to be repulsed by the words 'pasta bake'

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and i actually retch at teh thought of tuna pasta bake.

My mum loves tinned macaroni cheese. It looks like baby food and when you heat it up it smells like baby sick - bleuuurgh.
She makes a lovely homemade maccaroni so it's not like she can't cook. She actually enjoys the tinned stuff.

I have just started to make a basic pasta bake, with chicken, tomato sauce and was going to layer it with mozzarella. But......it is 4 days past its date. dh says it's fine. I'm nearly 32weeks pregnant so will not be eating it. (I'm doing separate dishes as dh's will be cooked later when he's home from football)

Would you eat it? Cheese lives for ages...but mozzarella is diff...?

Does it smell a bit off? Mozzarella can also start going a weird pinky colour, so maybe check if it's doing that.

Not sniffed yet, will do that now, hang on.

You can really tell when mozzarella goes off IMO if it is the soft stuff. It will taste bitter and the milk will smell grim.

Ok, not pink, doesn't smell. It looks fine

I shouldn't eat it though should I??

Of course you can eat it. Why shouldn't you?

Am am almost 32 weeks pregnant. Just want to be safe!!

I am fairly sure I have never used real mozzarella ... despite my posh passata and olive oil.

What's the alternative to 'real' mozzarella then??

I'm sure I have bought it with good intentions, then not used it ... dd1 would refuse it. If not on pizza. Cheddar is the only acceptable cheese in our house.

do you know what i love? tinned spaghetti. maaaaaaaan. on buttery toast. that stuff is great.

apart from that, the loyd grossman puttanesca is okay i think, so long as you thin it with more toms. but generally am a batch cook and have my roman recipe sauce always on the go.

PMSL at 'white sauce mix'. Is that a sachet of flour, then?

I once saw omelette mix in cartons in Sainsburys, which listed in the ingredients (yes, you guessed it) eggs. Just eggs. Without shells, obviously.

I'm not keen on most bottled sauces but I do quite like the Lloyd Grossman ones, particularly the roasted garlic one.

And I LOVE pasta bakes of all kinds. Tuna pasta bake is lovely, IMO, esp with loads of black olives and sweet peppers.

Also, tinned spaghetti is delicious. I especially love tinned spaghetti hot in a bowl with huge quantities of grated cheddar on top.

ah how lovely and comforting to come across parallel universe MN again...

where people only own Egyptian cotton white bedclothes, wouldn't dream of using anything other than Farrow & Ball paints and are repulsed at the thought of pasta bake.

Love it.

i'm repulsed at the thought of tuna pasta bake. i think making this into a snob thing is a bit bonkers, tbh. it was just a joke.

aitch i suspect my name change inflamed matters somewhat.

What or who are Farrow and Ball? I'd never heard of them until I joined here.
They sound like solicitors.

Don't they do lovely paint in lovely colours, sort of pre faded? (Or else boxes of veg)

yes, eleanora, prolly.

td they make paint. i got our entire place done in their colours (oh so tasteful, lots of grey) but not their paint iykwim? you just get it mixed in a vinyl if you've got kids.

you have to buy teh actually real paint to get the 'depth' of colour, snort

They make paint? I was hoping they made something terribly exciting that I'd actually want to purchase.

lol

that's not exactly "honest" is it aitch

they also make wallpaper!

So what is the veg box company? (I am in Ireland...I get my veg from a little place down the road...it is a supermarket)