Spaghetti

[Cara Van Man]

What brands do you buy or do you make your own.

We make our own but the nicest one I've had lately is a garlic and basil linguine made by ASDA. Fantastic!

Highly recommended.

[grumbledoak]

a) you're supposed to be tied up in a shed, or something.
b) it's normally the sauce that is flavoured.

[Lost soul]

grumbledoak said:

b) it's normally the sauce that is flavoured.

Exactly , i like the natural plain pasta and spice up the sauce

[Cara Van Man]

grumbledoak said:

a) you're supposed to be tied up in a shed, or something.
b) it's normally the sauce that is flavoured.

Maybe not eh...

True, but it adds an extra dimension..

[grumbledoak]

Got a link to a picture of this strange sounding linguini (I am trying, without much success).

[Cara Van Man]

sorry no.....

it's very dark green and the smell of basil is really intense.

[HRG]

You might get more replies if you post in The Lounge...


















Oh wait

[Cara Van Man]

HRG said:

You might get more replies if you post in The Lounge...

Seeing as it's food related, I thought this was the appropriate place

[Engineer1]

Tesco cheap and cheerful is good as a base sauce to improve with additional ingredients

[sleep envy]

you eat that st?

either Di Cecco, Barilla or I make my own

regardless what sauce you use low quality pasta will always taste, IMO, horrid

[grumbledoak]

Engineer1 said:

Tesco cheap and cheerful is good as a base sauce to improve with additional ingredients

What type of sauce is it? If you've got basil linguini you wouldn't need much more than a tin of tomatoes, some garlic, and some cheese as a topping...

[Cara Van Man]

Engineer1 said:

Tesco cheap and cheerful is good as a base sauce to improve with additional ingredients

no way!!!!

You use processed sauce?

Do you not cook from fresh?

Gosh.

I guess this is wasted on you then

[Cara Van Man]

sleep envy said:

either Di Cecco, Barilla or I make my own

My fave is to make my own.....cheers for the recommends....I'll try these.

The ASDA one is good IMO.....have you tried it?

[sleep envy]

nope, is it egg pasta?

[Cara Van Man]

sleep envy said:

nope, is it egg pasta?

Not sure.....ingredients say Durum wheat semolina, basil, garlic.

[sleep envy]

that'll be a no then

[HRG]

Go on then... What is a good mainstream brand that you're likely to find in the supermarket.

And don't say Papa Dolmio...

[Cara Van Man]

this is quite cosy and enjoyable....almost like the lounge

But without some of the turds.

[HRG]

Schhhhhhhh, they'll all want to come in here

[sleep envy]

HRG said:

Go on then... What is a good mainstream brand that you're likely to find in the supermarket.

And don't say Papa Dolmio...

basically any egg pasta

don't know if you can get the napolina egg pasta over here but that's worth trying as well as barilla

tbh it takes nothing to make your own if you have an imperia machine and a place to dry it

it freezes well too