URGENT: Pasta bake help.

SCR Pedro

willhub wrote:

Why do you cook the sauce? Dont you just wack it in the pasta then put in oven??

Put all of the ingredients into a pot and you'll see why It needs to be cooked before it becomes a sauce otherwise your dinner would be a lumpy mess. You can still put the dish into the oven to melt the cheese on top.

Go give it a shot. After a hard day of riding, it's to die for!

Elganesh

I can see I'm going to have to hand out some advice here before willhub's tastebuds kill him.

There's plenty of easy to follow, cheap recipes on the net. Good sites are the bbc and bbcgoodfood. Both have recipe searches which you can refine according to budget, style and ingredient.

However, the most important thing in the whole of cooking is seasoning i.e. salt and pepper as it brings out the flavour of the ingredients.

The second is have no fear! Try new foods with new combinations and new ways of cooking. Chefs wouldn't be half as busy as they are if more people learnt to try new experiences.

As a good student cookbook I recommend "How to Boil an Egg". Seriously, this is what my mum bought me when I went to university and it stood me in good stead.

I want to see a nicely browned roast chicken on your next post willhub!

finchy

Elganesh wrote:

As a good student cookbook I recommend "How to Boil an Egg".

Aaaah, the student classic. Memories, memories...

deadliest

My favourite was always a huge pan of rice with a tin of vegetable soup mmmmmmm Squatters Rice

alfablue

The cheapest way to make a pasta sauce is to use tinned tomatoes, make a large batch and freeze it. If you can cook you will get far better results than anything in those gloopy jars! A halfway house (more expensive but quicker) would be to base your sauce on Passata (pureed and sieved tomatoes). You can get a litre pack for maybe 60 pence, and it will be a good base for your other ingredients.

jellybellywmb

I agree, Big pack of passata goes a long long way,
If you have a big supermarket near you go there at about 8 Oclock and head for the hot Deli, i picked up whole roast chicken from Morrisons for 52p.

So you can have roast chicken, then chicken pasta bake and should have enough left for a chicken rissotto.

A normally priced whole chicken for £2.99 (dont tell hugh fernley whatsitthingy) goes a long long way if you get every scrap of meat off it.

Anonymous

Why are they only 52p at 8 in the morning? Why do they increase the prices?

huggy

I think he means 8pm, after it's been sitting under the counter all day

jellybellywmb

Sorry should have said 20:00 they have not been there all day as I think there is a bit of a time limit but they get cheaper and cheaper the longer you leave it.

In my opinion rather than throw all the food away that is at its sell by date they should give it to the homeless and students.

I was in a big buffet restaurant in Nottingham the other day and before they ditch all the left over food on the buffet they brought in about a dozen homeless guys in the back door gave em each a polystyrene tray and let them help themselves.
Spoke to the owner and he said that it stops them dragging it out of the bins and also stops customeres being hassled as they leave.

It restored my faith in human kindness for a short while.

singlespeedexplosif

As a good student cookbook I recommend "How to Boil an Egg".
IIRC it doesn't feature that student classic, toaster pizzas.

Set toaster on low setting, whack bread in.
When it pops up, spread toast with tomato ketchup. Apply a cheese slice, and if you're feeling particularly middle class, add a sprinkling of dried mixed herbs.

Put toaster on its side. Put 2 toaster pizzas in. Be ready with a plate for when the toast pops up (well, out). I find standing in a 'slip fielder' stance helps.

Best served stoned.

iain_j

So THAT'S why the fire alarms were always going off in the middle of the night at halls

hammerite

Will, as far as students go you are a master chef. We lived on rank microwave kebabs from farm foods, chicken kievs (always seemed to be bogof) and doritos with melted cheese and tomato ketchup for the whole 3 years.

Anonymous

Well today I got hungry, and I decided I need to stock up on energy as I want to do a nice bike ride on Saturday where I am not tired out.

So I got some left over penne pasta, some instant noodles, I ate the curry powder, then I put the noodles and penne pasta in a pan and cooked it, then wacked it in a pan and added 5 eggs wisked with cheese, and made this masterpiece

It was slightly bland, needed some more flavoring. Tasted ok, it broke up as it was massively too heavy to flip



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/ ... C00170.jpg

pdstsp

And what do you call this masterpiece?

You do realise that 5 eggs might have a slightly "binding" effect on your insides don't you?

It does look quite good in a hooror film sort of way though.

Anonymous

pdstsp wrote:

And what do you call this masterpiece?

You do realise that 5 eggs might have a slightly "binding" effect on your insides don't you?

It does look quite good in a hooror film sort of way though.

A what on my insides???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????


Are you trying to scare me :shock:

STEFANOS4784

Salad cream woulda made that a master-piece 8) :arrow:

STEFANOS4784

BTW, did you just neck the curry powder :?: :shock:

Elganesh

willhub wrote:

So I got some left over penne pasta, some instant noodles, I ate the curry powder, then I put the noodles and penne pasta in a pan and cooked it, then wacked it in a pan and added 5 eggs wisked with cheese, and made this masterpiece

I can hear your arteries hardening from over here.

I take back what i said earlier, DON'T TRY AND COOK CHICKEN! :shock:

Anonymous

I'm sure it did not contain much saturated fat, I don't see how it would harden my arteries lol, especially since I burn all the stuff off cycling!

STEFANOS4784, yea I did, it was nice and spicy, I thought I might aswell, I did not want to waste it.

STEFANOS4784

willhub wrote:

I did not want to waste it.

8)

pdstsp

Binding = (potentially), clogging (in this example).

Good luck with Masterchef 2010 - "Cooking doesn't get sh***ier than this"

heavymental

Brilliant dish Will. My favourite bit is where you included eating the curry powder as part of the recipe.

pdstsp

Eating curry powder = Willhub does canapes

LazyBoycp

I thought this had dropped far too far down the list of threads, given that it's comedy gold.

What sort of stuff have you been eating recently, willhub? One favourite meal from my student days was to boil up loads of rice, then add a tin of tuna, a couple of boiled eggs, mayo and mustard and then mash it all up. Mmm... Vaguely like kedgeree.