quick help! started to cook bolognaise but no chopped tomatoes!!!!

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Says it all really, am trying to get tea almost cooked so we can a decent tea for once on a monday night(rushing around kinda afternoon). Thought i had all the ingredients but am missing chopped tomatoes. What can i use to make it tase tomatoey still? DP and even DS1 looking forward to it.

Got no tomato soup and no pasta sauce. is there any hope?

I have onions, garlic and minced meat all cooked waiting for rest of ingrediants :(

ketchup ???

I am NO Delia Smith

ketchup added in the last 5 mins of cooking

I don't use chopped tomatoes in bolgnese

Do you have passata or fresh tomatoes or tomato puree I take it not

Any passata? Any fresh tomatoes you can chop? No nearby shops? Tomato puree?

Do you have:

• fresh tomatoes?
• tomato puree?

If you've got a can of baked beans, you could turn it into shepherds pie.

Or make the mice, onion and garlic into meatballs, and then make an olive oil type dressing for the pasta. And sprinkle with grated cheese.

wow these are quick replies! thank yoU!

sparkler i thought of ketchup but i use that at the end anyway lol!

Got tomato puree but no fresh tomatoes, i don't even know what passata is!

Can['t get to shop as both my boys r asleep and i will have to wake them to go out in a short while and we won't b back then til tea time

ARGH!

So shall i just squeeze a load of tomato puree in then?

I am NOT a cook at all!

hmmm hula - mice meatballs - sounds scrummy........

cook the tomato puree first with the onions garlic and beef for a few mins

a big dessertspoonful

and then use stock and a tiny bit of milk (takes away bitterness of tom puree)

add a tsp of flour and stir in, cook for a few minutes then add tomato puree and stock

ooh meatballs, theres an idea

And cream or creme fraiche too?

Add that to the tomato puree and it'll make a creamy sauce and make the puree go longer and the flavour not too intense.

lol @ mice; did mean MINCE!!!

can't add cream or milk, makes DP ill

leave it out then

do it my way or cds way

both good

Tomato puree and stock will work fine - too late to make meatballs I would think

ok, am going to experiment [worried face icon]

Thank you for hasty replies x

Why too late for meatballs?

I often do mine last thing. Not something I plan ahead with TBH.

hula, mom had already cooked the meat, onions and garlic

HOw about just adding any veg you have lying around and putting mash on top for shepherd's pie?

Or adding breadcrumbs and making into burgers and serving with chips?

Ah, missed that bit.

Tahnks for help earlier. :)

Couldn't turn it into shepherds pie, got no potatoes (can u tell i haven't shopped yet loL!)

Turned out fine, just missed out chopped tomatoes and put a bit of ketchuip in at the end. Used a bit extra tomatoe puree too.

Thank you for suggestions, it tasted scrummy :)

DP now thinks i am Delia but had to come clean and tell him it was mumsnet lol!