Everything Pasta

Okay so I love pasta, alot. I love it hot or cold and would really love some new flavours to add to my recipe base.
So whats your fav pasta sauce or pasta dish? Not just jars either, I would really love to hear what you put in your homemade pasta sauce to make it super special

Anything from good old mac n cheese to fancy fettucine and even whats in the sauce that makes your lasagne so heavenly!!

TIA

I am a HUGE fan of mac and cheese, and have been experimenting lately. I now fold slices of tomato and slices of hard bolied eggs in with the mixture before sprinking with (HEAPS of!) cheese and baking. Yummm

The pasta bake sauces from Dolmio (I think?) are also delicious, I like the cheesy tomato one.

Madiandme wrote: The tomato with extra cheese by any chance KirstyLeigh?? That ones amazing! And your mac and cheese sounds amazing! My DD would eat an entire plate of plain pasta shapes LOL!

Yesss!! It's SO good! I have it at least once a week, as well as mac & cheese

I used to be just like your DD when I was little, plain pasta was my absolute favourite, never wanted any sauce! Haha!!

With my glut of tomatos last year I made a roast tomato pasta sauce. Can't find the recipe now , but was something like 1kg 1/4ed toms, a couple of capsicum sliced, a red onion sliced, ?????.  Anything else you want I guess. Sprinkle with olive oil and slow roast at 150 degrees for an hour or so. At the same time roast a bulb of garlic sprinkled with olive oil in a piece of tinfoil in the same dish as other veges. When cooled, whizz veges together (squeeze garlic out of skin), add salt and pepper and fresh basil leaves, whizz and voila! Freezes really well and is so yummy, even my fussy DH loved it.

oh and my standard mac n cheese has boiled egg, bacon, tomatoe.

a really yummy but basic one- cooked pasta, a can of tuna (i get the flavoured ones) baby rocket and cherry tomatoes. the sauce/oil from the tuna flavours it

depends on how hungry im am! lol but it is better when you leave the pasta/tuna for a bit then put everything else in

Pineapple Macaroni Cheese

1 450g can crushed pineapple
1T instant chicken stock (or 1 oxo cube)
6T flour
1/4 Bag macaroni elbows
2c grated (tasty) cheese
3 rashers bacon/ham
2c boiling water
75g butter
Salt & pepper to taste
Optional : Bread crumbs on top
1. Cook the pasta.
2. Drain pineapple and keep the juice
3. Dissolve the chicken stock in the boiling water.
NB: if using premade liquid chicken stock use 2c and omit stock and boiling water.
4. Melt butter in saucepan and stir in flour, salt and pepper.
5.To make the sauce add the juice and stock 1c at a time. Heat and stir after each addition (Same process as making white sauce)
6. Spread ½ the macaroni over a buttered dish, sprinkle half the cheese and half the sauce. Repeat again.
7. Top with crushed pineapple and sauce.
8. Layer bacon on top. Put bread crumbs on top at this stage if using.
9. Bake for 30 min at 180* or until bacon is crisp

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Freezes fantastically and is a low dairy alternative to normal mac n cheese.

I usually double this to feed 3 adults who have big meals and it leaves one small plate of leftovers

Smoked Chicken pasta:

Buy one smoked chicken and pull it apart to toss through
Sachet (or 2) of creamy chicken pasta (mis through cream before you put it in the pasta)
Bottle (or 2) of cream (Depends how many your cooking for). Or can use milk if wanting something lighter
Capsicum/peas/corn/bacon whatever you want to make it unique

Then throw it all through cooked pasta and warm up in a pot, YUMMY.
We usually serve with herb bread or garlic bread

I like to make pasta bakes, I cook the pasta and then I also saute various veges, whatever is in the house. Then add a can of lentils (or could do from dry lentils) and a can of tomatos, add in some herbs and black pepper. Sometimes I will then make a white/cheese sauce and put that on top of the pasta bake along with cheese and pumpkin seeds (or whatever seeds) then shove in the oven lol.

The lentils are a secret trick to bulk up pasta and half the time people don't even notice they are in there.

Oh yeah, if I am feeling kind I might make two and one I stick pepperoni sausage chopped up in for DH (I'm a vego). And if I am feeling flash I might add olives and capers and sun dried tomatos etc.