To make great sauce you must have good tomatoes.  Not those artificial, funny coloured, dry, shrivalled excuses for tomatoes that you often see in supermarkets.  Home grown are obviously the best and that's why Kate's Mum makes the best hot sauce.

• Puree tomatoes, onions, capsicum (red and green) and chillies

• The secret ingredients are:  ground cayenne pepper, worcestershire sauce, chilli powder, canning salt, sugar, granulated garlic, corn starch, ground dry mustard, vinegar and a bottle of tomato sauce.

• Now you might ask what quantities.  Well, you'll just have to use your own judgment because Marg just throws in a pinch of this and a handful of that until the smell is just right.

• Cook for hours!

• Bottle and use right throughout the winter months for your spaghetti sauce, BBQ sauce etc.

Best of luck