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Default Oops, that's not tomatoe paste

blake murphy wrote:

> >Lately I have been getting tubes of tomato past at the German deli. It
> >works
> >out well when making dishes that call for a small amount of the stuff and
> >you don't have to open a whole can for one spoonful of paste, and it keeps
> >well. We had been getting low on the stuff so the next time I was at the
> >deli I grabbed another tube of it. I should have read the label more
> >carefully, though it is in Hungarian <?>. Last night my wife made a batch
> >of stew for tonight's dinner and added what we thought was tomato paste. It
> >wasn't. It is a spicy pepper paste. So the stew is going to taste a little
> >nippier than we are used to.

>
> you might like it that way. i usually put a dried red pepper and a
> few slices of ginger in my stew for just that purpose.


I did like it. It was delicious.