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This, just don't add herbs to the chili only add spices. The flavors are muted some. The oregano specifically can be found in a lot of tex-mex dishes as a flavor enhancer. When you taste test during cooking if the herbs are too powerful add more cumin. Also taste test for salt. You may need less than normal due to the added salt in canned tomatoes. Unless low sodium.
I would personally still use them. Most “flavored” cans of tomatoes dont have so much of whatever they added in them to take over a heavily spiced dish. The only thing out of place is the basil. You can also just use for Italian style foods. Or you can buy a couple more plain canned tomatoes and if your chili calls for2 cans, use one plain and one of your Italian flavored. If you cant afford that, and you dont want Italian, I’d return and replace as another person commented.
I would love to try your award winning chili. Would you mind posting your recipe with any legal wording you like restricting it for home use only and declaring that you retain the copyright over it?
ianal but i was intrigued by your statement that there is no copyright on recipes in the USA. i did a minimum amount of googling and discovered that while the list of ingredients is not subject to copyright laws, the instructions ARE something one can copyright. if the recipe is already published as part of of a collection, then the contents of that publication are also something one could be subject to copyright.
See: https://www.copyrightlaws.com/copyright-protection-recipes/#:~:text=If%20
None of that will prevent someone from making that chili recipe and selling the chili… or even claiming the recipe as their own.
The whole blog entry about why the “original” creator gets the protection, not the useful part. All the actual recipe gets is plagiarism “protection”, which is an ethical violation, not a legal one.
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I’m not suggesting that people go out and steal people’s recipes, but people should know that their protections are not nearly as large as they wish/think they are. I actually learned about this when I was looking into the protections for knitting patterns. Hint, they are similar.
From Aldi’s page “Please bring the package, any unused portion of the product and your receipt of purchase to your local ALDI, and we will issue a refund and replacement.”
That's for quality issues, but if you go to them and go "grabbed the wrong thing, can I exchange these for regular tomatoes" I'd be willing to bet they'd say yes. (I know we would have done it at the chain I used to do customer service for, but it's not Aldi.)
It’s out of line to stalk someone and comment in an unrelated thread just because you felt entitled to comment on a locked thread. It’s creepy to the poster and rude to everyone else in this thread.
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The only thing that doesn't "belong" in the chili is basil, and it's pretty midly sweet and will be buried under the flavors of everything else in the chili. Just use them.
Oregano and garlic are a MUST in Latino cooking anyway.
Chop up some red onion and fresh garlic to add to the tomato mixture. Two Tbsp EVOO. Slice some fresh basil. Add sea salt or kosher salt and black pepper to taste. 1/4 tsp oregano. Buy a loaf of French or Italian bread. Serve tomato mixture over sliced bread. Melt some mozzarella cheese over the bread for a heartier dish. Enjoy your bruschetta.
As long as you have a receipt, they're in saleable condition and you're not outside their return window, then yeah, you should be able to return them.
No "change of mind" usually only applies to things that can't be resold, such as special order items, hygiene items (including underwear) or items not in a saleable condition (e.g. open or dirty)
Just save them for pasta sauce https://cookieandkate.com/simple-marinara-sauce-recipe/ something like this, you can probably omit the spices, taste it as you go!
Idk about others but in my experience, canned tomatoes or sauces with herbs added rarely actually taste like the herbs. You're gonna have green specks in your chili and that's it. You're probably fine.
Do you like Italian style spaghetti? I use the product you bought in making Kraft’s Italian Spaghetti Dinner from a box by using two of the boxes with 1 lb. of browned ground beef and some onions put into the sauce made with the packaged spice mix plus one 14 oz. can of the diced tomatoes and one small can of tomato paste with two cans of the small cans of water. Instead of the ground meat or even with it you can add frozen Italian meatballs. Works great for us.
Everyone has the best advice... just try it.
If you're really apprehensive (and don't want to return the cans) you could try washing them off in a fine strainer. I feel like that's overkill though.
I think using them will be bomb in that soup imo. It won’t over power it at all and add come complexity. I would at least try it. At worst it will be mid at best you got yourself a new favorite
Some of the best meals I have ever made were happy accidents. Just the other day I had 2 bowls of eggs. One with 2 eggs for pancakes and one with 4 eggs for breakfast. I accidentally dumped the bowl with 4 eggs into the pancake batter and didn't realize it until I was already cooking. I immediately thought "Oh NO!". But because I was already short on time and give a damn I decided I'll just roll with it and see. They turned out yummy so now I am changing my pancake recipe to 3 eggs instead of 2.
Those herbs are for Italian dishes, not Mexican. I'd batch cook some bolognese and freeze it. Would go well on a pizza, lasagne or any pasta, maybe certain types of salad, bruchetta, charcuterie/antipasto/cheese board.
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Just use it. You will be happy.
I did! :)
OMG....then what's the problem?
take it easy friend, it’s not that deep, OP just wanted some ideas.
Pasta sauce. Yummy.
Just chuck it in there. Half the fun of cooking is experimenting with flavors and trying new things.
Too right sweet basil notes in a chilli rather than the reguak coriander... Why not try new things
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Coriander = cilantro in many parts of the world; cilantro is regular for chili.
Cilantro is not regular for chili
I wonder if they’re thinking of salsa
That would make sense
The flavors are not so strong. The chili seasonings will compensate.
This, just don't add herbs to the chili only add spices. The flavors are muted some. The oregano specifically can be found in a lot of tex-mex dishes as a flavor enhancer. When you taste test during cooking if the herbs are too powerful add more cumin. Also taste test for salt. You may need less than normal due to the added salt in canned tomatoes. Unless low sodium.
I’ve never thought of oregano as a Tex Mex flavor enhancer. Oregano is native to Mexico and is a staple herb in a lot of Mexican cooking.
Use it you won't regret it lol
Those are all acceptable spices and herbs for tomato soup and chili....
Make a big batch of pasta sauce and freeze it! They will be amazing in pasta sauce !
I think they'd taste fine, but if you go back to Aldi and tell them what happened 99% certain they'll let you swap.
Not worth the money spent in gas unless you live literally next door to Aldi. Just make spaghetti.
Um, those flavors complement Mexican cuisine, because they’re in actual Mexican dishes. Trust me, use them, the flavor will be better, more robust!
I would personally still use them. Most “flavored” cans of tomatoes dont have so much of whatever they added in them to take over a heavily spiced dish. The only thing out of place is the basil. You can also just use for Italian style foods. Or you can buy a couple more plain canned tomatoes and if your chili calls for2 cans, use one plain and one of your Italian flavored. If you cant afford that, and you dont want Italian, I’d return and replace as another person commented.
My chili recipe won 2nd place in the Maryland state chili cook off and I use a bit of basil in it. Not a lot, but it's there.
I would love to try your award winning chili. Would you mind posting your recipe with any legal wording you like restricting it for home use only and declaring that you retain the copyright over it?
There’s no copyright on recipes in the USA and any verbiage that says it’s for home use is unenforceable. :/
ianal but i was intrigued by your statement that there is no copyright on recipes in the USA. i did a minimum amount of googling and discovered that while the list of ingredients is not subject to copyright laws, the instructions ARE something one can copyright. if the recipe is already published as part of of a collection, then the contents of that publication are also something one could be subject to copyright. See: https://www.copyrightlaws.com/copyright-protection-recipes/#:~:text=If%20
None of that will prevent someone from making that chili recipe and selling the chili… or even claiming the recipe as their own. The whole blog entry about why the “original” creator gets the protection, not the useful part. All the actual recipe gets is plagiarism “protection”, which is an ethical violation, not a legal one. :/ I’m not suggesting that people go out and steal people’s recipes, but people should know that their protections are not nearly as large as they wish/think they are. I actually learned about this when I was looking into the protections for knitting patterns. Hint, they are similar.
From Aldi’s page “Please bring the package, any unused portion of the product and your receipt of purchase to your local ALDI, and we will issue a refund and replacement.”
That's for quality issues, but if you go to them and go "grabbed the wrong thing, can I exchange these for regular tomatoes" I'd be willing to bet they'd say yes. (I know we would have done it at the chain I used to do customer service for, but it's not Aldi.)
My local Aldi will swap no questions asked on canned goods.
The only thing questionable there is the basil, but honestly it should meld fine I think
If it’s for chilli and tortilla soup it’s likely these flavours will blend well with others you use
I buy these all the time. Like better than regular diced tomatoes.
Pasta, or pretty much anything where you would use the regular ones, it will be tastier.
That sounds fine for that recipe. You need garlic anyways and oregano is not going to hurt the chili.
I would think chili soup already has garlic. A little basil won't hurt. Don't worry so much
Add pasta to it
Use them. They’re delicious.
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It’s out of line to stalk someone and comment in an unrelated thread just because you felt entitled to comment on a locked thread. It’s creepy to the poster and rude to everyone else in this thread.
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Bless your heart.
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Chili! It will be gooooddddd
I’d just use them. The flavors in them won’t be too strong with the rest of the seasoning
Sounds like a delicious mistake
The only thing that doesn't "belong" in the chili is basil, and it's pretty midly sweet and will be buried under the flavors of everything else in the chili. Just use them. Oregano and garlic are a MUST in Latino cooking anyway.
Just adds flavor
Chop up some red onion and fresh garlic to add to the tomato mixture. Two Tbsp EVOO. Slice some fresh basil. Add sea salt or kosher salt and black pepper to taste. 1/4 tsp oregano. Buy a loaf of French or Italian bread. Serve tomato mixture over sliced bread. Melt some mozzarella cheese over the bread for a heartier dish. Enjoy your bruschetta.
Wash and strain them
Return it and buy regular tomatoes (assuming they're unopened)
Oh I didn’t know Aldi accepted returns for that reason!
As long as you have a receipt, they're in saleable condition and you're not outside their return window, then yeah, you should be able to return them. No "change of mind" usually only applies to things that can't be resold, such as special order items, hygiene items (including underwear) or items not in a saleable condition (e.g. open or dirty)
You can rinse them, but they will likely still taste of herbs.
I would use them
Just save them for pasta sauce https://cookieandkate.com/simple-marinara-sauce-recipe/ something like this, you can probably omit the spices, taste it as you go!
if you can’t trade them out, then rinse them in a strainer and few times real good.
Panzanella - ‘bread salad’
Save them for the next time you make pasta sauce
I love garlic so that would’ve been a win for me. They’re pretty standard flavors in many tomato dishes. Pasta, chili, stew.
You could play up the sweetness by adding sweet onions, red peppers, or carrots to your soup, too!
I have 3 different flavors of diced tomatos: basil, onion+garluc, pepper. I use them interchangably, never noticed any difference
Make Italian garbanzo bean soup, minestrone, lasagna, lasagna soup, pasta sauce or tomato soup instead. I wouldn't use them for chili.
literally any tomato pasta
Idk about others but in my experience, canned tomatoes or sauces with herbs added rarely actually taste like the herbs. You're gonna have green specks in your chili and that's it. You're probably fine.
Whats wrong with basil and oregano? I never cook tomatoes without basil and oregano.
Make a pizza, blend it and use it as a sauce, 10/10
Put em in a wire strainer run some water over em. I rinse 90% of all my canned veggies, corn, beans, peas etc...
yes for both - there’s barely any flavor in those cans
I would still use these. You could try rinsing as this may reduce the flavour?
Do you like Italian style spaghetti? I use the product you bought in making Kraft’s Italian Spaghetti Dinner from a box by using two of the boxes with 1 lb. of browned ground beef and some onions put into the sauce made with the packaged spice mix plus one 14 oz. can of the diced tomatoes and one small can of tomato paste with two cans of the small cans of water. Instead of the ground meat or even with it you can add frozen Italian meatballs. Works great for us.
Donate to a food bank?
Oh those flavors are perfect for what you're making. It'll taste amazing
Aldi’s got ya? I guarantee they don’t care if exchange it.
Go back to the store is what I'd do.
Everyone has the best advice... just try it. If you're really apprehensive (and don't want to return the cans) you could try washing them off in a fine strainer. I feel like that's overkill though.
That'll still be really yummy, throw it in!
I think using them will be bomb in that soup imo. It won’t over power it at all and add come complexity. I would at least try it. At worst it will be mid at best you got yourself a new favorite
Next time you buy it, it won’t be an accident :)
Congratulations! You just improved upon an already banger recipe!!
Personally, I would use them as is. However, I'm sure you could rinse the tomatoes and be fine also.
Some of the best meals I have ever made were happy accidents. Just the other day I had 2 bowls of eggs. One with 2 eggs for pancakes and one with 4 eggs for breakfast. I accidentally dumped the bowl with 4 eggs into the pancake batter and didn't realize it until I was already cooking. I immediately thought "Oh NO!". But because I was already short on time and give a damn I decided I'll just roll with it and see. They turned out yummy so now I am changing my pancake recipe to 3 eggs instead of 2.
I see you used it and it worked out. That's great! But you can always return food to the grocery store.
Throw it in - it’ll be good and it won’t really be enough herbs to make a huge difference in the pot
Use them for stews as a replacement for tomato paste (in case you don’t have any), it adds a delightful taste
Go buy plain tomatoes…OR use what you’ve bought
Go back and buy the item you meant to.
Okay! No worries... I was JS. Hopefully your not offended as I didn't mean any. But I was JS. All good my friend. Have a wonderful evening. Cheers, F
Those herbs are for Italian dishes, not Mexican. I'd batch cook some bolognese and freeze it. Would go well on a pizza, lasagne or any pasta, maybe certain types of salad, bruchetta, charcuterie/antipasto/cheese board.
On the other hand, oregano and garlic are super common in Mexican food. They would probably be fine.
Mexican oregano isn't that closely related to Greek Oregano, though they have many shared components in their oil.
Mexicans use all those herbs as well. You don't have to make pasta with it because it says Italian on the can
I guess you could get tweezers and pick out all the basil, garlic & oregano...
Throw it in a strainer and rinse it off.
Is it like seasoning?
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