Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Spaghetti Night becomes Pizza Night

  Around here I make home made spaghetti sauce, mainly because is it easy and I don't see a need to buy the premade sauce with all the stuff in it that we might be allergic to or I can't pronounce.  Granted my sauce is different every time, because it is dependent on what is in the house.  It is made in my small crock pot, which helps with the easy part.
The base:
1 can organic tomato sauce
1 can organic tomato paste
1 can organic diced tomatoes (we like a chunky sauce)
half an onion chopped
1 heaping T minced garlic
1 T dried Italian seasoning
pinch of crushed red pepper

Options based on what we have
fresh basil
mushrooms
bell pepper or sweet peppers
Field Roast Italian Sausage
zuchini
nutritional yeast
egg plant

This week's is fairly simple because I have only a bit of bell pepper and basil for extras.

It is usually served with some garlic bread.  Which is whatever bread we have.  This week is obviously special because we have a baguette from the co-op.  I make a mix of garlic and olive oil and spread it on slices and toast it.  Before my no dairy days, we even added a bit of Parmesan.  Maybe I should start using some nutritional yeast, it has replaced the parmesan in all other recipes nicely.  And a side of salad or fruit.  This time it will be fruit, because there was no lettuce in our co-op shares and I don't actually like lettuce enough to buy it if it doesn't come in my shares.

Ah, but the Pizza you ask?  Well, I take the leftover spaghetti sauce and thin it with some more tomato sauce and it is now pizza sauce.  I make a basic bread dough from my Artisan Breads in 5 min a Day cookbook, for my pizza dough, and everyone gets to make their own personal pizzas.  I get some onion, bell pepper, sun dried tomatoes and spinach - no cheese.    And we each get to choose a side of fruit.

Usually the pizza rust would be whole wheat, but I couldn't find my sifter.  And I grind my own wheat in my Vitamix.  I will have to to talk with the girl child about putting things away in their proper place.  It does seem like a lot of bread in my diet.  I wonder if I need to do something about that.

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