So I just got off the phone with my best friend, the one who laughed about me never making a cookie from scratch. She had her moment to laugh again. I told her I was making pasta sauce FROM SCRATCH!!! She informs me that she always does this and has never used a jarred/canned sauce. Is everyone out there just making EVERYTHING from scratch while I use packaged products?!?!?! I always thought if I poured the sauce into the pan and cooked it - well then I had... cooked it! Apparently I may as well have been ordering in!
Either way I made a delicious sauce tonight and even my picky eater husband loved it! He kept saying 'you should remember this one' and 'we should add sausage next time'. We found ourselves a winner!
Ingredients:
(serves 5)
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 onion, diced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 (14.5 ounce) can Italian-style diced tomatoes, undrained
1 tablespoon dried basil leaves
3/4 teaspoon white sugar
1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon butter
(allrecipes.com)
Directions:
Step 1: Dice up onion and mince up garlic
Step 2: In a saucepan, saute onion and garlic in olive oil over medium heat
Step 3: In mixer, using whisk attachment, mix together tomatoes, basil, sugar, oregano, salt and pepper on level 2 for about 3 minutes
Step 4: Pour mixed blend into saucepan and bring to a boil. Continue to boil for 5 minutes or until most of the liquid is absorbed.
Step 5: In mixer stir cream and butter together on stir setting for 1 minute then removing saucepan from heat add the mix
Step 6: Return to burner, reduce heat and simmer 5 more minutes
Step 7: Serve over pasta
(now this site's recipe did not call for a mixer. However, when I blended the ingredients together I think it made the sauce more smooth and less chunky - which my family prefers)
Tips:
* Mincing garlic is another tedious act I have found. I felt like I was Paul Sorvino in that Goodfellas scene, carefully using a razor blade to mince the garlic 'just so'. After I made this meal and was putting away the leftovers I found a jar of pre-minced garlic. perfect...
* Before making anything I can not express more the importance of checking your cupboards for all ingredients! Before starting this project the only spices/seasonings I had in my house were salt, pepper and some sort of seasoned salt. (Oh and cinnamon! Apparently at some point in my life I purchased about 5 different cinnamon shakers.) Now I am the proud owner of approximately a dozen spices. Dream big!
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