumer's rights,You could have complained about them to relevant agencies,according to reason.

How strange! I don't think I would have enjoyed it much, although I like Spanish food and I like (well, love) Italian food. Maybe if you'd closed your eyes and pretended that it was an enchilada? I agree, lasagna is an Italian dish, with Italian noodles and Italian seasonings, otherwise it's not lasagna. That's like calling something beef and barley stew but putting chicken and rice in it.

I have never tried it before. I have never heard of it. I think I would like to taste it though.

That dish doesn't sound that great to me if you ask me, not with the spices, etc. that you described. And you're right - lasagna is not enchiladas at all. Anyhow, I have always thought of enchiladas as a sort of Mexican lasagna. Any way you look at it lasagna and enchiladas are both a sort of casserole. Have a great day and happy myLotting!!!

Sounds like an enchilada casserole to me. Maybe they had a marketing guy name it? :D

I would have the same problem you're having with it, Hatley. Lasagna is lasagna and it is and always will be an Italian dish, dagnabit! They've done that with pizza, too. I can't handle all these specialty pizzas, some of which don't even have pizza sauce! They AREN'T pizzas! They're totally different things only put on a pizza crust so they call them pizzas. Hmmph! I've noticed more Spanish-type things being introduced into our organized, established cuisine. They are completely different foods so they should have completely different names and stop trying to pass them off as something like what we've always known. I've even seen ICE CREAM WITH JALEPENOS in them!!! That is so totally wrong on so many different levels my brain doesn't even want to try to process it. Ice cream with hot peppers??? NO WAY! I'm afraid that one day in the not-so-distant future every state in the US will be renamed "New Mexico" and Mexico will be renamed "Old Mexico." When my stepfather was very sick with congestive heart failure, I tried to give him a chuckle as often as I could to pick up his spirits a bit. I told this short joke to him and had him laughing hard: "A study was done among all Mexican people. It was found that 50% of them wanted to come to the United States. The other 50% were already here." Yep, we even have a completely Spanish (Mexican) aisle in the grocery store I shop in. I'm talking totally Spanish written on every package with NO English at all! Won't be long. Maybe we should all move to Mexico since it should be pretty vacant by now.

oh my lord. thats a trip. some way of introducing a new dish, huh. they should have explained the ingredients anyway. since you are diabetic and have to watch what you eat. but i guess if you figured it was enchilada tasting and looking and you like them. its ok. its strange tho.

That is quite a mixture of food culture. I would try it but it doesn't sound like lasagna to me either. Maybe we could call it enchilada pie..lol.

Looks like somebody got creative and attempted to create a Tex-Mexecanized Italian dish. I could understand your fine discriminating taste Miss Hately especially if you have been used to real authentic fine Italian cuisine before, your palate would simply reject a thing like that. It's like Americanized or Filipinized Chinese cooking, it's soso, good enough but a far cry from the real thing, that is if you know what Authentic and original Chinese cooking is all about LOL. I really think the bean and pasta combination is bad cooking sense cause both are starchy already so it's not really advisable to mix them together.Sour cream? Are you telling me they substituted sour cream for white sauce? hahaha, Oh authentic Italian is very expensive in our country and very few people have really ever tasted one, much less go to an Italian restaurant.