Great effort! Only thing I’d suggest is using tongs to take the pasta out the water, keep the water. Put the slurry in the bowl you ate out of. Then add the pasta and mix it together with the water. Stops it scrambling.
Yeah, when I put the slurry in the pan it was too hot, and I didn't move fast enough to resuce it ! I should have heated a bowl over the boiling pasta and used that rather than the pan. Next time!! Was still really tasty, and great for the bargain price!
Well done Pete, and doing it on camera is another level! Thanks for the tip on taking some of the pasta water off into a separate dish, I normally drain the pasta trying to keep some of the water underneath in a bowl, good one.
Yeah, I think doing it on camera was my downfall though - didn't move fast enough to save the sauce as too busy yapping ha ha! Was still tasty though, and for that price, well I'll take it, sauce or not!
I am not sure why I did not finish this Playlist; I only have 2 more videos to go! But better late than never. I must thank you and applaud you for not using milk or cream for the sauce. A lot of cheap meals do to bulk it out and ironically make it cheaper, but here you are without milk or cream for less than £1. Amazing! 03:05: Looking at your ingredients/price list you a whole full ramakin of cheese for 34p!?! My local takeaway must be ripping me off; I get half that amount - about 10g for £1. 🤣 From memory, I think this is one of your best recipes in this Playlist, it looks delicious and this is something I really need to try. Thank you Greeno. I really am enjoying this series of videos. The cost cutting home cooking idea for videos was genius and sets you above and beyond most food reviewers, and proves as a reviewer, you are quite diverse and not just a one-trick pony. Thank you for highlighting food on a budget. This will help so many people.
Thanks Gary, I really appreciate that. I think once the short, cold winter days come in then I may return to some similar videos to this time to time, as you say it’s nice to have a diversity of content 🙂
Loved that recipe, yes yummy, I love the Tesco's cheap pasta, it's healthy whole grain i think 🤔 x great ideas love them, i absolutely love your channel wrll done Greeno, keep them coming, love to you and your lovely family x
Yeah, I was a bit distracted by the filming, normally I drain the pasta and straight in while it’s still wet. A combination of the pasta being too dry as it had been sat for a minute, and the pan having too much heat (and me not being as fast as usual due to chatting too much ha ha). Added the water too late too as you say. Still tasted good nonetheless! Not bad for the price certainly 😀
Well done with the carbonara. The cooking bacon is great for extra flavour in a Bolognese too. I used it in pea and ham soup. 'Souper' cheap meal if you use dried peas and soak them. Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon on malted sourdough bread for me tonight. I buy the not pretty smoked salmon and cut it into tiny pieces. I used to be able to get smoked salmon bits but I haven't seen them since before the home imprisonment aka lockdown. Anyway you made a good job of that carbonara. 👍
Once again you make me jealous of your dinner - salmon, scrambled eggs and sourdough, that sounds incredible! I think this bacon has been a revelation once more. It's not the prettiest, but as you say, for things you chop it up for what does it matter! Would be great for quiches, pies, soups, in burgers. I am definitely gonna buy it more often.
@@GreenoEats that's a great idea to do a quiche. I have an old cookery book which has a recipe for egg and bacon pie, a quiche with a lid!!! In the 1990s money was really tight so it was Bolognese, Chilli con carne with extra baked beans and kidney beans but I think it was a Delia Smith recipe, a can of sardines in tomato sauce and linguine, but I used the cheap spaghetti and apart from black pepper that was it!!! 👍
@@denisemottley22705 I love those kind of improvised meals. Back when I was a student a favourite was a can of meatballs in gravy mixed with a tin of chopped tomatoes and some italian herbs, served with pasta. Not exactly haute cuisine but it was tasty enough!
@@GreenoEats Sounds like good student food. Marmite on toast seemed to be my staple. I just remembered that Delia may have added olives to make the meal of sardines and linguine more Mediterranean. Olives wouldn't have been in my pantry back then. My cousin went to Brighton University, she didn't complete her course, her meals were cornflakes in water!!! But she drank lots of other liquids 😂🤣
If you don't add cheese to the egg that helps with the silkiness of the sauce. It is the cheese that makes it claggy. If you want the cheese, sprinkle it over the dish at the end. And potentially slightly more pasta water. Looked good though mate!
Nice 1 Greeno and a great effort sir. Great to see what you really can produce on a budget. I get the impression you’re a decent cook from videos I’ve watched, celebrity Masterchef is calling Greeno!! 😀 ….Smithy
I have my moments Smithy 😀 I'd say I am not bad in the kitchen, not great, but I can rustle up something half decent! All those years at uni avoiding lectures and watching Ready Steady Cook instead haha! Surely for Celebrity Masterchef you have to be a Celebrity - although on second thoughts, given the calibre of most of the celebs they get on these kind of shoes I am probably as well known as some of them!!
@@GreenoEats Exactly Greeno get on Celebrity Masterchef! 😀 I feel I’m an ok cook when I do actually do it… living on my jack you don’t always make an effort especially when I finish work late. Enjoying the budget meals and the Fish Finger Sandwich one is on my list again now! 👍😋
Iceland now so a pre packaged piccarino carbonara (restaurant quality) for £1.75 which is excellent value. I have just had one and it was delicious..worth a try mate.
Nice to meet you Sylvia. Probably my favourite meal to cook is our Christmas Dinner, nice roasted meats and potatoes, lots of veggies, stuffing, Yorkshire pudding, gravy, the works 🙂 We normally have some family come round to join us for the meal and it’s a nice celebration. The cooking in our house is quite evenly split between myself and Mrs Greeno normally, she’s a great cook 🙂
Less than a pound ideas... Spaghetti Bolognese Chilli con carne (BBC recipe, but no chocolate). Chicken kebabs Lasagne Moussaka A full English Soup Sausage, mash and beans Chicken Fried rice (with msg) and Mayflower curry sauce petals of onions, handful of peas. Chicken ceasars salad Delia smiths 'Chicken and Puy lentils' - my favourite dish, may struggle for a £1 (half and half red wine and water for the Puy lentils) I've got an excellent creamed Chicken and broccoli recipe I've got an awesome easy to do Pat Chapman Pakistani curry 'cheat' recipe
Some excellent ideas there! I’ll have to look into the costings to see if I can make some of those work… anything with meat in is automatically a bit trickier. The recipe with the wine in would definitely be tough to get into budget ha ha! Thanks for all the ideas.
You must be a mind reader, I had spaghetti cabanara last night. Waitrose, the ASDA one is very good also. Can't beat homemade. Ps I think ASDA do a low cost garlic bread 👍
Reasonably authentic is pushing it! 😂 Unfortunately carbonara is one of those dishes if you can’t afford to make it the proper way it shouldn’t be made What is the lettuce and Caesar dressing for??? 🤯 Pasta water is added to the egg and cheese cream which would cook it so it’s safe and then it’s added to the pan with the pasta and bacon in this case with more pasta water to become the silky sauce 👍 The heat should be very low or off so it doesn’t scramble
Is that the guy who also reviews other folks Italian cookery (regularly getting very upset by Jamie Oliver or Gordon Ramsay and their “twists” on Italian classics)? If so I have caught bits and pieces of his stuff, he’s quite entertaining!
Apart from the cheffing mess up at the end, I think this is a pretty good recipe (still tasted good!)… would you try it making it?
And let me know your favourite pasta recipes, there are so many of them!
My favourite used to be Spaghetti Bolognese but I think I prefer spaghetti cabanara now.
@@nigel8499 we have Spag Bol a lot at home, a real favourite
Great effort! Only thing I’d suggest is using tongs to take the pasta out the water, keep the water. Put the slurry in the bowl you ate out of. Then add the pasta and mix it together with the water. Stops it scrambling.
Yeah, when I put the slurry in the pan it was too hot, and I didn't move fast enough to resuce it ! I should have heated a bowl over the boiling pasta and used that rather than the pan. Next time!! Was still really tasty, and great for the bargain price!
Honestly this is great Greeno mate, Carbonara is so simple as a dish and has no cream as most would stick in. Lovely little lunch.
Even better if I didn't screw it up right at the end ha ha! But it was still tasty enough 🙂
Looks lovely. Will try your recipe soon
Thanks Lynn, just make sure that the pan isn’t too hot in the final stage, sauce is better than scramble 🤣
Well done Pete, and doing it on camera is another level! Thanks for the tip on taking some of the pasta water off into a separate dish, I normally drain the pasta trying to keep some of the water underneath in a bowl, good one.
Yeah, I think doing it on camera was my downfall though - didn't move fast enough to save the sauce as too busy yapping ha ha! Was still tasty though, and for that price, well I'll take it, sauce or not!
I am not sure why I did not finish this Playlist; I only have 2 more videos to go! But better late than never.
I must thank you and applaud you for not using milk or cream for the sauce. A lot of cheap meals do to bulk it out and ironically make it cheaper, but here you are without milk or cream for less than £1. Amazing!
03:05: Looking at your ingredients/price list you a whole full ramakin of cheese for 34p!?! My local takeaway must be ripping me off; I get half that amount - about 10g for £1. 🤣
From memory, I think this is one of your best recipes in this Playlist, it looks delicious and this is something I really need to try. Thank you Greeno.
I really am enjoying this series of videos. The cost cutting home cooking idea for videos was genius and sets you above and beyond most food reviewers, and proves as a reviewer, you are quite diverse and not just a one-trick pony.
Thank you for highlighting food on a budget. This will help so many people.
Thanks Gary, I really appreciate that. I think once the short, cold winter days come in then I may return to some similar videos to this time to time, as you say it’s nice to have a diversity of content 🙂
Didn't think that looked to bad at all, looked delicious,cheers Greeno. 👍💯💥✨️
Would have been better if I had just got the final touch right! Oh well, next time 😂
Wow, what a lovely, delish meal, who does not love a carbonara ❤ Thank you for the pasta budget meal ❤
Even better when it's cooked properly Jessi 😂 But it was still tasty and very good value!
@@GreenoEats only the taste matters 👍
Looked delicious Greeno! Like the way you keep the pasta on the spoon not the fork, will try that way! X
Is it the right way or wrong way though?
Im definitely trying this one. I love your cooking videos. Actually, i just love your videos ❤
I hope you don't mess up the end like I did 🤣
Loved that recipe, yes yummy, I love the Tesco's cheap pasta, it's healthy whole grain i think 🤔 x great ideas love them, i absolutely love your channel wrll done Greeno, keep them coming, love to you and your lovely family x
Thanks Joanne, much appreciated!
Made like a true Italian ( of which I am one). Great job.
Apart from the mess up at the end haha!
Great fork and spoon action mate! Not the traditional Italian way but it's the easiest way to eat spaghetti in my opinion!
Yep, it's the best way isn't it Steve (plus you always pick up more pasta than you should, so get a good mouthful!!)
That looked yummy! Well done!
Thanks 🙂
Not bad but u needed more of the pasta water in the pan initially for the egg mix to emulsify
Yeah, I was a bit distracted by the filming, normally I drain the pasta and straight in while it’s still wet. A combination of the pasta being too dry as it had been sat for a minute, and the pan having too much heat (and me not being as fast as usual due to chatting too much ha ha). Added the water too late too as you say. Still tasted good nonetheless! Not bad for the price certainly 😀
Well done with the carbonara. The cooking bacon is great for extra flavour in a Bolognese too. I used it in pea and ham soup. 'Souper' cheap meal if you use dried peas and soak them. Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon on malted sourdough bread for me tonight. I buy the not pretty smoked salmon and cut it into tiny pieces. I used to be able to get smoked salmon bits but I haven't seen them since before the home imprisonment aka lockdown. Anyway you made a good job of that carbonara. 👍
Once again you make me jealous of your dinner - salmon, scrambled eggs and sourdough, that sounds incredible! I think this bacon has been a revelation once more. It's not the prettiest, but as you say, for things you chop it up for what does it matter! Would be great for quiches, pies, soups, in burgers. I am definitely gonna buy it more often.
@@GreenoEats that's a great idea to do a quiche. I have an old cookery book which has a recipe for egg and bacon pie, a quiche with a lid!!! In the 1990s money was really tight so it was Bolognese, Chilli con carne with extra baked beans and kidney beans but I think it was a Delia Smith recipe, a can of sardines in tomato sauce and linguine, but I used the cheap spaghetti and apart from black pepper that was it!!! 👍
@@denisemottley22705 I love those kind of improvised meals. Back when I was a student a favourite was a can of meatballs in gravy mixed with a tin of chopped tomatoes and some italian herbs, served with pasta. Not exactly haute cuisine but it was tasty enough!
@@GreenoEats Sounds like good student food. Marmite on toast seemed to be my staple. I just remembered that Delia may have added olives to make the meal of sardines and linguine more Mediterranean. Olives wouldn't have been in my pantry back then. My cousin went to Brighton University, she didn't complete her course, her meals were cornflakes in water!!! But she drank lots of other liquids 😂🤣
Nice! 😋
If you don't add cheese to the egg that helps with the silkiness of the sauce. It is the cheese that makes it claggy. If you want the cheese, sprinkle it over the dish at the end. And potentially slightly more pasta water. Looked good though mate!
Would have looked better if I hadn't ballsed it up at the end ha ha! But still tasted decent mate.
Nice 1 Greeno and a great effort sir. Great to see what you really can produce on a budget. I get the impression you’re a decent cook from videos I’ve watched, celebrity Masterchef is calling Greeno!! 😀 ….Smithy
I have my moments Smithy 😀 I'd say I am not bad in the kitchen, not great, but I can rustle up something half decent! All those years at uni avoiding lectures and watching Ready Steady Cook instead haha! Surely for Celebrity Masterchef you have to be a Celebrity - although on second thoughts, given the calibre of most of the celebs they get on these kind of shoes I am probably as well known as some of them!!
@@GreenoEats Exactly Greeno get on Celebrity Masterchef! 😀 I feel I’m an ok cook when I do actually do it… living on my jack you don’t always make an effort especially when I finish work late. Enjoying the budget meals and the Fish Finger Sandwich one is on my list again now! 👍😋
@@theabandonedhunter3604 yeah it's hard to get the motivation when you're on your tod, been there fella.
Phoar! And a £1 proper carbonara! I always cheat and use cream, every time I've tried with egg I end up scrambling it🤣🤣
It’s just a heat thing that turns it to scramble… low heat = sauce, too high heat = scrambled. As I found out ha ha!! Too distracted by filming 🤣
Iceland now so a pre packaged piccarino carbonara (restaurant quality) for £1.75 which is excellent value. I have just had one and it was delicious..worth a try mate.
Thanks for the tip 🙂
Don't forget to add some pasta water to the sauce to loosen it up a bit.
Yep, rookie error!
very nice idea for a budget meal..PS..BTW the problem with subscriptions falling off seems to have been fixed now.
Thanks pal - glad they have fixed the issue of subs randomly disappearing - now I just have to focus on more subs appearing ha ha!
What's your favourite thing to cook?
Who does the cooking mostly at home?
That was a VERY cheap pasta recipe.
Sylvia aged 10 from New Zealand.
Nice to meet you Sylvia. Probably my favourite meal to cook is our Christmas Dinner, nice roasted meats and potatoes, lots of veggies, stuffing, Yorkshire pudding, gravy, the works 🙂 We normally have some family come round to join us for the meal and it’s a nice celebration.
The cooking in our house is quite evenly split between myself and Mrs Greeno normally, she’s a great cook 🙂
Less than a pound ideas...
Spaghetti Bolognese
Chilli con carne (BBC recipe, but no chocolate).
Chicken kebabs
Lasagne
Moussaka
A full English
Soup
Sausage, mash and beans
Chicken Fried rice (with msg) and Mayflower curry sauce petals of onions, handful of peas.
Chicken ceasars salad
Delia smiths 'Chicken and Puy lentils' - my favourite dish, may struggle for a £1 (half and half red wine and water for the Puy lentils)
I've got an excellent creamed Chicken and broccoli recipe
I've got an awesome easy to do Pat Chapman Pakistani curry 'cheat' recipe
Some excellent ideas there! I’ll have to look into the costings to see if I can make some of those work… anything with meat in is automatically a bit trickier. The recipe with the wine in would definitely be tough to get into budget ha ha! Thanks for all the ideas.
You must be a mind reader, I had spaghetti cabanara last night.
Waitrose, the ASDA one is very good also.
Can't beat homemade.
Ps
I think ASDA do a low cost garlic bread 👍
Asda Carbonara huh, something you’d expect to be really average but it’s actually good? Interesting.
Reasonably authentic is pushing it! 😂
Unfortunately carbonara is one of those dishes if you can’t afford to make it the proper way it shouldn’t be made
What is the lettuce and Caesar dressing for??? 🤯
Pasta water is added to the egg and cheese cream which would cook it so it’s safe and then it’s added to the pan with the pasta and bacon in this case with more pasta water to become the silky sauce 👍
The heat should be very low or off so it doesn’t scramble
Ha ha, yes I really screwed this up at the end didn’t I! I do like a side salad though with a pasta dish
I follow 'Vincenzo's plate'. He does a cabanara.
Is that the guy who also reviews other folks Italian cookery (regularly getting very upset by Jamie Oliver or Gordon Ramsay and their “twists” on Italian classics)? If so I have caught bits and pieces of his stuff, he’s quite entertaining!
That pan has seen better days.🤭😄🦘
I prefer to think of it as "well seasoned" :-)