I found this 'amended to lower potassium' recipe. Maybe this will help?

Here is a link that might be useful: Amended Lasagne-la-francaise

I have that cookbook... and I checked the index, no such recipe... and I had DH check both the index and contents to make sure I didn;t miss it. Of course, he found several thing I now need to make for him, but that is besides the point LOL!

I would love to help... but????

Alexa

You need to find the recipes for The French Chef 1133-1166: "The French Chef," Series 3

It seems I have the cookbook that begins with "The Fourteenth Show" Chicken Breasts and Risotto and does NOT have your recipe in it..... I hope someone has the other versions that will have your recipe. In any case, my DH thanks you because he will have wonderful food coming his way in the next few days!

Alexa

Thank you all. I will keep looking. There was a link to the Food Network but it came up pretty much blank (or blanc?)

The episode was very, very early. She was not in her kitchen in Cambridge (the one that's now installed at the Smithsonian - high on my "to visit" places). She was not exactly comfortable with the camera (nor it with her) and the labels on the ingredients were handwritten in magic marker.

Ci lantro - thank you for looking that up. She also put a tomato sauce on top of the dish. And she did not know what the Italians called ricotta.

I felt for her during the part of the episode I watched. She was not entirely comfortable doing it. I admire her for her devotion to her craft and passion. What an interesting life she had.

seagrass

OK, Seagrass, I found this from an Amazon review of From Julia Child's Kitchen:

From Julia Child's Kitchen' by the great culinary teacher, Julia Child, is an account of the recipes from the second major PBS `The French Chef' series, filmed in color in the WGBH Boston studios, just as the book, `The French Chef' covers recipes from the very first black and white series of shows...

For example, the two sauce "Lasagne a la Francais" is unlike any Lasagna you've ever had--but wonderful--and makes perfect sense once you've been through the earlier recipes in the book on whose techniques it builds...

Sooo, if the show you just watched was in color, then the recipe is probably in the From Julia Child's Kitchen book.

The bad news is the book is out of print and real pricey--starting at $72 from Amazon resellers.

Is this it? Looks very good.

Tomato Sauce: Cook 1 cup minced onions in a 2 qt. saucepan stirring until tender  remove half and reserve for the white sauce. Stir in 2 large, chopped tomatoes, cover and cook. Drain 2 cups of canned crushed tomatoes. Stir in herbs (thyme and bay leaf), 2 cloves of garlic, a pinch of saffron threads and ¼ - teaspoon dried orange peel, and salt and pepper to taste. Simmer slowly, partially covered for 30 minutes, adding juice from the canned tomatoes when needed.
Boiling the Lasagna: Drop 10 to 12 curly lasagna into boiling water, add salt and some olive oil and boil slowly, uncovered for 15 minutes until al dente (or chewy). Drain and rinse in cold water and hang on edge of colander until the other components are ready.
White-wine onion sauce: Blend the reserved ½ cup onions with 6 tablespoons of butter in a heavy 2 quart saucepan over moderate heat. When butter is bubbling, blend in 8 level tablespoons of flour at once and cook, stirring for 2 minutes without browning the flour at all. Remove from heat. When mixture has stopped bubbling, pour in 2/3s of a heated mixture of milk and stock (3 to 3 ½ cups) all at once, blending with a wire whip. Blend in more, leaving about ½ cup for later. Beat in 1/3-cup dry wine and set over high heat, stirring until sauce comes to a boil, continue for about 5 minutes. Thin out with remaining hot mixture if necessary until the sauce can coat a spoon. Salt and Pepper to taste.
Assembling the lasagna: Line the bottom of oiled baking dish with a layer of lasagna. Reserve 1 cup for top of lasagna later; spread 2 to 3 spoonfuls of white-wine onion sauce over the lasagna. Spread half the green vegetables (1/2 well-seasoned cooked, chopped green vegetables  broccoli, asparagus and/or spinach). Sprinkle 3 tablespoons of grated mixed cheese, a mixture of 1-½ cups of cooked chicken, pork or turkey, and (optional) 1 cup diced mushrooms sautéed in butter. Spread over this a few tablespoons of white sauce. Cover with another layer of lasagna, and spread (same measurements) over the rest of the vegetables, more cheese, the remaining meat and mushrooms. Spread final layer of white sauce, cover with 1-cup ricotta cheese and finish with a covering of lasagna. Tuck ends of lasagna into edge of dish. Mask top with white sauce  spoon tomato sauce over the top and sprinkle cheese all over.
If not baking immediately, cover and refrigerate. Bake in the upper third of a preheated 400 oven for 30 minutes.

I think Tracey has it right. I found the same one on the blog linked below, which seems to be from that cookbook:

Here is a link that might be useful: blog with French Lasagna recipe

Yes, yes!! Tracey & petaloid - merci beaucoup!! She said that the saffron and orange peel were optional and she did not use them. She only used spinach, but a lot of it, along with the sauteed mushrooms and chicken and the cheeses along with all of that wonderful white sauce. The tomato sauce was only used sparingly on the top, and she said you could serve more on the side. And she assmbled it all in a shallow, oval gratin pottery dish. It was quite rustic looking.

I am going to make this soon for a dinner party. It will be a nice change of pace.

Wow, Ci lantro - $72 for the cookbook. I'm going to keep an eye out for it once the flea market starts up again this spring. The show was in color, so that must be the one.

Alexa - what are you cooking for your DH??

Thanks to everyone for your sleuthing. I'm very grateful.

seagrass

Seagrass, check out AbeBooks.com....it's available for $37.25.

jude

You are very welcome. Can't wait to hear how it turns out!
Tracey

Seagrass--Check eBay for it. There are several copies for auction for much less--I checked yesterday after I had already posted the info about Amazon.

Yes, I thought about eBay. I will also look at AbeBooks. I bought the 2 volumes of Mastering the Art of French Cooking as a newlywed. But I don't have any of her other cookbooks. I loved reading "My Life in France". I read it when we were in France. I've not yet seen the Julie & Julia movie. I think it's available on DVD now. I'll have to fight my husband for the portable player. We can't agree on anything to watch together. Consequently, no movie-going for the 2 of us.

Thanks again for all of your help and consideration.

seagrass

I actually have this recipe in the actual book. I found it on amazon a couple of years ago for $5.89! I bought it just because of that episode. The lasagna is about the best ever.. I usually double the mushrooms up though!