Recipes

topic posted Tue, April 3, 2007 - 9:34 AM by  Karen
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Salsa -(Onion & Garlic Free)

I made tacos on Sunday for my friend, he said it was fine if there was no salsa, but I just couldn't imagine tacos without salsa. (Haven't had actual tacos in a while because we started making a taco salad instead with ranch dressing instead of salsa).

This is the result of my experiment. My friend said he liked it better than normal salsa.

2 tomatoes
½ yellow pepper (probably red or green would be just as good, but the ones in the store were the pits!)
jalapeño pepper (2 slices [2-3mm thick each])
1 or 2 tsp salt

I sliced one tomato into quarters, and put it in the food processor and blended it, but it came out like mush. Then I thought I'd better add the jalapeño pepper so I could make sure I got it small enough. I made it into pieces about 1-2mm. Then I did the yellow pepper- be careful not to make it too small, it's good for texture, then the other tomato and the salt.

I hope you like it too. : )

Please tell me what you think. Please rate this recipe out of 5 stars. (Too bad I don't have a star feature.)
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Karen
Toronto
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  • Re: Recipes

    Tue, April 3, 2007 - 10:40 AM
    Spaghetti

    I have found that “Hunt's Tomato Sauce” (make sure it's not their spaghetti sauce) has a very minuscule amount of onions and garlic, and that I can tolerate it. I thought it had none, but I just noticed that in the ingredients there is “spice” and “flavour”. I phoned them, and they said that yes it does have onion and garlic oil in the tomato sauce, but that it was an extremely small amount compared to the amounts of other ingredients in the sauce.
    The ingredient list is: “water, tomato paste, salt, citric acid, spice, flavour”. Hmmmm maybe I'll experiment with making tomato sauce out of just water, tomato paste, salt, and maybe sugar.
    Anyway, in the mean time, my recipe for spaghetti sauce is:

    Brown 1 lb ground beef,
    add:
    1 can Hunts Tomato Sauce
    2 tsp dried basil
    ½ tsp thyme
    ½ tsp oregano
    salt and pepper to taste.
    stir and heat.
    add cooked carrots,
    mushrooms
    zucchini etc. if desired.

    Good luck : )
    Please feel free to rate this recipe too.
    • Re: Recipes

      Wed, April 4, 2007 - 2:02 AM
      Hi all
      a great way to spice up home-made tomato sauce is to add paprika, black pepper and all the usual herbs. the paprika seems to add a really nice flavour. Great for adding to ghoulash too!
      I always make my own sauce these days as nearly every one i buy has onions in - as they have great flavour and hardly cost anything - and i have to say i much prefer my own sauces now. The manufactured ones always seem so full of unneccessary salt and spices etc.
      • Re: Recipes

        Wed, April 18, 2007 - 5:11 PM
        Thanks for the idea. I'll have to try that too.
        • Re: Recipes

          Thu, November 19, 2009 - 8:48 AM
          With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I'm finding myself grumbling over the fact that the pre-made stuffing has onions in it. I miss stuffing. Does anyone have a good recipe for homemade stuffing?
          • Re: Recipes

            Sat, November 28, 2009 - 4:02 PM
            Hi Shiloh,

            I missed stuffing for many years, too, until I decided to learn to make my own. BUT I used garlic - can you eat that?

            With minced garlic, I used finely diced celery and carrots, thyme, paprika, olive oil or butter, bread crumbs in a salted broth I made by simmering giblets while the turkey cooked. I'm sorry I don't have portions - I just tried to make it look like the pre-packaged stuffing! (I also made the prepackaged kind for the family in case mine didn't turn out, the first year!)

            This year I used onions and apple, too - see my post about eating onions again!

            Best wishes!

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