To be annoyed with Stanley Tucci?

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Regarding his sandwich.

if looked so delicious on Instagram.

In actuality it was horrible. Prosciutto is like raw bacon. Mozzarella didn’t melt. Olive oil is tasteless grease. I like pesto with spaghetti but not, as it turns out, in a sandwich.

i was so looking forward to it. Went shopping on the way home specially 😕

What food have you had that didn’t live up to expectation?

I think I’d make it again but without the olive oil. Just butter. I’d keep the sourdough. That was nice. I’d swap the prosciutto for some nice streaky bacon and the pesto (which I can still taste!! I think I may have used a little too much) for perhaps some brown sauce. I may keep the Mort-za-RELL-ah because I like that whether it melts properly or not.

I was also disappointed in the courgette pasta. Spent an hour deep frying slices of courgette. left it 24 hours for the dreariest pasta I’ve ever eaten.

I’ve never found Nigella very reliable, although love watching her on TV.

Prosciutto is definitely not like raw bacon. If it was you’re doing it wrong!

That's what I was thinking. Gaydar still broken it seems 😂

Stanley Tucci is fab, and the stuff about his wife is irrelevant. We are all different - I wouldn't particularly want to be in the room when my husband dies, and I certainly don't want anyone hanging around me in my final days. I definitely want to die alone and in peace. So let's not judge someone else's choices, hey?

Completely derails a chat about mozerella with wildly misleading assertion and flaunts off

Honestly I don’t know why I thought that. I just did. I haven’t really seen him in much tbh.

a couple others thought he was too.

As far as I was aware Thom and Rachel had split before she became ill.

A thread in the style of Nora Ephron's Heartburn? Well, why not?

I've already told my wife I don't want her with me when (hopefully if) I die.

Personal.decision I wasn't with either of my parents when they passed and I know they would be happy with this.

Death isn't the pretty thing that you see on tv.

WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE SANDWICHES.

This thread

'Oh god no, look it up, it’s hours of frying courgette in individual slices and then mixing with spaghetti the next day.'

I remember watching him make that, and thinking that it looked like the most enormous faff, and really not even that appetising

😂 at all the MNers who are faint with shock that he's not gay. 'Gaydar' is a bag of shite, and in this case seems to be based entirely on him enjoying fashion, being able to cook and clearly taking care of himself

How about a sandwich with deep fried courgette, buffalo mozarella and pesto?

Love Tucci, always know it’s an enjoyable movie if he’s in the cast and whatever he put in his taste book about his wife resonated with my dad after DM died from cancer, so gonna take the above with a hearty pinch of salt (and add it to my sandwich instead)

Sandwich so bad it warrants starting 2 theads 🙄

Should be grateful she hadn't watched The Lovely Bones, I suppose.

@Elvis1956 I’m afraid it’s definitely a when, not an if.

Without trying to add to the chaos of this thread, I thought ST had died a couple of years ago. And now I can’t figure out who I was thinking of that actually did die.

Totally want a cheese, tomato and pesto sandwich now though. Brie works very well in this combo too. Definitely with good crusty bread/roll, and toasted.

I've tried prosciutto a couple of times but it had an unpleasant and waxy texture like uncooked pepperoni. I don't like pesto anymore and my olive oil never ever tastes nice. So I ask, is it a brand thing? Do I need to dump ASDA for Sainsburys or something? Mozzarella is always glorious and I love it.

Dem lovely bones of his sadly crumbled. Luckily he replaced them with a hard parmigiano reggiano

This is going to be a mumsnet classic…

Are you thinking of Willie Garson, who played Stanford in Sex and the City? Just because I’ve got them confused in the past.

I've not seen his recipe but if you want a simple way of making courgetti just spiralise a courgette then bung it in the microwave for a minute or two. Just long enough to heat it up but not so long is goes mushy. In total it takes about 5 minutes 😎
Edit: I don't even add oil to mine

His courgette spaghetti had nothing to do with using a spiraliser to make a courgette into 'spaghetti'. It was literally a spaghetti recipe with TONS of sliced courgettes fried in oil 😬