Baked Tomato Sauce - Homemade from fresh tomatoes

20 small Plum or Roma tomatoes splited lengthwise and seeded - use fingers for this job or a spoon will do a more cleaner job
Line this in a glass baking pans
Sprintz with olive oil
Add one Tbsp each oregano and thyme fresh - if used dry cut to 2tsp each
1/2 tsp salt
Grinds of black pepper
1 cup finely diced onion - red , yellow or white, choice in yours
2 tsp finely mined garlic
1 bay leaf

Into 325 degree oven....
Now why not use a pot like others, because by surrounding it with dry heat , we can remove the excess moisture thus conc the flavors
and also tomatoes contain sugar, which will stick on any pan, by this way we can forget it for 2 hour
2 hours later, we need to create new flavors - by carmelization , turn it to 400 and cook for another half hour
Time to grind - do it via a food mill or a blender / food processor


Check the tomatoes after 1 hour and turn down the heat if they seem to be cooking too quickly. Then turn the oven to 400 degrees and bake another 30 minutes.

http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/alton-brown/tomato-sauce.html

Palak Panneer - zee khana - rakesh sethi

In a cooker add 2Tbsp oil and add 2 dried red chilly broken . Once it crackles add 1tsp ginger garlic paste and 2Tbsp finely chopped onion
Saute this until the onion turns a little brown
To this add the dry ingredients
1/4 tsp turmeric
1/2 tsp red chilly powder
1/2 tsp garam masala and Salt to taste. Mix well
To this add 2 chopped tomatoes and mix well

Once the tomatoes are soft add 200 gms shredded palak and 200 gms diced panner and 2Tbsp lemon juice

Close the cooker and

Open and add 1Tbsp ginger julinees and 2tsp cream or malai and serve

Matchstick Potato fries

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/matchstick-potatoes-recipe/index.html