My Spaghetti Sauce Recipe

Well this week I spent some time restocking my freezer. I don't set aside a day currently to make a whole months worth of food. I simply plan to make extra of a meal I am currently making and put them up in the freezer. There are some meals I do plan to make in advance, but for the most part I just do it on a small scale. (cooking one day for a whole month is very overwhelming to me...and I am fickle so chances are I wouldn't want to eat all the stuff I put in the freezer)...anyway here is my spaghetti sauce recipe. I always get compliments on it and it is very very easy.

Spaghetti Meat Sauce

3 cups chopped onion
20 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup olive oil
8 (28 ounce) cans whole peeled tomatoes
2 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon white sugar
4 bay leaf
4 (6 ounce) cans tomato paste
1 tablespoon dried basil
2 teaspoons ground black pepper


Directions

Chop onions and garlic.
In a large saucepan over medium heat, saute onion and garlic in olive oil until onion is translucent.


Stir in tomatoes, salt, sugar and bay leaf.




(*note- I use a mixture of chopped tomatoes and crushed because I like the texture more)


Cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer 90 minutes.

Stir in tomato paste, basil, 1/2 teaspoon pepper and ground beef (cooked and broken up)- and simmer 30 minutes more. Serve.

*let cool and then store in freezer bags for future meals



I really like having small amounts of this sauce frozen in snack size bags (then put in a bigger freezer safe bag). With the small bags I can make *spaghetti O'* with out all the preservatives. I will buy the the fun shaped pasta and cook it up...everyone is happy!!!

I hope you enjoy.