The pasta thread

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CGP1

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At the risk of having a state of Civil War exist between me and Allez, I'm a pasta lover, enjoy cooking my own. Here's a few quick easy ones that I eat regularly, be interested to hear your favourites:

Gently fry a diced onion and garlic, add about 10 halved cherry tomatoes and pitted green olives, plus a tsp of capers and a tin of mackerel fillets. Season it to death and cook until the pasta's ready then combine. I do it with linguine.

Gently fry a diced red onion, add a packet of diced pancetta and a tin of chopped tomatoes. Loads of black pepper, some chilli flakes to taste (careful, they're strong) and a bit of basil. Combine with cooked linguine.

Diced white onion and garlic, add a packet of diced chorizo. Add tin of chopped tomatoes, loads of chopped up mushrooms, loads of black pepper, oregano and a spoonful of half fat creme fraiche. Add cooked fusilli.

All great with loads of cheese on - I prefer Pecorino but more than happy with Parmesan or even Grana Padano as well.
 
Mouth watering reading that. Big pasta lover myself, most I make are tomato based due to ease of using chopped tomatoes, I love a creamy linguine though made with creme fraiche.

Cook your chicken and put to one side, cook some diced white onion and after 5 minutes add some diced courgette, for the final minute of cooking add your diced/grated garlic. Make the sauce with pasta water, creme fraiche and chicken stock - season all to your own taste, I keep it basic for this one with salt and pepper and some parsley over the top once finished, perhaps even a squeeze of lemon if I'm feeling fancy
 
Farfalle pasta (bow tie)

Fry leeks, garlic and finally chopped bacon and add to cooked pasta

Add grated cheese and warm single cream and stir together

Season with black pepper

Very easy, very tasty
 
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Pasta con le Sarde: Fry garlic, add tinned sardines, chopped tomatoes and chilli flakes, heat, then add olives, capers and parsley and cook for 2 mins. Stir into spaghetti. Cheese and black pepper.
 
For a quick-to-make tea I like boiling some spaghetti. In a wok saute some sliced mushrooms with pine nuts. Add torn ham and a few halved cherry tomatoes. Add the cooked spaghetti and a dessert-spoon of basil pesto. Stir well and season. Poor into a bowl. Top with any hard Italian cheese. Scoff.
 
Linguine, garlic, capers and anchovies. The anchovies make their own sauce.

For frugal foodies, a pack of cooking bacon, chopped and fried, with your homemade tomato sauce. Add chilli flakes and boom.
 
Pick up tin of ravioli.

Open as per manufacturers instructions.

Place in bowl in microwave

Full power for 2 minutes or as per manufacturers instructions.

Get bread slices (2)

Put in toaster

Toast as per manufacturers instructions.

Butter one side of each slice using Asda Value butter substitute.

Place microwaved ravioli on buttered toast.

Enjoy alone in bedsit inbetween tearful wanks.
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
Pick up tin of ravioli.

Open as per manufacturers instructions.

Place in bowl in microwave

Full power for 2 minutes or as per manufacturers instructions.

Get bread slices (2)

Put in toaster

Toast as per manufacturers instructions.

Butter one side of each slice using Asda Value butter substitute.

Place microwaved ravioli on buttered toast.

Enjoy alone in bedsit inbetween tearful wanks.
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Ambrosini's only after a betting coup?
 
Make my own pasta and sauces too. My favourite to make is tortellini or ravioli and you can fill with most things, mince, chicken, mushrooms, ham etc or a combination of anything. Try just an egg yolk!😉
 
CGP1 said:
CB - never done that. Talk me through how you do it?
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CGP1 said:
CB - never done that. Talk me through how you do it?
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2 eggs
100g of 00 type flour
Pinch of salt

Mix in a bowl
knead on a lightly floured surface for about 10/15 mins until pliable and if you press a finger in it should spring out
Wrap in cling film and put in fridge for 30 mins
Using a pasta machine, roll and fold through each number setting until the required thickness for the pasta you are making.

Word of note: It’s very easy to make and easy to handle. Very satisfying when it comes off so enjoy 👍
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
Pick up tin of ravioli.

Open as per manufacturers instructions.

Place in bowl in microwave

Full power for 2 minutes or as per manufacturers instructions.

Get bread slices (2)

Put in toaster

Toast as per manufacturers instructions.

Butter one side of each slice using Asda Value butter substitute.

Place microwaved ravioli on buttered toast.

Enjoy alone in bedsit inbetween tearful wanks.
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just add some value grated cheese and you have perfection! bravo.
 
Colonel Bogey said:
I make my own pasta, which is really easy to do if you have the time, and tastes so much better than the dried stuff.
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The fresh egg pasta you can buy is very good, I tried to make my own pasta and it was nice but not worth the effort and didn’t taste as good. I’m sure you are better at it than me though.

Jarred sauce however is a total abomination. How Dolmios managed to convince people to buy that sugary gash when you can make better with tinned tomatoes, olive oil and salt in 15 minutes I’ll never know.
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
Pick up tin of ravioli.

Open as per manufacturers instructions.

Place in bowl in microwave

Full power for 2 minutes or as per manufacturers instructions.

Get bread slices (2)

Put in toaster

Toast as per manufacturers instructions.

Butter one side of each slice using Asda Value butter substitute.

Place microwaved ravioli on buttered toast.

Enjoy alone in bedsit inbetween tearful wanks.
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F*** me Lytham, I've read some funny stuff of yours over the years, but that one's right up there.

Is it OK to use alphabetical spaghetti instead, and is there any truth on the urban myth that every tin has all the letters? What do I do if I can't find the w and k?
 
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Lytham_fy8 said:
Pick up tin of ravioli.

Open as per manufacturers instructions.

Place in bowl in microwave

Full power for 2 minutes or as per manufacturers instructions.

Get bread slices (2)

Put in toaster

Toast as per manufacturers instructions.

Butter one side of each slice using Asda Value butter substitute.

Place microwaved ravioli on buttered toast.

Enjoy alone in bedsit inbetween tearful wanks.
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😂😂😂
 
CGP1 said:
F*** me Lytham, I've read some funny stuff of yours over the years, but that one's right up there.

Is it OK to use alphabetical spaghetti instead, and is there any truth on the urban myth that every tin has all the letters? What do I do if I can't find the w and k?
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Tinned spaghetti is borderline to be honest, we're not philistines, have some self respect..
 
Cut up Aubergine, Mushrooms, Red onion, cherry tomatoes (left whole), Red and Yellow Peppers, Fresh Chilli and garlic, put in a bowl, mix with plenty of Olive Oil and salt and pepper, put on a tray in a hot oven and roast for 40 minutes (Add mushrooms when you put salmon in)

Salmon Fillets in foil parcels with a little olive oil salt and pepper, put in oven for last 20 minutes of veg cooking.

Orzo Pasta cooked in boiling salted water for 11 minutes, strain and mix in roasted vegetables and salmon.

Or my speciality.... Chilli chicken with Cheese:

Make the tomato Sauce: One brown onion chopped fine, garlic and hot fresh chilli chopped, fry in olive oil, when soft add tin of chopped tomatoes, juice of half a lemon, salt and pepper and..... 7 (yes 7 - trust me) teaspoons of sugar bring to a simmer and add plenty of chopped fresh Basil.

Take 2 skinless, boneless chicken breasts, place in a smallish deep sided oven proof dish, pour over tomato sauce and then cover in plenty of fresh grated Gruyere Cheese and parmesan,Place in oven 160c and cook for 45 minutes.

Cook your favourite pasta, put in bowl and top with the Chicken and sauce. My signature dish, everyone loves it.
 
Tin of anchovies, 10 pitted green olives, clove of garlic, spoonful of pine nuts, lemon zest, olive oil, handful of parsley. Blend it all together with a splash of water and when you've drained the pasta, chuck it back in the pan with the sauce for a minute or two. No cheese, pinch of black pepper.

Devour in an uncivilised manner.
 
Last night I made my take on one I used to have if we went to Bella Italia.

Diced chicken fillet, then garlic chestnut mushrooms diced aubergine and spring onion in plum sauce, with penne.

They did it with duck but I couldn't find any cheap enough so went with the chicken and it worked fine.
 
CGP1 said:
Last night I made my take on one I used to have if we went to Bella Italia.

Diced chicken fillet, then garlic chestnut mushrooms diced aubergine and spring onion in plum sauce, with penne.

They did it with duck but I couldn't find any cheap enough so went with the chicken and it worked fine.
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Sounds quackers.
 
1 white onion, 1 fresh red chilli, 5 cloves of garlic, one tin of anchovy fillets, a tablespoon of capers, 2 tablespoons of sliced black olives - fry everything off in the oil from the anchovy fillets then add a tin of plum tomatoes and reduce until the tomatoes have broken down.

Add spaghetti (I prefer wholewheat), top with parmesan and black pepper.
 
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