Spag Bol

[ethandron]

When you're serving spag bol...using the world famous ragu of course...how do you serve it? Im talking about serving it to guests rather than just family.
Do you put an amount of spag on each plate then an amount of bol?
Do you put the whole load of spag in a big bowl, add bol and mix the two together, put it on the table so everyone can help themselves?
Put the spag and and bol separately on the table? Spag can glue itself together very easily.
Any other suggestions for serving no it up?
This is a halfway serious question so I'd appreciate that type of answer.
Thanks.

[kawanabe]

With lashings of Chianti....it'll all go famously!

[Togo]

Knock up a nice green salad. Little gem, cubed and peeled cucumber, green pepper finely sliced, spring onion chopped, celery diced optional, but you have to use a good granny smith apple cubed again, (not peeled) and if you have them a few green grapes. Toss with a low fat Greek or natural unsweetened yoghurt. Works great with a Lasagne too. I would dish it up in individual warmed shallow bowls with the sauce ladled on top as you would expect in an Italian Restaurant, Parmesan optional, Garlic Bread served just before the main meal.

[Togo]

Pud? Have Panna Cotta and Raspberries.

[ethandron]

Pud is lemon tart with raspberries and creme fraisch.
Hmm Togo, you may just have changed my mind ;)

[Jackdaw33]

Pasta is pasta is pasta, so I've never understood the obsession with the long, slurpy, stringy bits when it comes in so many other more easily manageable shapes and sizes.

[Arksided]

I always add butter when cooking pasta. A good Idea though to serve your guests with a bowl and let them know there's plenty more where that came from.

[ethandron]

The spag I use is co op fancy stuff, square and rough, a lovely texture. I always chop spag up first anyway, can't be bothered with slurping it up and dripping sauce everywhere.

[237SJ]

I haven't cooked spag bol en masse since my friend and I had a pasta disaster when we were cooking it for the local cricket club's after match meal. We put too much pasta into the pot and it stuck together. God knows how we managed to rescue it (just) Thank God for copious amounts of wine to soften the blow

[ummmm]

Whereas I prefer spaghetti to pasta shapes. I think because it's more interactive.

[yogi-bear]

Evening ethandron,

We serve it up in the kitchen/diner, by putting spaghetti on plate first, and bolognese sauce on top..not covering all the spaghetti..If guests want more sauce or pasta, give them more, as cook enough and keep back in case.
Put garlic bread ( Peter Kay will not be impressed ) grated cheddar and parmesan cheese on dining table. We have a seperate dining room, in addition to the kitchen diner, which can accommodate up to 16 people....We use both to entertain, depending on how many friends/family we have.

We sometimes put in some meatballs in the sauce, and ask who would like them with or without.

Do the same for Chilli con carne dishes, and the same for types of Curry's too, with either rice or chips, or both, unless we're, in Spring or Summer, eating out in the garden, where we put everything in dishes, and people just help themselves, and serve their own.

[murraymints]

yogi I am coming to stay !!

[Arksided]

237SJ... love it :-)

[yogi-bear]

As long as you bring your outfit, Minty.... :-)

How are you, sweetie? Haven't seen you posting last week....Hope all well with you xx

[237SJ]

In Italy, pasta is the starter before the main meal. I tend to just stick with that because it is so lovely. I remember eating an asparagus pasta on a horse trail riding trip in Tuscany and I can still remember it, even though it was more than 10 years ago. It was made by the Mother in Law of the people who owned the stables. You can't get better than that and it is such simple food as well.

[Jackdaw33]

'Interactive' is not the first word which comes to my mind when describing spaghetti, or any other food item for that matter.

[murraymints]

been poorly with bad chest but very much better now Yogi xx

[Islay]

Its not spaghetti bolognaise if you don't used spaghetti!

[Arksided]

Without hijacking the thread, that is good to know Murraymints :-) soon you'll be dancin' again I'm sure. Xx

[yogi-bear]

Sorry to hear, Minty, but glad your feeling better now...x.. there is certainly loads of bugs, colds etc out there at the moment, and have lots of family and friends ill at the moment with various symptoms.

(If you need some vapour rub mixed in there, Minty.... I'm your man :-) xx )

[Tilly2]

Yogi, that'll make your eyes water.