what is the point of passata?

[AitchTwoOh]

i bought some ages ago but i go to make a tomatoey thing and always opt for a tin of toms as i like the bits... so will i ever use it?

thick

ah, right, norkmaiden, i like your generic red sauce thinking. and apart from the milk i'd say that's my spag bol recipe. (although i use whichever booze is to hand, but pref white).

or even sherry. and franca just because you're an actual live italian doesn't mean i'm going to take your passata fetich seriously... what is it actually for?!

to make sauce/sugo. It used to be a way of preserving tomatoes for the winter. so my grandmother used to boil tomatoes for hrs then peel them off, blend them and put them in bottles. But they needed to be sterilized (the bottles) to avoiud botulism, hence a various procedures (none of them scientifically grounded). Anyway, becuase passata is concentrated it takes 20 mins to make pasta sauce rather than 2 hrs with tinned tomatoes. but it goes without sayig that if you like tinned tomatoes then you don't need passata (though I second mixing tt with passata) oh god I'm rambling

hmmm, so it's a convenience version of tinned toms? that i can see...

I use it in spag bol etc rather than a tin of toms because I don't like the bits! Do you want to bung it my way?

It's great! Snip, squeeze, heat and serve.

My kids love it. It's one of the five a day.

It is!

It is one of 5 a day, it is actually considered a superfood, or at least it was last year .
yes, it is some sort of fast food. simmer some garlic and olive oil, add passata, add some tinned tuna and parsley and you have a great pasta sauce in less than 30 mins (god I sound pathetic, don't I?)

as a soup, colditz? (how's yer mouth, btw? )

okay, gotcha. i may use it but i'd be more likely to do something stir-fryish if i only had 30 mins...

I am now officially hungry.

well, colditz has scoffed all the chilli chicken wings...

No, stuff yer peppers, honestly it's great. Or, er, any other stuffable edible things ?? With meat if that's your bent

am not understanding that post on a number of levels!

Not so much scoffed, as 'rammed them down her throat bypassing as much of her mouth as possible'

I use it as a basic pasta sauce. So ... ham, onion sizzled in pan, add garlic and herb passata and heat through, pour over noodles or quick cook pasta. Dinner in 15 minutes . Quicker than oven chips.

they bottled babies??! was that your welsh side?

i use it a lot
not so bitter as puree
i use tins and passata at once
ooooh like that spag bol recipe!

and will you be adding the milk, hartington?

i am going to buy some!! where in the supermarket would i find it. with the dolmio pasta sauces etc?

ooobviously...

napy it's 29p for a small carton in lidl. that's where i bought mine, at any rate. or you can pay fortunes for big glass jars in the supermarkets. or just buy the tins and let it stew for ages, yum.

It's about 30p a carton, near the pasta sauces.

I can only just restrain myself from drinking it

tesco and morrison's both sell 30p cartons.