Scrumdiddlyumptious

To coin a word from the late great Roald Dahl and one that forms part of his Dictionary – there's nothing better than nonsense words to explain what you're trying to say.

This word describes perfectly the Alfredo sauce mentioned in My Quest and, to do the sauce justice, I feel I should elaborate on the flexibility of said sauce apart from using with pasta.

To begin, I served it to my Ladies in a recent class, as a warm dip with rice crackers. I wanted them to taste the sauce in its most simple form – they said “one to be used again and again”, “beautifully smooth velvety sauce” and “so simple and versatile”. As is always the case you can mess with it if you so wish by adding garlic paste.

Its other uses :

Add sautéed mushrooms to the sauce and serve with a smoked chicken breast

Add sautéed mushrooms to the sauce and serve as a crostini topping

Remember the recent Stromboli recipe – use the sauce on the base for a change

instead of tomato paste and add bits and pieces of your choice

- vegetarian or not - whatever takes your fancy

Serve with smoked haddock and asparagus

The sauce, in a covered container, will keep in the fridge for up to 3 days. You can freeze it – but give some thought to the quantities that you'd generally use and freeze accordingly. Note to self – remember the small pots from the baby aisle in your supermarket. These pots are really useful and come in bright colours – easy to see in your freezer but don't take up unnecessary space.

The pots shown in the photograph below are by Vital Baby and come in packs of four. You'll see from the photograph that these little beauties have a tiny non-slip circle on the base so the pots stay where they are put when you are filling them and don't end up on the floor!

I will now shut up about the Alfredo sauce – I hope you love it as much as I do!