Yum!

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I make a good pasta sauce, even if I say so myself. I was a bit nervous as to how it would come out, since it had been years since I had made any and I was foggy on a bunch of the details (like what's the best chutney::chocolate ratio?). Well, I just had some pasta with the new sauce, and it was quite tasty indeed!

I am most pleased.

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[rehenazelreyhan.livejournal.com]

SoooOOO...what's the recipe?

[swestrup]

I don't really have a recipe, just some notes. What went into this batch is:

4 Large cans of tomatoes.
1 large onion
1 whole head (8-10 cloves) of garlic
1/4 cup oregano (had an oops)
1/4 cup parsley (ditto)
a sprig of dried basil (from last years garden)
a sprig of thyme (ditto)
1/2 a habanero pepper.
3-4 dried chinese peppers.
4 large sticks of celery, diced
1 lb of ground beef, browned.
2 bay leaves.
1 tsp crushed red pepper.

I fried the beef in the onion, garlic, habaneros and bay leaves (so they could easily be removed). Then everything went into a big pot to simmer. It came out a little thin, so I'm currently simmering it a bit more before putting it into containers for freezing. (As I now suddenly recall, I used to drain one or two of the tomato cans before adding them, so there would be less liquid.)

[rehenazelreyhan.livejournal.com]

Chinese peppers?

This sounds like one succulent recipe! *considers vegetarian-izing it*

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There's a Chinese grocery store we sometimes go to. We found a package of dried peppers there and bought them in the hopes that they were hot (out in the West Island 'hot' peppers are usually quite mild). They proved quite good (and hot), but we can't read the text on the package, so we've no idea what kind of pepper they are.

I'm sure that a vegetarian version of this would work fine.

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BTW, my notes also recommended trying sage, rosemary and marjorum, but we were out, so I didn't.

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

We have loads of marjoram and a little bit of rosemary.

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Well, I couldn't find either of them!

[sps.livejournal.com]

If you entered the characters from the character picker I could try out my dictionary on them. Although one suspects that the translation will be 'special vegetable', since it almost always is.

And, um, I suddenly realise I only recently developed a nonzero probability of finding things in the index :-}.

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That would be an interesting experiment, but today I finished the peppers and threw out the bag.

[sps.livejournal.com]

I don't think I am up for chocolate covered lime pickle, though it would make your mouth go 'ooh!' (just before it turns inside out and you explode). But I bet there's nothing wrong with stirring chocolate chips into the Branston! It is, after all, almost entirely composed of brown lumps.

Brown lumps, yum!