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helenhugs

steph25 wrote: »

Your dish looked really tasty southernscouser well done :beer:

Im making my little girl's fav meal 2day..tuna pasta bake and wanted to ask how other people make theirs?
Ive got the pasta, strong cheese, tuna, and sweetcorn but thought people on here can let me know what else they put in theirs
Also i've never made my own cheese sauce and wanted to know how to do it..ive got cheese n flour but i really have no idea what to do
Any advice and ideas greatfully recieved

my eldest loves that, we add peas aswell anything to squeeze an extra veg in there lol.
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Helen

steph25

Thanks for your advice and the link to the cheese thread! :beer:

I've now made the tuna pasta bake..its under the grill browning..5 more mins then its done. My daughter is sittin with her fork in her hand basically dribblin cause it smells so nice lol

This is how i made the sauce..
cornflour (really cheap thought it was gonna be expensive)
milk
strong cheese (cubed)
half teaspoon colmans mustard (had to use the sauce one couldnt find powder)

Was really easy although i kept thinkin "ohhhh my god its like cement" but it was fine.

Put milk in pan and heat (used about 1 n half pints)
Mixed a bit of milk in a bowl with some cornflour (was really hard but rigourous stirring sorted it) :eek:
Poured that into the hot milk then kept whiskin by hand till it bubbled
Put in lots of cubed strong cheese
Whisked for 5-10 mins by hand and taaaa dah...
My 1st ever home made cheesey sauce :j
I'm gonna go dish it up now
Thanks for the help

Kelinik

Nope sorry SS I'm going to have to ask what it is you show ladies you want to impress....is it your stamp collection? It is isn't it!

Lasagne looks fab btw!

student100

steph25 wrote: »

Im making my little girl's fav meal 2day..tuna pasta bake and wanted to ask how other people make theirs?

OK this is my special... perfected it working on a campsite in France a couple of years back where pretty much all we ate was bolognese, carbonara and this...

Cook pasta

Meanwhile fry 1 chopped onion in a bit of oil (enough oil that there's a little extra in the pan around the onion).

Lift off the heat and add some plain flour and some mixed herbs (herbes de provence were the standard cheap-as-anything mixed herbs in France). Stir like crazy until the flour is mixed with the oil.

Add a splash of milk and put back on the heat. Stir like crazy again, when it starts to bubble add rest of milk. Add a squirt of tomato puree, keep stirring until the sauce thickens.

Add tuna and sweetcorn and stir until heated. Drain the pasta and mix with sauce.


For one portion (if you're a hungry student or campsite worker I use a generous plateful of pasta, probably a couple of tablespoonfuls of oil, one small (Sainsburys Basics size) onion or half a normal onion, about a rounded desertspoonful of flour, a pinch of herbs, about 1/4 pint of milk, and probably about a desertspoonful sized squirt of tomato puree. But I never measure things for this so it's all a bit variable (we didn't have things like scales or measuring spoons on the campsite...).

Again we didn't have an oven but I guess if you wanted to be luxurious you could put it in a dish, top with grated cheese and bake till the cheese is bubbling and golden.

steph25

I think i must do it the lazy way

Cook the pasta
Get big glass dish out
Make cheesey sauce (now homemade )
Tip a bit of the cheesey sauce into the bottom of the dish
Put in some pasta, sweetcorn, tuna and grated cheese then stir it all together
Add another layer of pasta & repeat above^ till everythings gone except a bit of the sauce
Tip rest of sauce on the top and smooth all over with a spoon
Sprinkle with cheese
bung under the grill for 10 mins or when browned n crispy
and thats it lol

My kiddie ate a big plate of it..asked for more then licked the plate after
She said it tasted fab and to save her more for 2moro!

southernscouser

Guess what I'm cooking tonight? Again!

MRSMCAWBER

with or without peppers?:rotfl:

Rikki

southernscouser wrote: »

Guess what I'm cooking tonight? Again!

Will you be cheating this time? :whistle:

Or have you taken all queenies advice onboard?

southernscouser

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

with or without peppers?:rotfl:

I'm just been re-reading your cutting technique. :undecided

I think I might just blend them instead!

southernscouser

Rikki wrote: »

Will you be cheating this time? :whistle:

Or have you taken all queenies advice onboard?

Next question.