Showing posts with label tomato. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tomato. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Basic Red Sauce

Originally posted: 25 may 2008:

I've got a couple of basic recipes to put up. I've been putting it off, because I realised the other day that this blog has outgrown what I originally meant for it. So I'm moving it, but I haven't fixed up the other page yet. So, procrastination is my name at the moment.

This is for my friend Star, who a few weeks ago, asked me if I had a good plain tomato sauce for pasta recipe. I usually just make a sauce up as I go, with a few basic things, so I tried out a few different things, and have decided that this batch was a good basic recipe. You can make this, and add other things to it to make quick different sauces. Bacon and chilli, for Spicy Bacon Pasta. Olives, capers, capsicum and a good italian sausage for a variation of Puttanesca. Add a whole batch to some browned mince, and you've got a basic bolognaise.

I learned sometimes the simplest sauce you could make, was cooking some crushed garlic, adding a good tomato sugo, fresh basil leaves and seasoning. And that is a good sauce. But other times, it's nice to have a bit of variation.



See? A plain tomato sauce :)