If you were making bolognaise...

[DorisLessingsCat]

With 1kg of good quality beef mince, how many adult portions would you expect to get?

I'm feeling disappointed with my batch cooking efforts.

500g mice would give us 4 portions for dinner and another 2 for later in the week.
Only ever add carrot and onion though.

Mince , that should read.
I do not cook mice.

8 dinner serves with 2 small lunch bowls for the next day!!

WTF are people calling bolognaise?

I have a Italian book which uses Double cream and chicken livers in the Bolognaise Sauce-It is the nicest Spag Bol we have ever had!!!

Probably about 10, the pasta is the 'biggest' component. We stir the meat sauce into the pasta, rather than dumping a whole load of meat sauce on top.

WTF are people calling bolognaise?

Why do people on MN add lentils to bolognese? I love lentils - but with mince? Isn't it too sludgey?

I decided to go authentic and use chicken livers once.

Unfortunately I misread the quantities and instead of 100g I used 1,000g.

I basically made pate Bolognese. It was as disgusting as it sounds.

The house smelt hellish for about a week :(

Holy fuck, moogly. A KILO of liver?!

The thought of a kilo of liver in a bolognese has made me feel queasy

Jeezo Pate bolognaise

Aren't you supposed to put cream in bolognaise?

A kilo of liver?

What did Dr. Lecter say about that?

I had never heard of putting lentils in a bolognese before this thread!! Is this a normal thing people do?!

This serves 4 and is lovely. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/nov/25/how-to-make-perfect-bolognese

According to some poncey Italian chef youcan add cream but he is the same man who suggested chickenlivers so you know

I'd get 12-16 portions out of a kg of mince but I suspect this is because I use the sauce to dress the pasta rather than serving it in the middle?
A couple of ladles of bolognaise can dress a family sized pan of pasta.

I prefer more meat/sauce and less pasta so get less portions out of it than I could otherwise.
Too much pasta makes me bloated.

Oh and use tagliatelle, not spaghetti.

6 here.

I'm low carbing so I just have the sauce

Celery can fuck off, stinky fucker.

Damn right!
Get thee behind me, celery.
And you can take those bastarding parsnips with you.

Celery is horrid raw but it makes bolognese taste so much better.

Logging broccoli use with 101

Criminal behaviour