DINNER - by Mom: Home made pasta sauce w/ spicy italian sausage; and more...

My wife is a brilliant cook and understands how to economize food, think ahead and create tasty tasty meal after meal.

This particular pasta sauce (marinara) is great. There are so many more options how to use this sauce. The recipe here is made for stretching 3 entire meals as a base.

A regular Spaghetti Marinara w/ spicy Italian sausage

A Chicken/Veal Parmesan

A 'Gangster Grub' Italian style meatloaf

The two other recipes will follow soon. We suggest that you eat what you can and freeze 2 x 4 cups of the sauce for later.

Preparation is fast and easy but the cook time takes a while - and the longer the better. If you have a crock pot it will do the work for you during the day.

Ingredients

5 spicy Italian sausages (6 inches each)

1 tbsp course sea salt,

1/4 cup olive oil

2 large sweet onions finely chopped

6 16 oz crushed tomatoes

3 tbs fennel seed

1/4 cup dried basil

1/4 cup parsley

1/4 cup olive oil

1/2 cup store bought minced garlic

1 tbs celery seed

This is how you go about it:

Brown the onion in a large sauce pan with the olive oil and salt.   Once it's light golden, add the sausage to brown.   Then add the garlic and spices.  Stir on low heat for a few minutes until the garlic changes color a little.

Now add the 6 large cans of tomatoes and two cans of water.  Turn up the heat to medium until it comes to a boil.   Stir and turn the heat down to low stirring frequently.

The sauce is best if it cooks for at least 5 hours.

DINNER - by Mom is served!