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Asda cheese and bacon pasta bake
lem ramsay
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I bought a jar of this sauce, used it in some mac and cheese and it is disgusting.
The cheese... where is it?? It does have the smoky taste of bacon but is also very acidic, as though it had lemon juice or vinegar in it and I looked at the ingredients and can't see any of these in the list; it does have acidity regulator though
, I wonder what it would taste like without it 
I know it's easy to make a cheese sauce from scratch and I did it yesterday for my first batch of mac and cheese but today I wasn't feeling well and so I thought I would cheat (bad idea, never again).
I still have quite a bit of this sour mac and cheese in the fridge which has been baked already, can I do anything to make it taste more palatable? I am guessing I can't.
You have any experience of these ready made sauces?
I haver learned my lesson anyway, so next time I will make my own again.
The cheese... where is it?? It does have the smoky taste of bacon but is also very acidic, as though it had lemon juice or vinegar in it and I looked at the ingredients and can't see any of these in the list; it does have acidity regulator though
, I wonder what it would taste like without it I know it's easy to make a cheese sauce from scratch and I did it yesterday for my first batch of mac and cheese but today I wasn't feeling well and so I thought I would cheat (bad idea, never again).
I still have quite a bit of this sour mac and cheese in the fridge which has been baked already, can I do anything to make it taste more palatable? I am guessing I can't.
You have any experience of these ready made sauces?
I haver learned my lesson anyway, so next time I will make my own again.
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I recommend you feed the lot to the birds (if they will eat it that is!)
I can see bits of "bacon" but can't taste the cheese at all and yet it mentions 15% of cheddar in the ingredients I think (I am not sure about the percentage).
I meant I can't see anything like vinegar or lemon juice in the ingredients but the sauce tastes like it has one or the other in it.
It is vile, wouldn't recommend it.
I know, have always done it myself, just today I was a bit unwell and feeling lazy so I gave the jarred sauce a try. I thought it would save me washing up as well.
Yes, I top the mac and cheese with breadcrumbs as they make it go very crispy.
Yeah, its a great dish to have when the weathers bad very comforting and filling
There's nothing wrong with dried pasta in itself. I remember when supermarkets here started pushing "fresh pasta" (at a premium price, of course) a few years back, it was pointed out by a food expert that dried pasta is just as good for most everyday uses and the Italians themselves were quite happy to use it.
In fact, according to the Wikipedia article, it's been around for a long, *long* time (like 1500 years or so!)
That said, the cheap sauce *is* probably rubbish.
I am Italian and always had dried pasta at home and there is nothing wrong with it. The sauce was horrible and ruined evrything.
I am Italian and always had dried pasta at home and there is nothing wrong with it; I wouldn't buy their sauces again or ay ready made ones anyway
Yeah, I bought something like that once. I used a pot(!) in the oven whose plastic-like handle obviously wasn't meant for the heat and slightly melted. I put the odd flavour down to fumes from the decomposing plastic.
Then I tried another jar of the sauce some time later and realised that, no, it was the sauce itself that tasted bloody weird.