Want my amaaaazing pasta/pizza sauce recipe? Of course you do. I invented it last week. This makes one 5 Quart crock pot full...which is 3-4 3 cup jars. Which each make one good 2 person meal...so this recipe would serve...8-10 if you just ate it fresh.
Roast 4 or 5 sweet bell peppers. Just throw them in the BBQ until they're all charred, then throw them in a bag for a bit to steam. The skins will just flake off leaving yumminess beneath. Deseed and mince
Mince:
4 cloves garlic
4 smallish shallots
Fry in olive oil with a sprinkle of red pepper flakes.
Add a splash of cooking wine at the end (white wine is yummy in it)
Throw in the crock pot with the peppers and about 1/4 wine.
Mince a 1/2 cup or more fresh basil and oregano. You can use dried, but only use a tablespoon or so.
Blanch and peel tomatoes. fill the crock pot with diced tomatoes.
Salt to taste.
Let it simmer for a few hours, we leave it overnight to the next afternoon.
If it's still soupy add a couple small cans of tomato paste halfway through.
Enjoy!
I am doing my second and third crock pots today.
Also I got my amazon order! Hooray! I got a bunch of novels but I am really excited about these two books:
Little Stitches for Little Ones by Amy Butler, has some great sewing projects for babies. Considering the amount of babies in my life it seemed wise.
Printing by Hand by Lena Corwin is a great modern resource for handprinting, it covers stenciling, stamping and silk screening. My mind is buzzing with the possibilities!
Well, gotta go, I've got beets to pickle with Gramma :)
