The family jewels

[ghini]

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.

Comments

Woah!

[jerseygirl1.livejournal.com]

The Muffin pans bit is BRILLIANT!!!!

Re: Woah!

[uglor.livejournal.com]

Credit for that one goes to my Aunt Addie. She's got enough frozen food in her freezers to feed about 80.

Re: Woah!

[jerseygirl1.livejournal.com]

*Jerseygirl thinks of the condition of her freezer*

I think it is an Italian trait!!!

Kudos to Aunt Addie... I am going to start doing that... it is a pain to defrost a whole block of sauce for my little bowl of pasta....

[improbable.livejournal.com]

I've seen you make a red sauce with more vegetables, like carrots too. What's that?

[uglor.livejournal.com]

That's the Bolognese sauce. It's similar to this except it has carrots, celery and ground beef.

[lacinyc.livejournal.com]

Don't people disappear for revealing things like that?

[uglor.livejournal.com]

Prometheus Alberghini at your service.