Everything Pasta
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Topic: Everything Pasta
Posted By: Madiandmini
Subject: Everything Pasta
Date Posted: 08 October 2010 at 3:16pm
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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  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 08 October 2010 at 4:55pm
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my sister and her kids like tuna in their pasta... a bit of mustard powder in the cheese sauce for the mac and cheese is nice too... my husband is a bit of a traditionalist and doesnt like it when i experiment with pasta. my kids love it plain! ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: KirstyLeigh
Date Posted: 08 October 2010 at 5:53pm
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. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: Madiandmini
Date Posted: 08 October 2010 at 5:56pm
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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! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: KirstyLeigh
Date Posted: 08 October 2010 at 5:59pm
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!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Madiandme wrote:Posted By: Flutterby
Date Posted: 09 October 2010 at 9:24am
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I love having watties morrocan tomatoes with risono shapes and plenty of cheese on top
And love doing pasta bakes. Just cooked pasta, cooked veges mixed in with a brought tomato sauce, sprinkle cheese on top and bake till golden. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Rovic
Date Posted: 09 October 2010 at 1:55pm
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With my glut of tomatos last year I made a roast tomato pasta sauce. Can't find the recipe now ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com"> 
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, 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. Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 09 October 2010 at 2:36pm
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i use the chicken tonight mushroom sauce quite a bit. I use either pork or chicken, cut into small pieces, brown it and add some mixed veges and then the sauce then add it to cooked pasta, my fave is penne, then add cheese and breadcrumbs to the top and bake it... mmmmm!!!! ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 09 October 2010 at 2:37pm
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oh and my standard mac n cheese has boiled egg, bacon, tomatoe. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: fire_engine
Date Posted: 09 October 2010 at 2:56pm
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My spring favourite is bacon, red onion, garlic, pepper, asparagus, avocado and feta. Lots of veges and very yummy. No sauce needed cos the av has lots of oil in it. ------------- Mum to two wee boys |
Posted By: _H_
Date Posted: 09 October 2010 at 5:23pm
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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 ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Madiandmini
Date Posted: 10 October 2010 at 9:43am
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Yummo, thanks all. Keep the inspiration coming
H_ do you find you needa leave the tuna in the pasta a lil while for the flavours to soak through..? Or is this just me lol ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: _H_
Date Posted: 10 October 2010 at 12:25pm
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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 ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Mucky_Tiger
Date Posted: 10 October 2010 at 4:52pm
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Pasta Salad - Sweet and Sour
2c shell pasta (i use half a bag - can do macaroni or other small pasta - penne and spirals a tad too big) 2 tomatoes (or 3 smaller ones - use it all juice/slush is fine too) 1 chopped onion (very fine as its raw) 1 small green capsicum diced (optional) 1 cucumber diced (optional) Chop veges, mix with cooked pasta Sauce (I double this to go with 1/2 bag of pasta): ½c sugar (or slightly less - 1/2C for a doubled recipe is good - can be too sweet for some people) ¼c oil (or slightly less - turns out too slimy when cold if too much is used) 1/3c tomato sauce ¼c wine vinegar 1t paprika Salt & pepper Mix together and heat for a few seconds to dissolve sugar. Pour over veges and pasta WIll keep in a covered container for 3 days in fridge. --------- I like to heat it up to eat it but thats my preference as i like the sauce warm but its very yummy cold too. |
Posted By: Mucky_Tiger
Date Posted: 10 October 2010 at 4:59pm
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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 ------------ 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 |
Posted By: RedHeadDuck
Date Posted: 10 October 2010 at 5:22pm
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Basil Pesto Pasta:
Basil pesto (I buy with sweet chilli sauce) can of tomatoes onion tablespoon sweet chilli sauce, or more if you want it spicier :D Salami Chicken breast Could also use bacon instead of salami, cut up sausages, sometimes I add peas, or capsicum or just whatever :) I cook all this up in the fry pan then throw through some cooked pasta Then bang it in the oven for 10mins with some grated cheese on top YUM
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Posted By: RedHeadDuck
Date Posted: 10 October 2010 at 5:25pm
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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 |
Posted By: Madiandmini
Date Posted: 10 October 2010 at 7:01pm
Oh yum! Will def be trying a few of these this week  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Nutella
Date Posted: 14 October 2010 at 9:39pm
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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. ------------- 
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Posted By: bopmum
Date Posted: 15 October 2010 at 12:56pm
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Yum! DP and I love pasta meals too!!
Chicken, cream, tin of tomatoes, one of those dips that has cashews and Parmesan with either basil, sundried tomatoes etc, chuck all together in a frying pan, serve of fresh pasta. Very quick and easy meal. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: kellie
Date Posted: 15 October 2010 at 5:53pm
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When I use tomato based sauces I add a little bit of grated cheese to the simmering sauce, makes it taste really yum :)
Chicken cabonara is an easy one to make as well. Its just chicken, onion, bacon, cream, bacon, mushrooms and fettucine. Fry the bacon, onions and mushrooms first and put to the side....brown the chicken in a big pan, add the cream(you can substitute some of the cream with milk as well) add the bacon and mushrooms and simmer for 20mins. It's also nice to cover the raw chicken with cornflour first, then cook but you don't have too. You can also add whatever veges you want to it. ------------- 
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Posted By: SpecialK
Date Posted: 20 October 2010 at 3:35pm
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Oh yum, I love pasta! These are my faves:
Garlic, white wine, tin of tomatoes, prawns, parsley on spaghetti. Red onion, garlic, diced fresh tomatoes, diced fresh zucchini, prawns on spaghetti. Onion, bacon, mushroom, peas and cream on seashells. Tin of tuna in olive oil whizzed up with a bag of rocket and some lemon juice in a food processor, on fresh pasta (I use cut up lasagne sheets). Have a random lasagne creation for tonight, will see how it goes: Mince sauce: chicken mince sauteed with onion, garlic, mushrooms, white wine and sour cream. Cheese sauce: cottage cheese mixed with cooked chopped spinach, two eggs, grated cheese, and a wee bit blue cheese. Layered between fresh lasagne sheets, with some chopped tinned tomatoes poured over the top and more grated cheese and parmesan sprinkled on top. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: KirstyLeigh
Date Posted: 20 October 2010 at 4:57pm
This sounds AMAZING!!!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: rachndean
Date Posted: 20 October 2010 at 10:49pm
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We love doing pasta for the kids on nights that we get home late. Cook some pasta up. In a frypan saute onion, garlic, add pasta and chopped cherry tomatoes, basil leaves, silverbeet, mushrooms; whatever you have in the fridge (or vege garden), throw in drained tuna/salmon or cooked chicken, fold through some cream cheese. Season with salt and pepper mmmmmmmmm. We literally use what =ever we can find, have had it with carrots, brocolli, snowpeas...... the kids love it! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: ereynolds
Date Posted: 27 October 2010 at 12:57pm
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YUM! One that I love and is so simple to make is just pasta, olive oil, a sprinkling of pine nuts and a little cooked spinach. yum! ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: shesmiles
Date Posted: 30 October 2010 at 11:51pm
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mmmm pasta.... my fave is cooking an onion, button and brown mushrooms and adding home made parsley pesto - which involves tonnes of flat leaf parsley from the garden, pine nuts, parmesan, olive oil and garlic. Is a shame parmesan is so expensive, but I don't use much and sometimes use walnuts or raw cashews which are cheaper than pinenuts. I can't wait for bubs to be born so I can eat it again ( as such volumes of parsley are supposed to be avoided during pregnancy). ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: kellie
Date Posted: 01 November 2010 at 8:29pm
You could use basil or coriander instead, thats what I do. -------------
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Posted By: shesmiles
Date Posted: 03 November 2010 at 9:39pm
Only problem is - I can't grow either of them as prolifically as I can grow parsley Maybe this summer ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: clover
Date Posted: 04 November 2010 at 1:57pm
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Love pasta!
My basic pasta sauce is a sauteed onion, garlic, chilli flakes, balsamic vinegar, tomato paste, tinned tomatoes and a bit of concentrated chicken stock. I then use that as a base for lots of variations. Others I love are: Creamy smoked chicken pasta Chicken stock (reduced down in a frypan) Creme Fraiche Dijon Mustard Chives Smoked chicken breast Sundried tomatoes Parmesan Ham lasagne rollups take fresh pasta sheets and place some sliced ham and grated cheese in the middle then roll up (kinda like a canneloni). Put them in a baking dish with some of the following sauce on the bottom and the rest on top 2 tins tomatoes garlic onion cream mushrooms olives Yum yum yum Sausage pasta is the old standby My basic pasta sauce as above, spiced up with extra chilli flakes added to sausages that you have removed from their casings and fried (like little nuggets) mixed with penne. Oh, and I nearly forgot, my absolute favourite for summer is fresh tomato spaghetti Punnet of cherry tomatoes chopped in half and mushed in a bowl so the juices run out tons and tons of chopped basil one small clove of garlic (normally like tons but it is raw so go gentle) Extra virgin olive oil Red wine vinegar Salt & Pepper ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: tiptoes
Date Posted: 08 November 2010 at 9:31pm
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I love pasta too, especially carbornara:
Garlic, bacon, paprika, cream, fresh pasta, parmesan, eggs and a bit of salt and pepper. Mmmmm quick and easy and super tasty! ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com">  
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Posted By: Raspberryjam
Date Posted: 19 December 2010 at 2:48pm
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pasta salad - I use the big tuna tins that are flavoured - savoury onion is the best - then add peppers, cherry tomatoes, olives and parsley - goes down a treat at bbqs
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Posted By: BriAndOlisMum
Date Posted: 19 December 2010 at 3:48pm
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yum these sound so good.
got a question tho, does anyone know where to get more interesting pasta from (not macaroni, spirals fettuccine, spaghetti) like shapes and stuff. or alphabet etc. -------------  http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: Raspberryjam
Date Posted: 19 December 2010 at 6:08pm
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countdown has a brand called barilla - i got a gnocchi shape which is great ------------- http://lilypie.com]
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Posted By: jaz
Date Posted: 24 December 2010 at 10:13pm
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We are big on tomato based sauces made with fresh ingredients.
Olive oil, fresh garlic, red onion, canned italian tomatoes, salt, pepper, balsamic vinegar and loads of fresh basil. Served on fresh (not dried) pasta with shaved parmesan cheese and a few more fresh basil leaves. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: bridgetc
Date Posted: 07 January 2011 at 2:57pm
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We love this nigella one
Fry an onion and 2 sliced chorizo in olive oil, add garlic and saute, meanwhile cook pasta (thin macaroni is good), throw everything together with tin or canellini beans, and tin of tomatoes plus half the tin filled with water from the cooked pasta. Keeps well, usually make on Friday and eat all weekend. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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