I Am Bismark

To kick off my attempts at becoming a better cook, I decided to stick with something simple: a four ingredient tomato-butter sauce. Amazingly, I actually pulled it off at it tasted great. Here are a few pics:

Yes, silly me, I used can tomatoes. We even had a bag of fresh, bright red tomatoes in our fridge; I was just too much of a wimp to try peeling them myself. One step at a time I suppose.

Squishy balls of red goop.

Like I said, squishy. Crushing them was just as fun as Neven claimed.

Yeah, this wasn’t exactly “healthy”, but hey, everyone needs to live a little.

So here are all the ingredients (tomato, butter, onion, salt) together in the pot. I was actually surprised how little salt I needed to add, though I am sure the fact that the butter was salted made a big difference.

This is the sauce reduced after about 40 minutes of simmering and occasional stirring. It was amazing how flavorful it became without any extra ingredients. We took the onion out and I actually ate half of it as part of dinner. It was really tender and sweet.

And here is the final product. Both Mariam and I really liked how it turned out and I plan on making this sauce again in the future (next time with fresh tomatoes and maybe a few herbs for variety). Yum!