Can I just chop up a tomato and throw it in a pan with olive oil and garlic and basil? Will that work to toss on top of pasta? It seems like it would, but I've never made sauce from a raw tomato (as opposed to canned crushed tomatoes).
I've done that, and it's turned out just fine.
Wow, teppy, that sounds good to me.
I'm currently eating fresh guacamole with my tacos AIFG.
Thanks.
OK, now that I've actually read the recipe, you're supposed to grind the almonds and 1/4 cup of sugar in a food processor to make a paste, and then use 1 1/2 cups of that paste. Which would seem to me to mean that you'd have to measure out a bit more than 1 1/2 cups of almonds, because a lot of that measuring cup space would be air space between the almonds, right? But maybe air gets beaten into the paste, or something. (And I'm just reading the recipe for a "maybe I'll try this sometime later," so this is entirely theoretical right now.)
Can I just chop up a tomato and throw it in a pan with olive oil and garlic and basil? Will that work to toss on top of pasta?
Yes. If you have time, roasting the tomato first (cut in half, place cut-side down on a foil-lined baking sheet, sprinkle with salt pepper and olive oil, bake at 350-400 until soft and squooshy and a little browned, about 30-45 minutes) will concentrate the flavors and make for a richer-tasting sauce.
What Jess said, about the tomato-roasting. It's yummy.
The current National Geographic magazine has a nice big article on Bollywood. Those folks are hotties.
I don't know if I can wait 30-40 minutes to roast a tomato. I'm pretty hungry now.
P-C, Vidhi sounds like the sort of kid you'd expect to see on TV one day, crawling out of a well and then crawling out of the screen to come after you.
Ha! Oh man. I fear for how that kid's going to turn out if her parents don't damn well discipline her.
and Hec and Nonian want spoilers.
Travelogue spoilers? Buffistas delight me.
Hil, what everyone else said. Tep, yes.
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Now I am hungry and boys got delayed. Something about a flight and something else about god. I'm not ready yet so I said it was okay. But damn I am hungry.