Spaghetti sauce- Crockpot (Anne)
The Crockpot is my best friend...
1 lb sausage meat
2 lb ground beef
1 cup red wine (or vegetable stock if you don't want wine)
1/2 cup water
2 large cans of tomatoes (or 1 large can of tomatoes and 1 jar of a tomato sauce you like)
3 tsp thyme, dried
3 tsp basil, dried
2 tbs ketchup
1 chopped onion
1 cup chopped vegetables (I will explain bellow)
Brown the meats. If you don't you will have a 'nice' layer of fat swimming on top of your sauce.
Add the other ingredients and cook low for 6 hours. Or more... the longer you cook the richer it will taste.
Ok, the veg... I like making my kids wat vegetables at every meal and spaghetti with a side of veg is a hard sell. So I 'hide' as many vegetables as I can in the sauce. This time I used onion, peppers and celery, because that is what I had at home. My favorite things to add to spaghetti sauce though are eggplant and mushrooms. Both are vegetables kids don't usually go for but they are vegetables that take the color and much of the flavor of whatever they are being cooked with. The kids are yet to figure out I often put that on their spaghetti sauce...
1 lb sausage meat
2 lb ground beef
1 cup red wine (or vegetable stock if you don't want wine)
1/2 cup water
2 large cans of tomatoes (or 1 large can of tomatoes and 1 jar of a tomato sauce you like)
3 tsp thyme, dried
3 tsp basil, dried
2 tbs ketchup
1 chopped onion
1 cup chopped vegetables (I will explain bellow)
Brown the meats. If you don't you will have a 'nice' layer of fat swimming on top of your sauce.
Add the other ingredients and cook low for 6 hours. Or more... the longer you cook the richer it will taste.
Ok, the veg... I like making my kids wat vegetables at every meal and spaghetti with a side of veg is a hard sell. So I 'hide' as many vegetables as I can in the sauce. This time I used onion, peppers and celery, because that is what I had at home. My favorite things to add to spaghetti sauce though are eggplant and mushrooms. Both are vegetables kids don't usually go for but they are vegetables that take the color and much of the flavor of whatever they are being cooked with. The kids are yet to figure out I often put that on their spaghetti sauce...
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