pasta sauce recipes

valk_scot

No more than a week I would say. Better to freeze it though.

grrmich

I leave stuff for ages all the time in my fridge. I use the sniff and lick rule. If it smells OK, I'll dip a finger in and give it a lick to test the tast. Prob a good idea to have strong tasting drink nearby in case it doesn't taste so good! (as can often be the case)

System

Thanks for the tip re freezing it! I always end up throwing half a jar of sauce away and it's such a waste - will definately freeze in future.. Great idea, have no idea why I didn't think of this before :cool:

tandraig

Summer? why dont you use the whole jar? buy more mince or whatever? then you can freeze the extra and it will keep for at least three months? or if you just use the sauce - I should think its freezable too. just freeze the excess straight away.

System

Hey tandraig, it's the Lloyd Grosman Tomato and Chili sauce that I put onto pasta, the whole jar is too much..

helena4_2

Hello quick question I want to make some chocolate icing with double cream the Best Before date is 22nd Feb would it be ok to use today?

Not tried making icing this way before as you have to heat the cream first..wish me luck!;)

Clowance

taste and smell it to see if ok. But I would eat the cake pretty sharpish too! (what a hardship)

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msb5262

Hello OP,
I'm guessing your recipe involves combining chocolate and double cream - the method I use for this is 1oz plain chocolate to each 1 fl oz cream, and although the instructions tell you to do it in a bain-marie, I usually put them in a heavy-based saucepan and do it directly over a very low heat.
a) if the cream smells ok it will be fine
and b) don't worry, the method is dead easy and produces a delicious icing.
You can either use the ganache as it is or allow it to cool and whip it like ordinary double cream to make a paler icing with a whipped texture.
If I have very posh dark chocolate, I sometimes add a little sugar so the children aren't recoiling too much. Alternatively if the icing is for grown-ups only, I use Delia's version of this which uses sour cream - sophisticated and quite bitter, but divine!
HTH
MsB

helena4_2

Clowance wrote: »

taste and smell it to see if ok. But I would eat the cake pretty sharpish too! (what a hardship)

Yes It will be hard dont know How I will cope eating all that cake:p