Showing posts with label meat sauce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meat sauce. Show all posts

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Meat Sauce for Freezing

Homemade spaghetti meat sauce with a little cheating. I sauteed two medium diced onions and an entire head of garlic - I ran each clove through a garlic press. I let everything get a little brown.

I added hamburger and mild Italian sausage. As the meat browned, I broke it up with a potato masher.

Here it is ready for the sauce. This part can be done several different ways. I added two cans of crushed tomatoes, a can of diced tomatoes and a jar of Barilla tomato and basil sauce. I didn't have any plain tomato sauce in my pantry. I also diced up a couple of tomatoes that were getting a little too ripe, and plopped those in.

I let it all simmer for a couple of hours and then tasted it. I added some dried basil and oregano and garlic powder, and a few whole cloves of garlic. I let this all simmer all day.

I served some up for dinner with spaghetti noodles, and put the rest in freezer bags to use on nights when I don't have time to make dinner.