Pasta and barbeque sauce? Do they mix?

[Peegee]

They sure do! At least if you add some other things.

My typical pasta sauce is composed of the following:

Pasta sauce (ragu, etc)
Ketchup
Sugar

Heat it up and mix it. Very nice.

However tonight I realised that I had ran out of pasta sauce. Whatever was I to do? I briefly considered playing with ketchup and spices, but I don't have anything except oregano....hmm. So I looked through my dry food storage area -- sugar, salt, ketchup, sweet & sour sauce...I briefly considered it, but the consistency was bad. Then I saw it.

BBQ sauce. Amazing. I grabbed the two bottles, sprayed ketchup all over a sauce pan, and heated it up. I then added about 1/3 more bbq sauce, sprinkled it with sugar, and mixed it up. Amazing!

I now have a container of pasta sauce for later.

So the topic here is: when and if you cook, do you experiment with things, or do you just cook the way you were taught/experienced at? Usually I cook the same thing every night -- it's easy, simple, and I don't have to think more than 'I'm hungry'.

[Nod]

Yeah, i definitely experiment. I have found that when cooking bolognaise, a great thing to add is a teaspoon of marmite/bovril. it may sound a little strange, but the mresult is brilliant! :goomba:

[boris no no]

i always put chinnamonamonamonamon into my pasta!

plus BBQ sauce on cheese
*drools*
and also, in a weider view, chocolate covered gerkins are pretty tasty too!
p.s i'm not joking!

[udsuna]

I like boris' theory. I'm also a fan of putting cinnamon in chile. It adds a really subtle and surprisingly good taste. But, BBQ sauce is good for anything that isn't supposed to be overly sweet.

[Doc Sark]

NOOOOOO!!!! Not another one. My best mate made me spaghetti bolognaise once mixing BBQ sauce in with the pasta sauce! I like BBQ sauce but it was disgusting!!!! I like my pasta sauce non-BBQ sauce based!!!

I do like to experiment however, my favourite hangover snack is a potato waffle, with two slices of cheese on the top, wrapped in ham. It's a culinary vision I tell you!

[gokufusionss1]

you can't beat a fried egg, sausage and bacon sandwhich with BBQ sauce.

[Resha]

Everything I cook is an experiment. I cannot cook. Bane of my mother's life, I am.

[ffrinoa8]

do you experiment with things

yeah i experoment alot with hey try milkduds with popcorn!! it's a sweet movie snack!

[Meat Puppet]

duh

[Strider]

Chili Mac. Always Chili Mac.

[amratis]

As a uni student I experiment all the time with cooking....with normally horrific results

[Doomgaze]

*shudders*

You have offended my people. That's not pasta sauce. That's... why don't you just eat spaghettios or something, if you're looking for cheap, tasteless crap.

[Fuzakeru]

Barbeque sauce goes with ANYTHING.

[Peegee]

*shudders*

You have offended my people. That's not pasta sauce. That's... why don't you just eat spaghettios or something, if you're looking for cheap, tasteless crap.

You forgot I sweeten with sugar, noob.

[Casey]

Dude, instead of sugar. You should try adding some....

BAM!



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