This bread lasagna is easier to make than a traditional lasagna, because instead of cooking pasta, you use sliced sourdough bread! It’s one of those “aha!” cooking moments that completely changes how you think about a dish.Layered with sauce, cheese, and sweet zucchini, this lasagna recipe has just 6 ingredients, and it’ll probably be the easiest lasagna you’ve ever made.Plus, it’s so brilliant and tasty, I might just prefer it over lasagna made with pasta! Giving Credit Where It Is Due  I stumbled across this genius idea while watching Lidia Bastianich on one of her shows (honestly, that woman is a treasure trove of Italian wisdom), and let me tell you – my mind was completely blown.

Lasagna made with crusty bread instead of pasta? It sounds almost too simple to be good, but trust me—trust Lidia!—it’s gooooood.  She calls it Zucchini Parmigiana, but in my mind, this is a lasagna! She even drops the word lasagna in the episode.(I can’t remember which episode it was, but here’s a YouTube video of her making it so you can see the lady herself at work).  I love watching Lidia’s cooking shows, not just because they remind me of the old-school stand-and-stir cooking shows of my youth (ah, youth), but also because she never fails to teach me something new.Her cooking feels very authentic and a lot like how we approach Chinese cuisine—using what you have on hand, prioritizing seasonal vegetables, cooking without waste, and makin

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