pasta bake

[lucysmam]

home made or shop bought sauce to go with the pasta?

Just curious as oh says he prefers shop bought to ones I've made in the past

Home made def. Look at the label on shop-bought and the biggest ingred is usually sugar.

Home made ones suffr from not being cooked enough usually. The tomatoes need really long slow cooking to make them sweet and break down sufficiently. Add a bit of stock/wine/water/apple jiuce to help it along.

And you can add hidden veg!

See I don't often buy shop-made jars of anything these days as I'm learning quite a lot in the kitchen & enjoying it. Would it be wrong of me do you think to deny oh this one thing he prefers? Or maybe a compromise of some sort or other

I know what you mean lucysmam!

If I make a curry, ds won't eat it and this is the only time I give him something different. He has the chicken with a bought tomato sauce in a jar from Tesco. He says "sorry mum, but it's nicer than your tomato sauce!" God love him.

However, I always do my own pasta sauce otherwise!

I made one that sounded foul LOL.

It was just sausages, bacon, tin of tomatoes, tomato puree, tiny bit of herbs and cheese was lovely although it looked and smelled foul too.

Mamadiva - I do a sausage casserole that is almost exactly your recipe! It's not foul! Wouldn't put cheese in, (maybe on) but otherwise it's the same. I'd cook the sausages and bacon separately and cook down the tomatoes with onion first tho.

maybe just compromise on this one thing then. I do make my own for everything else these days so I guess one jar isn't too bad

we never had decent cookery lessons at school! They were always projects about different countries foods and then cook one thing at the end. If it's tasty then yes please post . . . am going to persevere & crack this nut since I managed to introduce veggie nights no problem