Salmon and Basil Lasagna

If your image of lasagna is a heavy dish of cheese, meat, and red sauce, try this version for a surprise. Splendidly extravagant for special occasions, the dish stacks layers of salmon with wide ribbons of pasta and a creamy basil-laced cheese sauce. We developed the idea originally for our book Sublime Smoke (1996, The Harvard Common Press), and it has remained a personal favorite ever since.