Carbonara is bacon, egg, Parmesan….that’s it.

[Notsympatheticenough]

I’ll accept garlic.. WTF is this?

Carbonara recipr

In the 70s everyone's mum made a casserole with a tin of Campbells.

Can anyone link the Holly Willoughby and Gino Di Campo programme about carbonara?

I stopped making proper carbonara during a salmonella scare.

A favourite is cheesy/bacon pasta.

Fry pancetta, add garlic, add one of those little bottles of white wine. Bubble. Add a big handful of two of grated mousetrap, and a big handful of chopped coriander or parsley. Stir in two big spoonfuls of Creme fraiche. Drain and tip in the cooked pasta. Bung in a big warm bowl.

Serve with garlic bread and a crisp, well dressed salad. It is not csrbonara but it includes bacon and pasta.

Stanley Tucci was watching a chef make it and the chef insisted on guanciale. There is a difference. Had pancetta on a pizza tonight but guanciale is different but equaally delicious

Grated mousetrap?

Cheesy bacon pasta bake is DS2s favourite meal. It's pretty much the only meal I make from a jar. I add fried bacon and onion, sometimes sweetcorn and a layer of smokey bacon crisps under the cheese.

@CurlyhairedAssassin NOOOO I meant beat eggs 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️. With a fork. I shouldn't multitask.

And a little bit of parsley

Soup carbonara is an abomination (an old flatmate used to do it)

BUT

Tomato soup cupcakes... no words

www.campbells.com/recipes/tomato-soup-spice-cake/

I concur!

@WeDontNeedToTalkAboutJamie "Mousetrap" is cheese that has been in the fridge a bit or cheap cheddar.

If it's dry without cream it's because you have overcooked the egg

I made it today for the first time which is a bit of a coincidence I come on Mumsnet and see this thread lol the recipe came from a book I have it called for eggs, cream, obvs pasta, parmasen, pancetta and salt and pepper that was all

Traditionally it’s guanciale and pecorino but I can totally accept pancetta and parmesan. Condensed chicken soup on the other hand….

Thanks. I've never heard that! Everyday is a school day!

I use mushrooms and onions🤷‍♀️

@Letthesunshineonin

Please can you share it?

Tbh carbonara has changed over the years. We seem to have become pasta purists recently, whereas in the dim and distant past I presume the ingredients were whatever cheese and cured meat was available that day.

Tesco do a really nice smoked pancetta that I put in mine.

Came on to say you forgot pepper! I put lashings on it.

OMG. I'll admit i've been known to sneak in some sweetcorn to get the DC to eat vegetables but even then I make the sauce correctly. That version sounds grim.

It reminds me of the year I decided to have a go at some thanksgiving recipes; green beans in mushroom soup and sweet potato with marshmallows. Abominable.

And parsley and black pepper!

Couldn't bring myself to open the link but I get the gist

That cheapo cubed pancetta is horrible

Ooh I like the sound of this dish

I used to always make a white sauce with a whole 400ml of cream and equal milk, then add lots of grated Parmesan, and in separate pan garlic and bacon. Then mix together, take off heat and stir in 3 egg yolks. Was utterly divine done this way.

Nowadays (kids/time) I just cook the spaghetti, microwave a hunk of butter with finely chopped garlic in a small bowl, chuck that on the cooked spag with a tub of cream and crack 3 egg yolks straight in, and grate a load of Parmesan in and mix over heat. Add a shake of parsley to make it look healthier and lots of black pepper and some salt. And snip a load of cooked ham in

Gross I also hate when companies (usually ready meals but sometimes posh restaurants) put cream in it. It makes it taste really bland.

It shouldn't taste bland as long as it's seasoned well and given time to absorb flavours.

my dear italian (sicily) friend made it with a teaspoon of cream per portion.

for one person:
1 egg
1 tsp cream
1 tsp parmesan
a pinch of oregano
1 british rasher size of finely chopped pancetta
60g spaghetti

I knew it was going to be soup!
Americans seem to put a can of soup in everything