Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Cheating the sauce



In a perfect world we don't need much refrigeration. The beer and wine need to be kept chilled, of course, but in a perfect world today's catch is on ice in a cooler and all of the other perishible ingredients came from the market shortly before the meal was prepared.

In the real world, fresh ingredients for a sauce or even a mirepoix might be light on occasion. I know, I know, hard to imagine, but it does happen. On those rare occasions, fortunately there is a pantry ready sauce available to save the day.

More than Gourmet of Akron Ohio offers a classic demi-glace Red Wine Sauce and a velouté White Wine Sauce. Both are ready to heat and serve or you can use them as a base and use the ingredients you do have on hand to make a red wine mushroom sauce or tarragon sauce for fish. See more recipes at www.morethangourmet.com

Both sauces contain Wheat and Milk ingredients.

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If you have read my blogs you know that I often praise of Idylwilde Farms in Acton, MA. Not this time:

Idylwilde Farms: $4.29

Whole Foods: $3.39

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