Pasta + white sauce + cheese + ??

[NotQuiteCockney]

I made pasta with white sauce and cheese for the kids the other week, and it was a huge hit. So I'm trying to work out what veg I can put in it to make it a bit more interesting. Mushrooms? Onions? Or what?

And do I cook the veg and then make the white sauce in the same pot? Or what?

bung in peas or swweet corn?
or grated crrot
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also you can bung bacon un and grill it all together as a gratin

Cook your veg - Mushrooms, Ham, onions. Possibly some carrots or brocoli?

Then make your sauce up and add the veg to that and the pasta.

I always saute the veg a little bit first, I find they taste nicer that way.

Mine will eat any combination of onions, leeks, courgettes, mushrooms, peppers (tiny bits as they can be strong). They also love it when I add sliced ham.

Oh, I don't need to hide veg, my boys like veg fine, I just found the sauce a bit boring as it was.

DS1 was so pleased with it though, he said "I haven't had this before - it's lovely!".

broccoli or cauliflower- make a cauliflower cheese and put past thro it.

Oh, but I have to use three pots then? Pasta, sauce, and veg? There will be complaints from the cleaning up staff (aka DH).

I used to live with a vegetarian who was forever making white sauce with veg, but I was sure he didn't go mad with the pots ...

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I throw in any veg ive got, mushroom, onion, peppers, frozen sweetcorn, cherry tomatoes on top plus chicken, bacon or tuna. I mix the veg in at the end, sometimes grill/put in oven with a bit of cheese on top

its the same thing as macaroni cheese which I just put bacon and toms and sometimes breadcrumbs on top then bing in the oven

Broccoli sounds good. Well, all these sound good.

I have a vegetarian coming for tea on Thursday, and planning to do fattoush (our family salad craze of the moment), and pasta + cheese, but it's got to have flavour ...

bing?! oh and leeks and cauliflower are nice in it too. I microwave my veg in a bowl cos im lazy

make a lasagne with chargrilled veg( butternut sqash, aubergine, courgettes carrots and red onion) layer with cheese sauce

sorrel, I keep meaning to make lasagne, but not getting around to it. Isn't that even more dirty dishes, though?

spose so, but at least it can be done in advance. i wou make 3 or 4 at once and stick them in the freezer.

I have to get back in the habit of freezing things. I just always freeze stuff and then throw them out months later.

Tuna. Peas. Spinach. Ham. Peppers. The world is your lobster. To save on the washing up, make a vat of the stuff and freeze it. Also, have found that having a pot of plain tomato and mascapone sauce in the fridge is very handy as you can add all sorts of things to that. Very useful emergency rations. Happy inventing!