I start a new class today and am making a Marinara and also a Bolognese Sauce with my students and realized that I didn't have them on their own on the web site!
SO here is a wonderful simple recipe for Marinara sauce in which I threw in some fresh rosemary sprigs from our garden... perfect for an easy quick meal!
Ingredients
2 medium cans of diced tomatoes
1 small can of tomato paste
1 onion finely diced
5 cloves of minced garlic
3 fresh spriggs of rosemary
olive oil
Italian seasoning
1/2 cup red wine (what ever you would drink, preferable a dry red, not sweet)
Sea Salt
Fresh cracked pepper
fresh or dried basil
Shredded Parmesan Cheese
Prepare
*In a medium sized pot add a splash of olive oil and dab of butter... add your onion and garlic, cook until soft over medium heat
* Add your diced tomatoes and tomato paste, stir
* Add your wine and stir
* Add your fresh rosemary, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper
* Turn heat down to simmer and cook until the Pasta is ready
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Wednesday
Do I have a treat for you all!
Living in Europe as long as I did I have to admit that a love for wine was instilled in me quite deeply.
I love a nice glass with a meal, and am always delighted to be taught which wine compliments dishes. The right wine addition to a dish brings all the flavors out with a surprising amount of intensity.
I know that many of my readers may not drink wine, but for those of you that do, I am hoping you will be as excited as I with this next addition to Gourmet Cooking On a Dime.
Very dear old friends of mine are also foodies and are also passionate about wine. They own a wine importation company and have graciously given me there recommendations to many of the dishes on this sight. I hope these suggestions are helpful and will happily add to your knowledge and understanding of wines.
The dishes that have wine suggestions are:
*Salmon and Leek Pie
*Deluxe Bagel
*Nachos
*Goat Cheese, Leek and Pancetta Tartlets
*Mini/ Bite Sized Cheesecakes
*White and Chocolate Chip Cookies
*Cranberry Upside Down Cake
*Flat Bread Pizza and Rocket Salad
*Weekend Roast
*Chicken Afritada
*Chicken Adobo
*Fresh Fettucine with Sausage, Asparagus, Spinach and Crumbled Goat Cheese
*Angel Hair Pasta with Chicken, Pine Nuts, Artichokes and Sundried Tomato
*Matthews Meatballs
*Manicotti with Rosemary infused Marinara Sauce
*Rice Ball Parmesean
*Spinach and Ricotta Ravioli with Pesto
Have a look in your stores for these or feel free to check out my friends web sight, the link is below.
Thanks to Paul and Kelley!
http://www.theaustrianwines.com/darcy_and_huber_selections/intro.html
I love a nice glass with a meal, and am always delighted to be taught which wine compliments dishes. The right wine addition to a dish brings all the flavors out with a surprising amount of intensity.
I know that many of my readers may not drink wine, but for those of you that do, I am hoping you will be as excited as I with this next addition to Gourmet Cooking On a Dime.
Very dear old friends of mine are also foodies and are also passionate about wine. They own a wine importation company and have graciously given me there recommendations to many of the dishes on this sight. I hope these suggestions are helpful and will happily add to your knowledge and understanding of wines.
The dishes that have wine suggestions are:
*Salmon and Leek Pie
*Deluxe Bagel
*Nachos
*Goat Cheese, Leek and Pancetta Tartlets
*Mini/ Bite Sized Cheesecakes
*White and Chocolate Chip Cookies
*Cranberry Upside Down Cake
*Flat Bread Pizza and Rocket Salad
*Weekend Roast
*Chicken Afritada
*Chicken Adobo
*Fresh Fettucine with Sausage, Asparagus, Spinach and Crumbled Goat Cheese
*Angel Hair Pasta with Chicken, Pine Nuts, Artichokes and Sundried Tomato
*Matthews Meatballs
*Manicotti with Rosemary infused Marinara Sauce
*Rice Ball Parmesean
*Spinach and Ricotta Ravioli with Pesto
Have a look in your stores for these or feel free to check out my friends web sight, the link is below.
Thanks to Paul and Kelley!
http://www.theaustrianwines.com/darcy_and_huber_selections/intro.html
Thursday
Fresh Bread
While we lived in England, my dear friend Hester was the inspiration for SO many of the things I now cook. She made it all look effortless. But the thing I love the most about Hester is she does everything with this inner Joy. She doesn't begrudgingly make lovely food for her family and friends, she does it with a celebratory heart! I had never met anyone who was able to show me this before. Not burning out and becoming overwhelmed as most of the dear women in my life tended to become when trying to be supermoms and do it all..
At the end of our time in the UK we went to her family for a visit and I woke up one morning to this delicious smell..... FRESH BREAD... The most wonderful part was it was done in a machine!!!! I know those who read this and have the die hard attitude of " That's cheating !" need to understand that if I had expected myself to go from 1 to 100 in my learning curve of making fresh bread and had the pressure of doing it without a machine, I too would have been another casualty in the burned out mom thing. It would not have happened.
Now we delight in fresh bread in the morning! My machine which I got as a birthday gift, has a feature to set it the night before, make pizza dough and french bread too. I love it! So ask for one as a gift or save your pennies, because at the end of the day to buy a huge bag of flour for bread ( I buy 25lb bags from a bulk food shop), fresh pasta, pizza dough and bread is one of the ways my family get's to eat gourmet on a dime!!!!!
Invest in a bread maker! You won't be sorry!
At the end of our time in the UK we went to her family for a visit and I woke up one morning to this delicious smell..... FRESH BREAD... The most wonderful part was it was done in a machine!!!! I know those who read this and have the die hard attitude of " That's cheating !" need to understand that if I had expected myself to go from 1 to 100 in my learning curve of making fresh bread and had the pressure of doing it without a machine, I too would have been another casualty in the burned out mom thing. It would not have happened.
Now we delight in fresh bread in the morning! My machine which I got as a birthday gift, has a feature to set it the night before, make pizza dough and french bread too. I love it! So ask for one as a gift or save your pennies, because at the end of the day to buy a huge bag of flour for bread ( I buy 25lb bags from a bulk food shop), fresh pasta, pizza dough and bread is one of the ways my family get's to eat gourmet on a dime!!!!!
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