Evening all,
I think I have posted about the yummy seafood tagliatelle ready meal from Waitrose. It is a portion size for 1, but I confess if I had 2 in the fridge I would probably eat them both in one sitting!
It is described as "free range egg pasta in a white wine sauce with king prawns, crabmeat and petits pois". (Although I must say they are the petitest pois I have ever seen) You can really taste the crabmeat.
I would like to have a go at making this myself for Mr P and I, but of course with minimum effort 
I have tagliatelle, I have prawns in the freezer and I bought a tin of crabmeat when I went shopping.
The question is, what about the sauce? I had toyed with the idea of using a white sauce packet mix 
and replacing some of the milk with white wine.
Would it work, would it be edible, should I sort of boil the wine off a bit before adding it etc etc.
Over to the wise women of GN!
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Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of effort Phoenix
Make the sauce yourself (1oz butter, 1oz flour and half a pint of milk, seasoned with salt pepper and a bit of nutmeg or dry mustard, and substitute some of the milk with however much white wine you feel like using).
Count yourself lucky - I have never seen seafood tagliatelle in my local Waitrose.
Perhaps they think it's too sophisticated for us Northerners.
Phoenix if it doesnt work out just drink all the wine. 
I was actually planning on drinking the rest of the bottle, as these modern wines go off so quickly.................
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