In article >,
Blair P. Houghton > wrote:

> I wanted some quick pasta with clams and red sauce.
>
> I had the last of a jar of TJ's Rustico in the fridge,
> and a foil-pack of Chicken of the Sea baby clams in
> the pantry.
>
> I seeded and chopped up a roma tomato and half an onion
> to create a little more texture. Sweated the onion,
> tossed in the tomato. Added the clams and simmered off
> the water (I'd strained them well and saved the juice
> and re-strained it through a microfine strainer to remove
> the sand).
>
> I had gemelli in the pasta pot and they're touchy, and
> I was running a little behind on the sauce.
>
> I opened the TJ's jar and looked inside, and there was
> a fuzzy white spot in there. I wiggled it a little, and
> the fuzzy white spot had a gruesome knob of gunk under it.
>
> Oh well. I also had half a can of tomato paste in the
> fridge. Ran to grab it, got it out of its ziploc, looked
> inside. Damn. Big fuzzy white thing growing in there.
> Looked like Einstein's hairdo.

Freeze your leftover tomato paste. Keeps forever, or near enough, and
you can dig some out without thawing.

Isaac