pasta sauces

[dora the ex...]

now AG i know you will be able to help me here seen as you eat it every day :wik: i need some ideas also how to make pasta sauces beth loves pasta and will eat it as it is but i like it too i just need to learn how to put sauce on it... help me and fill me with ideas please...i love the packet of pasta sauces but thought this would be more fun and better

thank you x

[Chocolate Lips]

I like all kinds of pasta sauce as long as it is cheese :wik: Delia does a good receipe for a cheese sauce you can make with any kind of cheese.

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/any-kind-of-cheese-sauce,1169,RC.html

[Narcissa Malfoy]

Start with a basic tomato sauce -

Chopped onion and fry until soft, fry off a bit of crushed garlic - add a tin of chopped toms and tomato puree to taste. Then add some Swiss Marigold Bouillon, basil and/or oregano and S&P to taste. Add a splash of water and simmer until thickened.

Now you can add what you like - roasted peppers, olives, tuna, bacon, ham, chopped sausages, whatever (lol - not all together!!!!!!!!!!)

Also try this very easy lunch dish - half cherry tomatoes and oven roast in Olive oil. Cook pasta. Get the toms very well done and then in the dish stir in a good bit of mayo and add the pasta. It is lovely!

Oven roasted veg mixed in with a little of the basic tomato sauce and little cubes of mozarella is nice too.

I also love cheese sauce Joanna! Lovely with finely chopped fried onion and bacon in!

[Chocolate Lips]

Cheese sauce is just the best, I could drink it.

We are not very tomatoey people in my house!

I also like a creamy white wine and mushroom sauce with my pasta!

[dora the ex...]

oo i love cheese sauce too thank you ladies x

[Angel]

NM - I make my tomato sauce almost identically to you but I fry onion, garlic, finely chopped carrot and celery for about 10 mins before adding anything else. A good way to get extra veg into the little one :laff: Adding tuna and courgettes to this is my fave after the good old spag bol.

I love macaroni cheese especially with leeks and bacon in it.

Roasted cherry tomatoes done with some seasoning and balsamic vinegar and then stirred into 1/2 tub of melted philadelphia and then mixed with pasta is totally lush.

[dora the ex...]

that sounds lovely angel..

[Sarah]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE... the sainsburys passata in a glass bottle. I buy the one with garlic and onion.

If you wanted to pep it up abit, you could add a chilli to it (Arribiata style).

Recommend this lots! And it's only 60p ish for a large bottle. 1 bottle would certainly be enough for tea.