Mushroom Sauce for Pasta

Cheat! Use condensed cream of mushroom soup as a base, add wine, creme fraiche, whatever until it is the right consistency, black pepper and away you go!

PS Obviously add some mushrooms as well!

Campbell's is the best mix some wine with the water used to dilute the concentrated sauce and add extra cooked fresh mushrooms

I also use condensed mushroom soup. Incidentally it makes a good cook in sauce for chicken too.

A selection of different mushrooms too, to add variety could make it more interesting.

and garlic - a must for us but only if your guests all like garlic of course!

I make a turkey and ham (gammon) pie over the Christmas period using condensed mushroom soup (undiluted) to sort of coat/ bind the left over cooked meat before encasing in pastry, and jolly good it is too!

sautee some mixed mushrooms ,finely chopped shallots in butter ,add garlic,then a splash of white wine cook out add some vegetable stock and finish with cream and an egg yolk to thicken it

use the same sauce wth some crispy bacon as a topping for non veggies

I go to Waitrose and buy a tub of creamy mushroom sauce with porcini mushrooms. Just heat and pour over cooked pasta. Much easier than messing about making a sauce from scratch.

Well, thank you so much! I would definitely go with the tin of mushroom soup option if it wasn't for the fact that we cook and eat in the kitchen so I would get sussed by my foody son-in-law - no hiding from him! Paddyann, your sauce sounds lovely and I bet you are a good cook but the winner is............hilda! If only I can get the sauce out of the pack and into the pan without DSiL spotting the Waitrose pack. Thanks, ladies, you made me laugh and I'm so pleased there are so many cookery cheats out there. I thought it was just me!

Put into pan, wash and dispose of packet outside in the bin before the guests arrive, chop up a few extra mushrooms ready to put into the sauce so that DSIL sees you doing that and pretend it's a secret recipe.

Add a touch of sour cream or whatever takes your fancy - with a flourish.

Glad I read this thread - never thought of using condensed soup. Friend coming for lunch Friday ...... sounds like a plan. I will tell the truth of course.?

I use condensed mushroom soup as a base for shepherd’s pie, with a stock cube added. It’s delicious.

If you added a packet of quorn and substituted rice for the pasta you would then have mushroom Stroganoff.This would then be a more substantial meal for six.

Ooh, that's a good idea, Greenfinch. Not sure if foody SiL would approve of quorn, though........

I've wittered on for too long about the mushroom sauce and DH has got fed up. He says I am making a big fuss and HE will do dinner on Saturday night and it won't be pasta. Oh well, I can play with the grandchildren now while he's prepping in the kitchen. Guess who'll be doing the clearing up?

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Make the sauce with Campbell's in advance! With some fresh sautéed mushrooms added. And leave a part-used punnet of mushrooms in the fridge as 'evidence' - be sure to ditch the tin(s) though! At least that's what I'd do, but then I'm devious when required.

We used to take an old aunt of dh's out for lunch regularly but eventually she'd moan non stop about whatever food it was - too hot, too cold, too tough, too sloppy, they don't know how to make pastry any more - you name it.

So we started taking lunch to her - something quick and simple since she was invariably 'starving' by 12.
She had a horror of anything frozen or tinned, everything had to be 'fresh' but more than once when hard pressed I decanted a couple of tins of M&S mince into a Tupperware, added some sautéed mushrooms - she was never any the wiser.

Hey guys, this is Cynthia

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Hope it helps
Cynthia