paulr

I love spaghetti,but am bored of spag bog,spaghetti with potatoes and spaghetti with tuna (in Dolmio sauce btw).............

any more suggestions,must be simple.

cheers
Paul.

Jap2Scrap

Spaghetti with potatoes? Christ that sounds exciting.

ProperCharlie

pesto + bits of bacon and parmesan cheese.

PG

tomato sauce and shaped in to letters of the alphabet ?

paulr

Its quick and i get fruit and veg for free.

Iain Young

Spaghetti with chunks of ham, onion, mushroom, a touch of garlic, and a fresh cream sauce

ProperCharlie

chicken and mushrooms in cream and white wine sauce is good, but it may be excessively gourmet for the OP.

paulr

"fresh cream sauce"........how do you do that?

is there any alternative to dolmio totato sauce?

Brendan Hughes

olive oil, heated flakes of salami, and rough-cut chunks of lightly fried garlic, with lots of ground black pepper.

ProperCharlie

yes:

lloyd grossman tomato sauce
tesco value tomato sauce
tesco's finest tomato sauce
sainsbury's own brand tomato sauce
etc

hth

paulr

Very much so,but where do you get them from?

ChrisB

Pasta with fresh home made meat ***** with a tomatoe sauce (could be mozarella or basil / herbs).

hail-hail

Any type of Campbells condensed soup makes good sauce for Pasta, chicken and mushroom being a particular favorite

Mr.Manchester

I have it with sainsburys pork meatballs made by "swiss kitchen" i reccomend you try it

richardg

garlic, fresh chilli, 1/2 an onion, italian seasoning, salt, pepper, couple of tablespoons of chopped tomatoes (or fresh chopped tomatoes if you're feeling adventurous) and a large dash of vodka, all fried in a pan and then poured over the spaghetti. little bit of sour cream is nice too!

David Lock

There's a nice recipe involving clams. Don't have details to hand but I am sure Google recipe dept will help.

SJ_Skyline

- Wild Boar Ragu (courtesy of Carluccio's )
- Fry up some bacon, onion and garlic and mix it in well with the pasta
- Fry up some "Spinks" hot smoked fish, prawns, onion, anchovies, garlic and mushrooms and mix with your pasta. Looks a total mess but tastes great

SJ_Skyline

Baby clams, white wine, garlic, cohpped shallots and sprinkled with fresh chopped parsley.

richardg

heat some extra thick double cream (or fromage frais), on a very low heat or it'll spit everywhere - chuck in a few different types of cheese, all cut small so they melt quickly; add lots of black pepper, little bit of salt and then a handfull of chopped mushrooms. always good accompanied by a very cold glass of pinot grigio! also good with or without bacon/pancetta/tobasco etc. once eaten, fall asleep within 5 mins! when you wake up, go to the gym...

David Lock

Thanks SJ,

Hungry now (plus some garlic bread to mop up sauce)

richardg

you can't beat angel hair spaghetti and clams! mmmmm

SJ_Skyline

Garlic Bread -

HTH

David Lock

Can we have a recipe forum???

richardg

was just thinking this has turned out to be a bl00dy good thread!
very hungry now though...

SJ_Skyline

Heres last nights recipie: SJ's Sausage Casserole:

edit: You need a great big F-off cast iron casserole dish for this one!!

2 finely chopped carrots
2 finely chopped leeks
1 large onion roughly chopped
4 finely chopped garlic cloves
1 large sliced baking potato
8 rashers roughly chopped backon
8 sausages of your choice
1 small glass red wine
1 1/2 pints beef gravy
1 oxo cube
1 bouquet garni
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tsp dried rosemary
1 tsp dried thyme

Grill the sausages until they are browned all over and then set aside. Fry the bacon, onion & garlic, when the bacon is cooked, add the red wine and cook over medium heat for 3 mins. Add the herbs and bouquet garni, add the veg and potatoes add the gravy and sprinkle the stock cube over the top, add the sausages and give it all a good stir. Stick it in the oven for 1 - 2 hours.

Job done

popeye

Once saw Delia do spag with just Olive Oil, chopped chiili, crushed garlic and pepper - works really well.

ChrisB

That sounds good rich - you should be using fresh herbs though, none of the dried stuff

Robert Rosario

Some dried are fine though, oregano for example, but if you are looking at using basil then fresh is the way forward.

To endorse what somebody else said, campbells chicken and mushroom soup is great with pasta, add some tuna to pasta/spaghetti with the soup is a nice flavour, or if you want an oven baked disk, as described, but put some cheese on top, ideally something with some flavour, red leicester for example, whack it in the oven for 20 mins fairly hot, and job is a good un.

paulr

That sounds good........

Brendan Hughes

My, how SN changes. A year ago it was Atkins this, Atkins that - you'd never see a spag recipe!