Kitchen

[Brooklynny]

You'd be surprised at how really easy it is to make your own pasta sauces and many other dishes from scratch with fresh ingredients. It's so much healthier...no salt except for what you might add, no preservatives, and no other chemicals that you can't spell or pronounce. Why put that stuff in your body when you don't have to? I'm Italian, too, and I've always made my own pasta sauces, as well as my own pizza and focaccia dough by hand -- now I use my (TSV) KitchenAid stand mixer with the dough hook, and it takes less than 10 minutes total. Just combine flour, salt, yeast, water, and olive oil, and turn on the machine. It does all the work, and I no longer have to knead it either! Let the dough rise for a couple of hours, and fresh homemade pizza is less than a half hour away. It's easier and less time consuming than most people think.

[ECBG]

On 1/31/2015 Boehm Collecter said:

Both my parents were born and raised in Italy. As a result there was never any store bought pasta sauce in the house. Mom always made her own. I have continued the tradition. I make several different kinds of sauces. When I make them I make quite a bit and freeze it. IMHO no store bought pasta sauce is even close to being as good as my homemade sauces. Plus I know exactly what ingredients are in mine.

Would you share your recipe?

[Boehm Collector]

On 1/31/2015 ECBG said:

On 1/31/2015 Boehm Collecter said:

Both my parents were born and raised in Italy. As a result there was never any store bought pasta sauce in the house. Mom always made her own. I have continued the tradition. I make several different kinds of sauces. When I make them I make quite a bit and freeze it. IMHO no store bought pasta sauce is even close to being as good as my homemade sauces. Plus I know exactly what ingredients are in mine.

Would you share your recipe?

I will certainly try ... have to go through my recipes and see which ones include quantities for the ingredients. Give me some time. Like my Mom I usually put a ""little of this and a little of that"". I can do it because I always watched my Mom cook.

[Boehm Collector]

On 1/31/2015 ECBG said:

On 1/31/2015 Boehm Collecter said:

Both my parents were born and raised in Italy. As a result there was never any store bought pasta sauce in the house. Mom always made her own. I have continued the tradition. I make several different kinds of sauces. When I make them I make quite a bit and freeze it. IMHO no store bought pasta sauce is even close to being as good as my homemade sauces. Plus I know exactly what ingredients are in mine.

Would you share your recipe?

Artichoke Sauce

-Olive oil -1 onion chopped -4 cloves of garlic thickly sliced -1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes -4 oz prosciutto thinly sliced -artichokes diced -1/2 cup white wine -1 cup chicken stock -1 cup heavy cream -

1 Cook onion,garlic and red pepper flakes in olive oil. 2 Add prosciutto and artichokes and cook until artichokes are brown.. 3 Add wine. 4 Add stock, cream and pepper and cook until reduced.

Sausage Penne

One tablespoon extra virgin olive oil; one tablespoon butter, four sausages; one cup white wine; 3/4 cup milk; 1/2 cup chicken stock; one teaspoon tomato paste, parmigian; one large onion diced, salt and pepper to taste. Heat oil and butter. Add onion sauté until translucent. Add sausage and cook until brown. Drain excess fat if necessary. Add wine and cook until evaporated. Add milk, tomato paste, stock, salt and pepper to taste.. Reduce. Finish cooking pasta in pan. Add parmigian.