my favorite food is italian.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Lasagne (; ; singular lasagna) are wide, flat pasta, and possibly one of the oldest types of pasta. \"Lasagne\", or the singular \"lasagna\", commonly refers to a dish made with several layers of lasagne sheets alternated with sauces and other ingredients, such as meats and cheese. Lasagne originated in Italy during the Middle Ages and has traditionally been ascribed to the city of Naples. The first recorded recipe was set down in the early 14th century \"Liber de Coquina\" (\"The Book of Cookery\"). It bore only a slight resemblance to the later traditional form of lasagne, featuring a fermented dough, flattened into a thin sheet, boiled, sprinkled with cheese and spices, and then eaten with the use of a small pointed stick. Other recipes written in the century following the \"Liber de Coquina\" recommended boiling the pasta in a chicken broth and dressing it with cheese and chicken fat, or in one case walnuts, in a recipe adapted for the Lenten fast. The traditional lasagne of Naples, \"lasagne di carnevale\", is layered with local sausage, small fried meatballs, hard-boiled eggs, ricotta and mozzarella cheeses, and sauced with a Neapolitan rag\u00f9. \"Lasagne al forno\", layered with a thicker rag\u00f9 and B\u00e9chamel sauce and which corresponds to the most common version of the dish outside Italy, is traditionally associated with Emilia-Romagna.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "My boyfriend loves lasagne and I want to make it for him but I don't know where to start!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I can help out with that! I make lasagne at home a lot. It's one of the oldest pastas."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Awesome!  Hold on while I while I grab a pen!  I want to write this down - what do I need to buy at the store?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "You want to look for thin sheets of pasta, tomato sauce, ground beef, and shredded mozarella cheese."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Great!  I will get that at Walmart!  Anything else?  What kind of pan do I need?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "You can use any old pan, but I'd recommend a glass dish, so you can see the layers. One tip is to boil the pasta in chicken broth."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow, that sounds like a great idea!  I have some chicken broth cubes in the pantry!  So once I get it all assembled, how long do I cook it for?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, you cook the pasta until it's soft, but after layering, you bake it for about 30 minutes. Instead of ground beef, you can also use sausage, which is traditional of Naples."}, {"role": "user", "content": "You've been a big help!  This is going to be great!  I can't wait to see the surprised look on his face when he sees I actually can cook!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Tell me how it goes! As an added surprise, I would recommend adding some ricotta or small meatballs, just like \"lasagne di carnevale\""}]