I’m trying to learn to buy groceries, cook for myself again.
Can’t afford to buy and keep produce. Limited cookware. So, any recipe telling me to crush garlic, dice onions, etc, can’t do.
Need budget, ghetto, for people on a fixed income, easy no frills way to make diy tomato paste pasta sauce.
Good suggestions so far. Tks. I have 1 bowl, 1 plate, 1 spoon, 1 fork, 1 butter knife ; 1 small sauce pan; Only stores nearby are corner stores. Hardly any produce. Having to make due with what you can find in a liquor store.
Get the small saucepan.
Put some cheap cooking oil in it. Fry onions in it. Honestly buy a small knife and cut them on your plate or whatever, its worth it.
Then chuck in garlic paste/garlic salt if you got it. And a teaspoon of Paprika. Salt. Pepper
If you’ve got some minced/ground meat cook it in the oil too.
The reason we do this step is because oil holds flavour and this will honestly make your sauce taste way better.
if you have access to a grater grate some carrot into it. Doesn’t change the taste but makes the meal bigger. Same thing with split red lentils.
chuck in a tin of tomatoes or tomato puree or whatever tomato base you got.
throw in your herbs, hopefully basil and oregano or else “italian seasoning”.
Cook it for about 10 min bam you’re done.