The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
#751
#752
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Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
Philly pasta was a staple for my kids growing up. And an Italian taught me how to make it! You can use Mascapone Twinkle. It's the same as using cream. I've also used gorgonzola and mascapone to stuff chicken breasts.
#754
Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
I suppose that's just like using the baby pasta and mixing "formaggino" into it. Felt a bit funny the first time I mixed something resembling a cheese triangle into a bowl of baby pasta.
Course you can use cream with pasta. What about all the creamy mushroom sauces and carbonara etc.
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Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
Ah sorry, misunderstand.
When you say only "cream" I think about the cream cakes.
If you say to an Italian: "ho mangiato un bel piatto di pasta con la crema." He think that you eat past with sweet cream
Anyway carbonara is not a cream. Carbonara is a sauce.
When you say only "cream" I think about the cream cakes.
If you say to an Italian: "ho mangiato un bel piatto di pasta con la crema." He think that you eat past with sweet cream
Anyway carbonara is not a cream. Carbonara is a sauce.
#756
Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
Plenty of tortellini dishes served up with 'panna da cucina' and lots of risotto dishes are finished off with a dollop of cream too.
Carbonara is a creamy type of sauce as opposed to a tomato based sauce.
#757
Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
Thanks all. I'll have a try and let you know.... I will fry some mushrooms with maybe some onion, garlic and thyme, add a splosh of brandy, then a few blobs of marscapone and seasoning. Not sure whether the parmesan will go in it yet or just on the top. Should be a cheap meat free dinner using leftovers!
#758
Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
Thanks all. I'll have a try and let you know.... I will fry some mushrooms with maybe some onion, garlic and thyme, add a splosh of brandy, then a few blobs of marscapone and seasoning. Not sure whether the parmesan will go in it yet or just on the top. Should be a cheap meat free dinner using leftovers!
#759
Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
Yep. Will do that again..... we ate every bit with no parmesan needed. It was Marsala not brandy cos I didn't have my glasses on when I went to the drinks cupboard!!! Thank you!
#760
Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
(tortellini with cream and mushrooms) I ate it and fell in love There are many pasta dishes made with 'panna'
#761
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Hehe. So I'm not the only one who really needs her specs when cooking. Meant to say, you can freeze marscarpone.
#762
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Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
hi,we were in calabria at easter crap weather not many restaurants open that time of year.always loved prawn or lobster linquine creamy.saw a whole range of panna in supermarket up road,not too sure what it was gave it a go with frozen seafood and spag ,brilliant never seen it anywhere else before.changing subject,saw 1kg tub of don horio baked beans complete with italian flag on front in 99p store in my town in essex says produce of italy on label,whats all that about,cheers brian.
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Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
Does anyone know if I can use marscapone in a savoury dish? I've got a tub in the fridge with some wrinkly mushrooms and am thinking of putting them together with some pasta and parmesan for dinner..... I've only ever used marscapone in sweet dishes before but never got round to making it into anything
Sorry, I have just read this and your mascarpone is probably out of date by now !!! However I would recommend making pasta (farfalle) with mascarpone and smoked salmon. Have you ever tried it ?? It is very tasty and very quick and easy to make. (There are no mushrooms in it though. You can use them for your second course !!!!!!!!!!)
#765
Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
One of my regular quick and easy dinners used to be smoked salmon and prawns stirred into creme fraiche and mixed through pasta.... have tried it with the panna here but it's a bit too rich and creamy (and probably unhealthy!!) for us to have often.
Eurospin is just opening a branch here so will look in there when it's open - sounds interesting as sour cream is something else we miss. Did try mixing lemon juice into panna but it wasn't the same..... Is Eurospin like Lidl's in that it has special weeks for different types of food? Or do they always sell the same range??
Eurospin is just opening a branch here so will look in there when it's open - sounds interesting as sour cream is something else we miss. Did try mixing lemon juice into panna but it wasn't the same..... Is Eurospin like Lidl's in that it has special weeks for different types of food? Or do they always sell the same range??