To be monumentally narked because DH dropped the carbonara sauce out of the fridge?

[ChickensHaveNoLips]

And it landed in a big splatty heap on the floor and the sodding dog ate it. And I'd been looking forward to it all day. Now he's saying I should have pesto. LIKE THAT'S THE SAME

Oh dear. You could make some more? Pesto is nice too...lots of parmesan on top and some peppers burnt on the gas added to it. Yum.

I don't like pesto. And, it was a bought tub of sauce. I'm not, er, blessed in the culinary department

You don't need to be very blessed for carbonara - have you got eggs and bacon and Parmesan?

I have eggs. But that's it. Bollocks. I do appreciate the attempt at help, though. Bloody hell, I really fancied that carbonara to accompany this wine

More wine, then. Maybe send him to the chippy :)

Poor DH is he mortified. Aw don't give him a hard time, it was an accident.

Just make him buy you your favourite take away tomorrow :)

Let him know that there is only one way he can make it up to you...

He isn't that mortified, tbh. More bemused by my :( face. It was an accident. Like the accident I might have with his fillet steak tomorrow

you know carbonara sauce is just eggs?

Cook bacon bits with garlic, throw into pan of drained spaghetti, crack eggs in, hoosh about, throw pecorino or parmesan ontop and black pepper.
Et voila, proper carbonara.

Or make him go for a curry. Pesto, indeed!

Leave the bastard for one who can make carbonara

But yes just make some carbonara fresh like sassy said. Yum.

THIS.IS.TERRIBLE. Gutted for you

I feel your pain. Pesto definitely isn't carbonare sauce . I would have been crying livid!

what sassy said, and add some cream too..

This isn't funny you know? Some people have never even had carbonara/can't afford it/have a DH who drops things a lot. Won't you think about the suffering before you post a light hearted OP?

Put him on a maintenance wash.

(home made carbonara is a millllllllion times better than shop made)

Oh well if he's not mortified, leave the bastard . Oh and I agree at the Pesto indeed!

Sassy - love that recipe! :)

cream? In a carbonara?

Cook bacon. Cook pasta. Add raw egg. Stir. Remove face.

Holy

well they put cream in it in Rome, so I bow to their superior judgement! and it tastes lovely...

only for tourists

I am half italian though

Yes to cream. When I saw the recipe, I thought 'where's the moisture'? It would have been dry spaghetti with just bacon, eggs and black pepper. The egg would cook and become more solid. When I have carbonara sauce in a restaurant, that's what it is - a sauce. That's where the cream comes in.

The eggs and cheese is enough, plus if you use pancetta you get the rendered fat in the mix too, which loosens the eggs. . There is no cream in a proper, original carbonara, its a corruption. If you like it, fair enough, but its not in the authentic recipe.

No cream!

Shudder.

You whisk the egg with grated Parmesan, cool the pasta a bit, leave about two tablespoons of the pasta water in the pot, and mic thoroughly. The cooling stops the egg scrambling and you end up with a lovely silky coating on the pasta.

It needs to be eaten immediately though or it does dry.

Any pasta with a gloopy sauce is designed for a british palate. Italian pastas are more dressed like a salad.

Gloopy carbonara and chicken tikka masala...yuk!