Pimp my tomato sauce II
Posted on Mar 22, 2009 09:26:47 AM
Another pimped tomato sauce. More than a week without a post: it had to happen sooner or later. The thing is, last week-end I traded the cooking frenzy with a relaxing spa break in Donegal, and this has been St Patrick’s week, and the next is quarter end, which usually means doing a lot of hours of overtime and having a more intense relationship with SAP than with my oven.
Anyway, with very little time to cook, and in an effort to make a virtue out of necessity (fare di necessità virtù, we would say), the only possible outcome could be a second pasta sauce pimping, which means, taking a regular tomato sauce and adding some flavour.
The recipe is like the one for the basic pimp my sauce, but with some salami sausage. I used the German one coated in pepper they sell at Lidl.
Dice 4-5 slices of this salami, and add it to the leek at the beginning. The taste of this sauce is a bit stronger, you’ll love it.
Pimp my pasta sauce
Posted on Feb 26, 2009 05:37:44 PM
Can this pasta sauce be called a recipe? Let’s say it’s something less than a recipe and something more than a ready meal. This is the idea: let’s take Lidl’s tomato sauce, which is excellent, and pimp it.
For a basic tomato pimped sauce for two people you’ll need:
- ½ jar of ready tomato sauce
- ½ leek
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- salt and pepper
- about 10 olives
I guess you already know what to do, right?
Heat a pan, add the olive oil and the finely chopped leek. Sauté at low heat until it’s lucid but not yet brown, then pour the tomato sauce and the olives. Let it go for 10 minutes and this pasta sauce is all pimped and ready.