Cooking Sunday

preparing the ingredients

I was going to clean the house yesterday. I decided to do my food shopping first. My fruit and vegtable shop has a table at the back with 'specials'. Fruit and vegies that need to be eaten today and even canned and packaged food that is close to the expire date.
I found 2 kg of roma tomatoes (just the quantity I need for a chutney recipe that I want to try) for $4, plus 4 cans of Italian peeled tomatoes for $3.40. These will make a tomato sauce that will be frozen.
Of course cleaning went right out of my mind, I could already imagine the smell of chutney cooking, and I hadn't even unpacked the car.

A sample of the final product

After making the chutney, I realized that the basil in the garden really need a trim. I then made 4 batches of pesto.