My Innaugural Post

This blog will be my place in which to detail my musings about life (and my musings about my successes--and failures--in the kitchen).

Today, after several days of putting off making spaghetti and meatballs, I decided to hunker down and do it. I still do not have an uncluttered pantry (HA!), and so, despite my hubs's insistence, I could not find the bottles/jars of spaghetti sauce. Instead, I had some cans of tomato product, and WAY too much time on my hands.

The meatballs were frozen, add to sauce after the sauce is done, meatballs. I had three garlic cloves, a can of mushrooms, 3 cans of Italian diced tomatoes, and a can of whole peeled tomatoes that I pulverized in a blender. While that was going on, I took more garlic, granulated, onion flakes, a few varieties of Mrs. Dash, basil, parsley, oregano, sea salt, and freshly ground black pepper, and sauteed in olive oil (a few good glugs). I then tossed the tomato mixture in and heated the mixture.

I had some sparkling wine (the California equivalent of Brut champagne) that I added to the sauce as well. Then, I doctored the sauce with sugar. When hubs came home from work, I made him taste the sauce. He kind of made THAT face and set about adding his most favorite kitchen ingredient...ketchup.

My mom was out all day with my aunt, so we invited my dad over for spaghetti. Thankfully, hubs boiled the spaghetti, since I'm clueless with all grains and pastas that have to be boiled. In a pinch, I made a variation of garlic bread: lightly toasted whitewheat bread covered with a paste of mayo, olive oil, shredded cheddar, parmesan, pepper, garlic salt, and more Dash. I then browned the product in the oven (a bit too much perhaps?) and served the spaghetti and sauce with creamed English peas (with parsley).

This was probably not my best culinary effort, and hubs's ketchup really saved the day.