My pasta sauce is boring......any ideas?
Mar 27, 2011, 5:45 pm
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Mar 27, 2011, 5:50 pm
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Strangely enough jars of anchovies are readily available here in the supermarket. Can't imagine why as getting decent fish is impossible. Again, the wife would hunt me down if I gave her them....she hates anything fishy. 
Mar 27, 2011, 5:53 pm
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Mar 27, 2011, 7:06 pm
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mushrooms...fresh, sliced and sauteeded in a little garlic and onion...along with either some sausage or pork...along with the rest of your ingredients. making it right now...can't wait
Mar 27, 2011, 7:22 pm
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Sourcing fresh mushrooms is a problem.....can only get them at a certain time of the year. Might have to be tinned.
Mar 27, 2011, 8:49 pm
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The easiest, quickest answer is: whatever you have in your fridge. Seriously, pasta sauce can handle almost any ingredient added to it. So open your fridge, and look at any leftovers you can use (you may have to rinse off existing sauce or what not or chop stuff up), or look at your fresh veg, mushrooms, or tubers. Then start looking at your frozen stuff. Your base technique is fine. You may have to stagger the adding of ingredients depending on what they are.
Mar 27, 2011, 8:54 pm
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Yes, it is amazing how hard/impossible it is to find fresh mushrooms in Brazil as well, even in large modern supermarkets such as Carrefour.
Mar 27, 2011, 8:54 pm
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If you have your parrilla fired up, you could BBQ whole tomatoes so the skin is a bit charred. Remove the charred skin and use the tomatoes in your sauce. The smoked flavour will be just strong enough. Peppers/capsicums would be nice too.
Could also roast the other veg you put in such as onions, garlic, carrots first (if you don't saute them which is what I usually do).
Could also roast the other veg you put in such as onions, garlic, carrots first (if you don't saute them which is what I usually do).
