Here's how to make my crock pot spaghetti sauce. I'm writing it down in case anyone else wants it, and because I've gotten it right and don't want to forget it
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Om nom nom! I use ground beef and italian sausage in my spaghetti sauce, too. I've been wanting to make it from fresh or canned tomatoes instead of using jarred sauce. Thanks!
If you have good quality sausage, I don't consider this to be "processed" at all. I mean, the tomatoes are canned, but I lived in tomatoland and know that the really ripe ones often get trucked directly from field to cannery.
Muir Glen crushed tomatoes are always in my pantry! I can make a pasta sauce in 30 mins or under (sometimes going neck and neck with the noodles!) with them. (the 30 minute one involves sauteeing an onion and reconstituting dried mushrooms). But letting 'em get acquainted all day in the crock pot is all good!
It's nice because I can even brown the meat the night before and assemble it in the morning, and dinner is mostly done when I get home.
I use the Muir Glen tomatoes too, and I love them. Trader Joe's often have them for super cheap. Sometimes I will go down to the Ferry Building and get Prather Ranch sausage, and that's divine. But even the loose-pack Italian sausage from Whole Foods or the good Safeway is pretty good, too.
I love dried mushrooms. I had a friend in Seattle who was from Switzerland, and her favorite winter pasta sauce was left over pot roast, rosemary, thyme, dried mushrooms and mushroom demi-glace, garlic, and tomato paste, covered with red wine and left on the stove all day. It was to die for.
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Muir Glen crushed tomatoes are always in my pantry! I can make a pasta sauce in 30 mins or under (sometimes going neck and neck with the noodles!) with them. (the 30 minute one involves sauteeing an onion and reconstituting dried mushrooms). But letting 'em get acquainted all day in the crock pot is all good!
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I use the Muir Glen tomatoes too, and I love them. Trader Joe's often have them for super cheap. Sometimes I will go down to the Ferry Building and get Prather Ranch sausage, and that's divine. But even the loose-pack Italian sausage from Whole Foods or the good Safeway is pretty good, too.
I love dried mushrooms. I had a friend in Seattle who was from Switzerland, and her favorite winter pasta sauce was left over pot roast, rosemary, thyme, dried mushrooms and mushroom demi-glace, garlic, and tomato paste, covered with red wine and left on the stove all day. It was to die for.
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