I really am going to shame myself here, and I considered name changing, but I need help to up my ante.

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

and

I luff Homepride Parsta Bake Sauces.

Please, please tell me how to make somehing similar from real ingredients, so my gulit will be eased.

I'm thinking tomatoes and marscapone maybe as a strating position.

Help me out.

And tuna pasta bake is just so wrong

I make virtually everything from scratch, pizza n all that jazz. But

[ssshhhh]

I buy Sainsbo's 3 cheese sauce to make mac cheese. Its one of those 10 minutes to get something in them between swimming and cricket dinners. So shoot me.

Tuna melt is wrong on every score. Who puts cheese with tuna? It's the road to madness.
But I'm softening on my previous stern Tuna Pasta Bake stance now I've remembered the Campbell's mushroom soup technique.

Bellavita - my son thinks it's the best meal in the world.
GAVEL as they say round these parts

I'm quite curious about the crisps.....

I never mentioned the Tword.

[shick]

(oh and yes, SNF, I used to like you)

Nooooooooo Tuppeny he needs educating!

Crisps? On pasta?

My Nonna would go mad little Italian on your asses if she heard about that

You bash the crisps up and mix them with the cheese to go on top. I don't use them when I make it these days, just cheese is nicer.

My Nonna would have had a few choice words to say about it too Val had she still been alive today!

Bella, they are probably both up there, tutting and 'manneggia-ing' away together at this thread

So, going back to OP, shall we educate Chaos and teach her a nice recipe?

I think a bay leaf, onion, clove etc might be a bit much for Chaos

d'you like me now?

Is it made from first princples SNF?

And, bellav, SIOB at you myfriend!!

I have smoked paprika in my cupboard.

First principles? eh?

And what is SIOB?

I think everyone has smoked paprika in their cupboard probably dating back from about 2005.

Paprika, in pasta sauce....

No cloves either Bella

Val, I am thinking along the lines of a béchamel sauce, not that I have used a clove in it, but I could have sworn you put one in the onion whilst it was in the milk?

3 chopped tomatoes, 2 tins of chopped tomatoes, basil, tablespoon full of salt, anything else you want to stick in, and whoosh in a blender.

Heat chopped garlic in olive oil till its brown. Remove garlic. Add whooshed up mix and cook for 20 mins.

(or deCecco's own brand sauce is pretty good)

Ah, yes, agreed Bella.

Annunziata, a tablespoon of salt? That's a LOT

See, I have to cheat with the white sauce.
I have only once, by some freak of luck, managed to make an edible white sauce.

Surely a teaspoon of salt?

Do you think? I love salty things though.