Method

1. Slice pepper in half and grill for 5-7 minutes until skin begins to char. Set aside to cool while you prepare the other ingredients. Remove skin (most of), seeds etc.. and slice roughly.

2. Add a good splash of olive oil into a pan and heat. Add chopped red onions and cook for 4-5 minutes until the colour becomes translucent. Add garlic and cook for another minute.

3. Add White Wine Vinegar and reduce (< 1 minute)

4. Add Pepper, Thyme and Sugar and stir in for 1/2 minute.

5. Add chopped tomatoes, bay leaf and (3 twists of) salt and pepper. Bring to boil and simmer for 30-35 minutes, stirring occasionally.

6. Remove from heat and remove bay leaf and allow to cool for a few minutes. Liquidise until smooth and allow to cool for 30 minutes.

7. Meanwhile, sterilise glass jars by filling with boiling water and allowing to stand.

8. Add to jars and label for future use. Allow to cool completely, add air-tight(ish) lid and store in the fridge.

Applications

Method

Lasagne Sheets

1. Sift flour into a bowl and make a "volcano" in the middle

2. Break in three eggs, add salt

3. Using spoon or knife mix the ingredients to a rough crumble

4. Use fingers and kneed together until smooth and elastic (10-15 minutes)

5. Wrap in clingfilm and rest for 30-60 minutes

6. Work again and roll on a floured surface, before cutting shapes in a pasta cutter machine.

Lasagne

1. Heat meat, onions, carrots (or other veg) in pan

2. Add pasta sauce

3. Layer sauce, pasta, cheese sauce (time two) and top with cheese

4. Cook until done.

Taste?

• The pasta tasted delicious, really delicate with the cheese sauce

• The meat sauce had been diluted with half a tin of tomatoes, rendering the taste almost invisible, although overall the dish worked.

Method

1. Mix 500mg flour, 500ml water, yeast and salt in a big bowl and stir, initially with a spoon and finishing with fingers to bring in flour from the edges of the bowl. Result is still sticky.

2. Leave to rest in bowl, covered with a towel for 9 hours

3. Still sticky. Use the rest of the flour while working the dough

4. Cut into four piece. Can be stored.

Pizza

1. Roll dough out on grease-proof paper into circle

2. Add passatta (sauce above), grated cheese and pepperoni and cook for 20 minutes

Taste

1. Like pizza :)

2. Sauce has a nice spice to it

3. Didn't coat the dough in olive oil before cooking resulting in a slightly anaemic look to the crust. AJ said it tasted a bit doughy; HT said he liked that.

Taste:

Best of the three. Nice pizza base and interesting topping variation.