Ahira's Hangar

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I fill a saucepan 3/4 with vegetable stock, heat it slowly, add good dollop of tomato sauce (proper tomato sauce that is, not some flourescent fake stuff), a splash of balsamic vinegar and olive oil, salt, basil, pepper, tablespoon of mustard, same of mint sauce, stirring all the while.

Then mix 2 or 3 teaspoons of a caramel-based thickening agent (this has no "caramel" flavour really though) and a teaspoon of cornflour into a paste, and add once the stuff in the pan is pretty hot (not boiling though) and stir careful until it thickens. Once thickened, I add a tablespoon of sugar, then stir in red wine until it's a good consistency, and pour in the juices of whatever meat I'm cooking. (Ingredients may vary a little, depending on what's in the house and what mood I'm in.)

Whoops, I forgot to mention the tablespoon of sugar.

--A

Haha, never occurred to me to edit it in.

Will do.

--A