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  • Spaghetti sauce today

    From Cindy Hamilton@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 3 16:15:37 2024
    He's making a big batch of red sauce, ably assisted by me. Here's
    a loose recipe:

    Brown some hot Italian sausages.
    In the sausage grease, cook diced onion and then garlic. (If you
    need the space, remove the sausages and put them back in the pot
    after the onions are done.) If there isn't enough grease, add some
    olive oil.
    Add six 28-ounce cans of tomato sauce, 18 ounces of tomato paste,
    some wine, and some water. If you wish, you can brown the tomato
    paste before adding the sauce.
    Add minced parsley, oregano, basil (I've stopped arguing about
    putting the basil in so soon), salt, pepper, and red chili flakes.
    Simmer for several hours until thickened.
    At this point, the sausages have given their all to the sauce, and
    their texture is terrible. Discard them.

    Lately, we've been using Black Box Cabernet Sauvignon. Previously,
    we used white zinfandel.

    In aid of this effort, I brought up from the basement the remains
    of last year's garlic crop, went through it, and discarded anything
    that was soft. We ended up using three small (about 1-1.25 inch
    diameter) heads of garlic in the sauce.

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    Cindy Hamilton

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  • From songbird@21:1/5 to Cindy Hamilton on Sun Mar 3 13:00:58 2024
    Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    ...
    In aid of this effort, I brought up from the basement the remains
    of last year's garlic crop, went through it, and discarded anything
    that was soft. We ended up using three small (about 1-1.25 inch
    diameter) heads of garlic in the sauce.

    fresh garlic is worth having (and growing if you have
    space for it).

    i have a lot of last year's crop still sitting here
    waiting for me to go through it, but realistically i
    should take it out and bury it all deeply in a garden
    and save myself a lot of useless work. almost all of
    it is not worth using (last year was not a good garlic
    year). :( first time in 20 years so i'm hoping it
    was just a bad break and all will be ok this year.


    songbird

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