21 March 2012

Don't Spend $200 at the Supermarket This Year














1.Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
4.Put the chicken into a roasting dish.







You have three choices:

3.You can shop elsewhere.

Number three is my first choice.


What's your choice?


  1. K AndrijasevichThursday, May 17, 2012

    I have been looking for your recipe for 'crockpot pasta sauce' & haven't had any luck. Can you steer me in the right direction? I too have a surplus of tomatoes & capsicum & would love to bottle some pasta sauce!

  2. I don't have a recipe as such. I use tomatoes, onions, garlic, basil, oregano as the base then add other veggies if I have them: carrots, capsicum, zucchini, celery.

    Generally just quarter the tomatoes, dice onion, crush garlic. Slice other veggies if I'm using them. Cook onion and garlic (and other veggies if using) in a little olive oil until soft, add tomatoes and herbs and let it simmer.

    Leave it as is for a chunky sauce or use a stick mixer to blend it all together for a smooth sauce.

    You can do this in a saucepan on the stove, in a slowcooker or in a pressure cooker.

    There are some lovely tomato sauce recipes in the Recipe File, in the Sauces and Gravies section.

  3. Cath, could you please tell me what you bottle your pasta sauce in? I have looked at jars from the greek shop that are like the commercial jars, and they cost quite a bit - i can recycle the jars but i will need to buy new lids each time because the seals are single use only.

  4. I use Fowlers Vacola bottles or recycle pasta sauce bottles, depending on how many bottles I have and how much sauce I'm making.

    You can buy new lids for the recycled pasta sauce bottles if you need to. If the rubber seal is intact you can re-use them.

  5. Jam-jars are completely re-usable (and work for sauces as well as for jams). I haven't done it myself, but I remember helping my mother make jams and sauces, and the jars seal as the contents cools. The jars with buttons are the easiest to recognise as sealed - it pops, and I remember being surprised by the unexpected sound when I was doing my schoolwork! Don't forget to heat the jars in hot tap water so they won't crack when you pour hot contents into them.



Just a couple of things:
