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Thread #128782   Message #2886031
Posted By: Sorcha
13-Apr-10 - 09:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Your best homemade pasta sauce ?
Subject: RE: BS: Your best homemade pasta sauce ?
ALFREDO!!

Yea, it's not very heart healthy! Butter, cream, parmesan, and a bit of 'cream cheese' if you are an Infidel!

I rather like a good Bolognese too...fry onions and garlic, add chopped (peeled and seeded) tomatoes, basil, oregano, celery seed powder, thyme, maybe rosemary if you have it...simmer....you can smoosh the chopped toms with a potato masher if you like.

Mario is correct...never ever BOIL a tomato sauce, or even simmer it too long. It will go bitter.

At the very end of the simmer time, add a dollop of either butter or olive oil to sweeten it a bit.


Celery seed powder....well, I guess you could use celery 'salt' but I prefer to buy celery seed and grind it to powder in the spice/coffee grinder.