If your child's DT teacher asks for vinegar...

[WhoWants2Know]

Which sort would you buy? It's for a chickpea and tomato pasta dish. I don't generally put vinegar in sauces, and the supermarket has about 10 different types, so I am mystified.

I use to take the sachets from coffee shops etc for school cooking days, mayonaise, mustard, sugar, ketchup, salt and pepper, all handy for those, recipes where you need a small amount. Also the little sushi ones as they have handy little etras.

@AtlasPine

So each child has to bring in a couple of tablespoons of vinegar? I wonder if it wouldn’t be easier for each child to bring 10p and one child buy the vinegar!

Check with your child! Stuff like this is usually provided by the teacher (for a very small fee -10p/20p)

@WhoWants2Know

I've put too much thought into this, haven't I? 😂 A recipe involving spaghetti hoops is not going to be saved by a splash of slightly better vinegar.

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Oh my god. She made the pasta. But when I read the ingredient list (attached) I hadn't quite processed the fact that the teacher was expecting each child to use 6 cloves of garlic! The poor teacher who had that class next...🤣

Boak that sounds disgusting

What the hell?! That recipe is gross.
Why spaghetti hoops? Just boil some pasta.
And 6 cloves of garlic?

The actual recipe does have a lot of garlic ...
Not sure why they used spag hoops when total time is 45 min with proper pasta - according to this recipe!

www.connoisseurusveg.com/pasta-e-ceci/

None of us would eat spaghetti hoops. No wonder people can't cook. Send in some cooked pasta. It will be much nicer.

WTF?

That's an abomination. It will be revolting and a waste of food. Spaghetti hoops?

What's wrong with standard dried pasta? It's hardly expensive, hard to come by or time consuming to cook.

I was so busy making sure I got everything that I didn't fully process what the hell the ingredients would make. That's so bad, it's funny.

Spaghetti hoops? Jesus wept. I despair.

Is that a Jack Monroe recipe?

cookingonabootstrap.com/2019/05/29/pasta-e-ceci-recipe/

I actually sent in tiny pasta shells instead of hoops, but the finished result wasn't as nice as the photo in the link.

Oh damn, it is Jack Monroe! 😂

That's possibly the most bizarre recipe I've ever seen! I might have to make it, I'm intrigued!

I remember being so excited for cookery lesson. I loved cooking. I was devastated when my teacher sent me off to buy a boxed cheese cake mix. I'd been supervised baking since I was 8, and from 10 left to get on as I pleased.
Mam sent me in with all the ingredients for a propper cheesecake and left me show off...age 12.
Teacher was fuming 🤣🤣🤣

@WhoWants2Know

I was so busy making sure I got everything that I didn't fully process what the hell the ingredients would make. That's so bad, it's funny.

It’s just lazy! A simple minestrone soup would have been easy enough. Or even an authentic pasta-e-cici which is what it was supposed to be!

Oh, I see she buys value spaghetti hoops and rinses the sauce off.

I can understand doing that if you only have 13 p to buy enough spaghetti for one dish (are they still that cheap?) and maybe soup pasta isn't available in every supermarket, although I would have thought you could get it in all the bigger supermarkets, but maybe not Aldi, Lidl and Tesco Metros etc, but surely the school could buy that and people pay for a portion. That would be the same or cheaper than the value pasta hoops anyway - I often buy soup pasta or Orzo and it's 50 pence a pack for loads, probably 5-10 students.

Hopefully they do this for the vinegar too, rather than having people bring in teaspoons of it, it would probably evaporate or leak anyway.

They sent all the extra ingredients back home instead of keeping them there to use for the term. So I guess they just carry them back and forth every time?

I get the idea of a budget meal using cheap, cupboard ingredients. But I think using 13p rinsed spaghetti hoops might be a false economy if you have to compensate with 6 cloves of garlic.

Yeah yeah yeah but which vinegar did you send?

I chose cider vinegar because it came in the smallest bottles. But if I had read the post about sending a cafe sachet first, I would have done that 😁