Cooking Fresh Food - breaking the jar/can/bottle habit...
This thread is a bit of a spin off from the "How often do you cook the same meal" thread.
If you regularly buy prepared/processed cans, jars or bottles of food at the supermarket then I'd like to see if we can suggest ways of achieving the same or similar result using fresh ingredients without any complex cooking skills.
My view is that most of these products are inferior and more expensive than the original recipes that are trying to replace, bizarrely some of them also seem to be more labour intensive - they also limit the range of your menu, a raw product can be used in thousands of different ways, but something prepared is going to give a much more limited range of results.
So, if you regularly buy sauces, salad dressings, packet mixes, etc and would like to give this a try then join the thread - Post the details of the product you buy, rough idea of cost and what you usually do with it (do you follow the instructions, or do you make something else with it?) and what you like about the result (why you chose this product/recipe)
Index:-
Open Requests:-
Little Miss Sunshine - Stagg Chilli
Briggsy's Girl - Tomato Sauce - anything to do with capsicum, chilli, tomato, corn, pumpkin, huge zucchini, cucumber, lettuce, peas, beans, leek, apples, peaches, cauliflower or broccoli
Laranna - Lamb or beef casserole
Netix - continental pasta mix, pasta sauces, simmer sauces
Tali - Devilled Sausages, Taco Mix, creamy country chicken, chicken cacciatore, chicken tonight, rogan josh, butter chicken, korma, hollandaise sauce
Sangie - Black Bean Sauce
Sasha28 - what do I do with wholemeal s/r flour and wheatgerm
Sloane - Pepper Sauce for Steak
Cooking Fresh Food - breaking the jar/can/bottle habit...
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