I love to cook... and obviously love to eat! Some of the best things you can do to enhance the flavor and appeal of some basic meals is seasoning. For example, marinade steak in some red wine and garlic for 1/2 hour before cooking... if you want to make pasta, use a high quality sauce (like Newman's or Five Brothers) and add a little red wine and basil to enhance the flavor. Cooking is easy and sometimes the simplest touches can enhance flavor tremendously! Also, get to know a crock pot really well... it's a busy person's best friend.
oh OH! that just HURT to read! "use a high quality sauce (like Newman's or Five Brothers)" what happend to making your OWN sauce? Jar sauce?!?! thats like sacrelige in my house. haha
thats right using fake sauce, burn him at the stake i say!
yea seriously i was about to say the same thing, and you call yourself italian... i shun you!!!!!
i think i've had jar sauce maybe once in my life...
Um.. I DO make my own sauce, as Katie, Mike and a few others can testify... but I don't want to overwhelm the girl by giving her a sauce recipe. BUT, if you must know, I make it in a crock pot, 2 cans tomato puree (usually Pope brand tomatoes), 1 can crushed tomatoes, 1 can paste, a few handfuls of fresh basil, plenty of fresh garlic, some romano cheese, red wine, salt and pepper and olive oil. I cook it for AT LEAST 2 days.
OH MY WORD?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!? HIGH QUALITY SAUCE FROM A JAR?! you want to die dont you? i can hear them coming from a far... all the italian grandmothers plotting against you. Dave im gonna cook you some real sauce... good lord.... >:-/