Lee Winger

add the basil right at the end of cooking

My cousin lived in Blackheath, you could have popped around his and got a jar for yourself, hes in MonkeyDs manor these days...

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Ok here goes Basic tomato sauce, Napoli style.. Olive oil 5 table spoons [not extra virgin , we never cook with extra virgin, we only use virgin oil raw on top of soups or in salad dressings] 2 onions half bulb of garlic 2 bottles passata [bottled smooth or rough chopped tomatos buy the most expensive , never buy the ones with herbs and garlic in] Oregano thyme 2 glasses red wine chili flakes salt to taste pinch sugar 2 glasses red wine Soften the garlic and onion in the oil [finely chopped , very fine] do not burn! Add passata, herbs salt , suger, wine , chili , bring to boil , simmer gently for 2 hours good sauces are simmered for a long time, longer the better, stir often, never let the sauce catch/burn/stick to the bottom of the pan , add water if needed, the finnished sauce should have condesed to two thirds.. If you want a meat sauce add pork and beef mince at the same time as the onions and garlic, never confuse a meat sauce with Bolagnese ragu, which contains chicken livers, pork and beef and very little tomato only 1/2 table spoon of tomato puree and no herbs some even frown on garlic. Anyway back to my sauce, when cooked, either bottle or freeze, if there is to much. To this sauce you can add meatballs, fried italian fresh sausage [to which it would accompany polenta not pasta] In summer Italians would add a handfull of chopped basil to this sauce. You add mushrooms just quickly fried, or aubergines, courgettes, peppers or a combination again fried This sauce is good with polpo [octopus] or calimari[squid] Meat and veg sauces you can sprinkle parmesan cheese or pecorino [the most common cheese in Italy] but never put cheese on a sauce with seafood..

No mate no good, well not imo, well your nearly there ish

What do you want meat sauce or just tomato?

you know I was about to do that honestly...

Well being part Italian I sure can! but then i'd have to kill you... yuk Loyd Grossmans sauce

Good point

I say fake too

Even more money in the kitty then to bring a prosecution....

ahh its not a Husky on closer inspection, I beg your pardon....

whats the point your trying to make?

If I lived in the above area i'd wan't to know why my council tax isn't being used by the planning department ie the tree officer to prosecute the rogues responsible for the oak....

years ago we used to take the ferry between Helsingor and Helsingborg..

Never thought about it like that, good points raised..

to the left of Toscano [Tuscany] national dish roast kid [goat] Do you know folks in Sardinia they eat a cheese [sheeps cheese Pecorino] thats riddled with maggots and stinks of amonia, aparently its banned [EU who else] but the locals refuse to stop eating it.. Lovely olive trees by the way

take a fishing rod, I read in total sea fishing mag , about some paratroopers on training, who caught loads of cod up to 38lb from the shore

If the ground is compacted the worms won't want to live there, too much hard work compacted clay for a little worm, much better accomodation elswhere.. Wood decaying fungal spores can be found 2 miles up in the atmosphere, they are in the air , on our clothes, on the tyres of vehicles, wood decaying fungi are our prime concerns arboriculturally taking, so no I wouldn't worry about disease and mulch, i'd be more concerened about your compaction problem, ie poor drainage, lack of moisture penetration, lack of oxygen etc etc ....

I suggest decompaction with the air-pick David and mulch with woodchip, an easy job and not very expensive.. As with most things there is a right and wrong way to decompact, I mean we wouldn't want to decompact to such an extent that the tree falls over the very next storm we have..

Whats the problem , with some of my special fert and decompaction they'll be as good as ever, well thats what a landscape architect tried to tell me a few months back

Rich ''thank your mother for the rabbits'' lol

No Barrmundi for me mate , they live in the top end of Australia, i'm going to the east coast , 100k's north of Sydney.. I'll be fishing for these boys though [ame] [/ame] And I know just where they hangout, or did as for Rex Hunt he's a legend, far better than that smarmy prat, John Wilson..

good idea

never seen that before, I can think of a few people i'd like to try my ''red-staining inocybe'' coffee on though lol