Bolognaise homemade sauce or ready made??

Have you tried roasting tomatoes before you make the sauce? It concentrates the flavour and makes it even yummier. If I have time, I do this as I pick toms for the freezer but have found that if I freeze small toms whole, you can roast them from frozen.

Mind you with blight the last 2 years home grown toms have been in short supply :roll:

I use cans, but I prefer fresh toms when I have them! All the rest is home made, I can't stand jars of sauces when I can so easily make my own, but that is just my personal preference

I freeze as many of our own grown toms as I can.  Just cut them up a bit and weigh them in 2lb bags.  So I use them through the years until I run out, then go on to cans of toms.  I never buy a ready made sauce anymore they are generally c**p!!!

Nothing like making your own!  Once when I was staying at my daughter's in Kent, I made her boyfriend some burgers.  The girl next door said oh he will love them.  How do you make them?  With minced meat. I replied!!!!  Anyway, I told her I genealy put a little cooked and cooled onion inthem and a few breadcrumbs and egg to bing them as he likes them like that, and she said she'll have a go, but it amazes me how many people just can't be bothered!  I bought my daughter a little hamburger press so she could start making her own with a nice round shape, but I don't think she ever used it!!!

I agree with you sheila, they took so many things away from the schools, like cooking etc, but alo sold off all the sports fields for new houses to be built, and now the government are moanng because our children are obese.  If there was more sports in schools, insted of being something extra at the end of the day, then perhaps there wouldn't be so many overweight children? And if their parents had been taught to cook at school, they wouldn't be eating so much c**ppy stuff now!!

My Dad gave me my love of baking, but my Mum wasn't a brilliant cook.  If she made a stew monday with sunday's leftover meat, she would stew the bones and meat in water, then thicken that up (after removing bones of course!!) with pease pudding, then she'd add several tins of heinz soups!!! so until I left school, and started going out a bit, I thought that's what a stew was!!!!   

She so mistrusted butchers that she washed all her meat and sausages and bacon before cooking, which was okay, until she washed the mince!!!!  Shepherd's pie was always a bit bland!!!!!!  Poor old Mum, but she did work hard.  full time job, 2 kids, hubby and had to come home late at night sometimes to  do the housework, as me and my big bro never did much to help.  I was always nose deep in a book or comic!