Homemade Tomato Sauce Recipe

Tomatoes contain about 20 percent protein, vitamin c, vitamin A, and potassium. They can be eaten either raw or cooked in al kind of different ways. You can also easily prepare a homemade tomato sauce to use with all sorts of pastas. And the best part is that you can keep the extra in small jars in your refrigerator and use them for future meals. Don’t forget to heat them up a little first. Tomato Sauce Recipe Ingredients: 10 medium or 8 big tomatoes Salt Pepper Paprika 2 medium onions Vegetable Oil Basil 1) Take the tomatoes, peel them and cut them in small chunks and put them in a bowl, add some salt, pepper and paprika and mix up everything. 2) Chop the two onions and cooked them with a little vegetable oil in a pot until they become brownish. 3) Add the tomatoes and some dried basil and [...]

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Recipe Review: Soba Noodle Soup with Shiitake and Spinach

Here’s another childhood favorite soba dish that is incredibly simple to make. Martha Shulman’s Soba Noodle Soup with Shiitake and Spinach utilizes every cooking step towards a savory and complex broth to serve. The winning ingredients for me are the buckwheat soba noodles and plenty of scallions with maybe a few dashes of Ichimi Togarashi for a little more heat. This dish is undeniably healthy with the shiitake mushrooms, buckwheat soba, and spinach – even better is that it’s something I’ve always loved as a fast lunch or even late night comfort food. Recipe: by Martha Rose Shulman Yield: 4 Servings Time: Total 1 hour 15 minutes Ingredients: 1 ounce kombu seaweed 4 dried shiitake mushrooms 3/4 pound dried soba noodles 12 ounces spinach, stemmed and washed thoroughly, or 1 6-ounce bag baby spinach, rinsed 2 green onions, chopped 1 tablespoon sake 2 tablespoons mirin 2 to 4 tablespoons low-sodium [...]

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