Thursday, September 20, 2007
Lasagna Overload
Lasagna was never what you would call a lean entree. With ground beef, ricotta and mozzarella cheese, pasta, and tomato sauce, a typical restaurant portion delivers roughly 100 calories, 20 grams of sat fat and 2000 mg of sodium.
But some restaurants have beefed up the already heavy dish. At Romano's Macaroni Grill, the result is Twice Baked Lasagna with Meatballs - " six layers of tender pasta stuffed with seasoned meatballs, three cheeses and Bolognese sauce."
Stuffed with 1360 calories,38 grams of sat fat, and 3900 mg of sodium, that is. Never mind that the dish is worse than 5 pork chops. Or that the numbers do not include the bread that comes on the side.
Why stop there? Maybe next year, some enterprising Italian restaurant will offer up a LaFredo Pie - lasagna with meatballs on a bed of fetuccine alfredo, all sitting atop a sausage & pepperoni pizza.
