Do you make your own spaghetti sauce?

[CRB#33]

My ex hated tomatoes and cheese, so we never even had Italian food.

I'm now married to an Italian and he is teaching me to cook more than just meat and potatoes, LOL.

Boy does the house smell good!!

MMMMMmmmmmm. Homemade sauce has the best smell too.

I love when I go out and someone says to me..."Did you make sauce today? You smell great!."

LOL, they should bottle it!

 

[Tiggeroo]

Yep I make my own sauce most of the time. And my kids gripe cause they'd rather have ragu from the jar.

 

[MAC3]

My Mother does, I however didn't inherit that trait. She's a great cook. Ragu is about all I have time for during the week.

 

[CamColt]

Yep, Im the Italian cook in the family. However if Im making something quick like raviolis or American chop suey, and I dont have any frozen, I will use Prego. But anytime Im making a real meal, its got to be my own sauce.

 

[Harley Chick]

Always. I make a huge batch and freeze it in single serving sizes. There's nothing like it.

 

[coliebird]

Yes, I grew up eating homemade sauce (which we actually called gravy) so I cannot bring myself to eat it from a jar. I make a big batch on a weekend and freeze it so it's there when I need it.

 

[HoneyPooh]

Not if I can get my MIL to make it, her's is waaaayyyy better than mine, yummy

 

[tkyes]

I realize this isn't the recipe board, but can I ask how you all make yours?

I would think it would be a complicated thing - is it?


Tamie

 

[MickeysMommy]

Tamie and I are on the same page ~ I was just going to ask if I could have recipes? I sort of like to cook but have never tried my own sauce? How do I make it?

 

[olena]

That's one of the first things my mother taught me to make....and we're not Italian. I have varied my recipe over the years. My FIL LOVES my sauce. It's a shame though, since Chris is so anti-spaghetti. I only get to make sauce once a year now...

 

[CamColt]

I dont do exact meausures but, here goes...

Cook up oil & chopped garlic(dont burn it), then add 2 large cans of Pastene Kitchen Ready tomatoes, 1 large can Hunts Tomato Sauce,and either 1 large, 2 medium , or 4 small cans of Hunts Tomato Paste. Mix together and add in water, basil & oregano. Then a little sugar and Pecorino Romano Cheese. Then I add in my meatballs which I had already fried up(1 lb beef, 1 cup Italian bread crumbs, 3/4 cup pecorino romano, 1 or 2 eggs...mix, fry in oil). Once it bubbles a little(while stirring), I let it simmer for about 4 hours over a low heat stirring occasionaly.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I don't, but Marie does, and it is GOOD!!!!! But no pasta for me now, LOL.

 

[Lanshark]

I'm Italian and Greek. I have always made my own sause. I even make my own Italian sausage

Saute some onion in olive oil
Saute some garlic

2 - 3 cans Pour in some Hunts/Contadina tomato sauce
1 can tomato paste ans water
Add Italian seasoning (easier)
Add Pecorino Romano cheese (lots)

Add cooked and drained italian sausage or hamburger. On an ambitious day make meatballs

 

[Evil Princess]

In my family it's not sauce, its gravy (but personally, I say either), and theres no pasta, its MACARONI

My grandmother and my father make the sauce from scratch. It's practically a day long process. She fries every piece of meat before she puts it in the pot. Crazyyyy. I hope someday to learn how to make it.

I have never had tomato sauce from a bottle once in my life. I think it's gross. If I eat Italian, I never order anything with meat sauce. It doesn't taste like Grandmas I always get penne alla vodka or something.

I have macaroni at least 3 times a week. Sunday is the given day, of course. We have enough of it frozen in our freezer to last us a lifetime, lol.

 

[~Sparkly~Zoe]

I can tomato puree, 1 large can tomato paste, 1 can tomato sauce.

I also get a large meyan sweet or vidalia onion (I just cut the onion in half and then take it out after it's all cooked), parmesian & romano cheese, sweet basil leaves, crushed oregano, garlic powder, 1 tbls sugar, and mix it all together (I add no special amounts of these except for the sugar which is only added to get rid of the acid) I just put the stuff in my palm and then add to sauce.

I also make meatballs with a mixture of ground beef, ground veal and ground pork. In the meatballs I add the same sprices except for the sweet basil. Also I use an egg to keep the meat together.

I make the "balls" and drop in the sauce and cook on simmer for most of the afternoon or in a crock pot.

 

[Megan's Mom]

If I have all day to simmer the sauce I make it from scratch. My DH will only eat Hunts tomatoes so I use large can of crushed tom. 1 large can of tom sauce, 1 med can of tom paste. Added to the browned ground beef, bell peppers and onion. Then you just season as you like with parsley, salt and pepper, Italian seasonings thyme, rosemary, bay leaves, oregino and chilli powder. As it cooks every couple of hours I add to the spices until they have cooked into the sauce well. The thing that makes it really good is having all day to cook

 

[Minnesota!]

I have my dad's recipe, which is tomato sauce, paste, sugar, pepperoni, spices, and such. Then the meatballs. Then I have my weekday version, which is brown up hamburger, drain. Add 1 jar of ANY sauce to it. Simmer. Add spices, parmesan, etc. Simmer for about 20 minutes. No where near as good as home made, but doctoring up the jar stuff makes it more palatable.

 

[Gette88]

I make my own sauce. Growing up my mom used jar sauce but in the 14 years I've been married I've never used jar sauce.

 

[Boo'sMom]

That's what is in my crock pot right now!

 

[chell]

Usually I make my own. I add fresh Polish sausage to mine. YUMMY!