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Tomato Paste replacement for canned tomato

Tomato Paste replacement for canned tomato This is a recipe for how to use tomato paste as a replacement for canned tomato. It’s a recipe I created during the COVID pandemic lockdown here in Sydney, Australia, during which supermarket shelves were emptied of canned foods including canned tomato (crushed, diced etc). Background – COVID and the canned tomato shortage […]

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Tomato Passata

What is Tomato Passata? Tomato Passata is pureed, strained tomatoes usually sold in bottles. It’s 100% tomato, no additives or flavourings, but sometimes contains added salt. It’s uniform and smooth unlike crushed or chopped tomatoes, and makes gorgeously  thick tomato-based sauces. It’s known as Tomato Puree in the US . Though more widely available nowadays, and around

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Garlic cheese pizza

Garlic cheese pizza Does any visit to your favourite pizzeria start without garlic cheese pizza? Of course not! My best garlic pizza uses both parmesan and mozzarella, and infuses olive oil with garlic (it only takes 10 minutes). It’s outrageously good! Pizza base choices: RecipeTin classic pizza base, speedy no-yeast pizza base or store-bought. Garlic cheese pizza My

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Capricciosa

Pizza Capricciosa Pizza Capricciosa This is a pizza that Australians expect to see on every pizza menu, no matter how traditional Italian or how big-chain the pizzeria in question is. Ironically though, as soon as I wrote that sentence, I popped onto the Pizza Hut website only to find that gasp, shock, horror Capricciosa is not on

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