"Sacha" wrote in message
"FarmI"
ask@itshall be given wrote:

My husband said he'd seen a soup recipe in there for Tomato and something
or
other soup, but that it had no tomatoes in it so he thought they'd made a
mistake and meant 3 tomatoes rather than 3 onions. When I read it, the
recipe used 2 cans of marinara mix.


Hmmm, I don't much like cooking but I *really* don't like cooking that
way.
I happily use canned tomatoes but not without a slight feeling that I'm
cheating.

I love cooking but I too feel that vague guilt about tomatoes in a can. :-))

I'm always a little surprised at US recipes that call for cheese
and it turns out to be Kraft slices or that stuff in a tube. That said,
I've eaten some wonderful meals in USA in both posh and average
restaurants
and in friends' houses, so it can't be totally 'instant cuisine'
everywhere.

No, just the blasted mags I accidently pick up. I'd thought I was buying
the Brisith Country Living and somehow got the US one. :-(((

Perhaps they have yet to go through the Fray Bentos steak & kidney pie in
a
tin stage in some ways! And Vesta curries and Surprise peas - we're not
guiltless here, though they do seem to have faded into the background!

None of our country's do when it comes to the supermarket shelves but in a
mag which has some pretensions???????