Rules of the blog

So the idea came up in #paforums_pax to have a way for us to share our recipes, especially by those who want to learn to cook. I've set up this blog as a place for people to post and comment on recipes and will eventually (read that as when I f'in feel like it or someone else does the work :P ) be compiled into a cookbook for our community to buy.

To post please contact EruditeAphrodite with your email address and I will add you as a writer. If you can, post pictures with your recipes so people can see what the food looks like. A rating system (Casual, Easy, Normal, Hard, Super Foodie) was also mentioned to give people an idea of how difficult a recipe is.

Some final rules
- The title of your post should be the name of the dish
- Include tags for type of dish (soup, salad, main, etc) along with major ingredients
- If the recipe is something you have yoinked please include where it came from.

If you have any suggestions about running this (and especially if you'd like to help) PLEASE let me know. Eep is a very busy girl. :P

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Spaghetti Sauce

I have never been a fan of spaghetti sauce from a jar. My mother always made sauce from scratch so the store bought kind just flat out tastes bad to me. Fortunately, it's really not hard to make sauce from scratch which allows you to tweak the recipe a bit to suit your tastes. Below is my basic recipe and you'll notice it's vegetarian. In the past I've added sausage and it has been a great success, so feel free to experiment.

Difficulty: Easy

1 28oz can crushed tomatoes
1 28oz can diced tomatoes
3 cloves garlic
1/4 cup red wine
1 Tbs Butter
2 tsp sugar
1 bay leaf
1 tsp basil
1 tsp oregano
1 tsp thyme
salt to taste
6 mushrooms sliced
2 large sausage links (optional)

Melt butter in the bottom of a large pot and brown garlic and sausage if you are using it. Add everything else and let simmer for about an hour stirring regularly, until sauce starts to thicken. Remember to remove the bay leaf when serving over pasta.

I have also been known to put leftover sauce on a baked potato.
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