The family jewels

This is the family marinara recipe. It's easy, vegetarian and damn good.

Makes approx 2 quarts:

In a large saucepan combine:

3 cups chopped onion
3 cloves garlic
1/3 cup olive oil

sautee 5 minutes then add

2 28oz cans tomato puree
2 Tb parsley
1 Tb sugar
1 Tb salt
1 tsp oregano
1 tsp basil
1/4 tsp pepper
1 cup water

simmer for 1 hour.

Helpful hint for freezing:

If you have muffin pans, spray them with a tiny bit of non-stick spray.
Fill with sauce.
Freeze.
Pop the frozen pucks of sauce out and put in a freezer bag.
You now have an easy way to portion out frozen sauce.