I love a sauce made from fresh tomatoes as much as anyone, but in the winter… I refuse to buy tomatoes in the winter as they’re so tasteless and of dubious texture. I grow tomatoes in the summer and would rather do without when they’re like cardboard. But canned tomatoes are of decent quality to…
Sauces, Dressing, etc.
Green Goddess Dressing
I felt like a creamy sort of salad dressing tonight, but not the ubiquitous Ranch and I didn’t have much in the house in terms of blue cheese or anything. In thumbing through old cookbooks, I ran across a recipe for Green Goddess dressing that sounded good. I’d heard of it before but I don’t…
Easy Alfredo Sauce
This easy alfredo sauce is good on plain pasta, raviolis or as part of a shrimp and pasta dish or vegetable and pasta.
Marinara Sauce Redux
Again with the tomatoes… This time I started with a recipe from Feed Your Family Fast, Healthy Meals on $10 a Day but roughly tripled it. The colander of tomatoes had been staring at me for a couple of days and more appear daily on the plants! I’ll say up front that it came out…
Pasta or Pizza Sauce with Fresh Tomatoes
I’ve made this before with canned diced tomatoes but not yet fresh. I’m just at the simmering point as I write this and have already added a bit of water. I think alot of the juices ran off the cutting board when I was dicing them. The garden is loaded with Romas right now so…