No pictures - Rocky's Homecoming and then State Softball Tournament - drained the battery and forgot to recharge... yikes!
Both daughters and boyfriends here for dinner tonight. They wanted spaghetti. I had some heirlooms in the garden, peeled and crushed them. added some canned sauce, puree, and paste.
Put some sliced onions in my DeBuyer with a little olive oil and salt, let them sweat, then turned up the heat to get some color. Added some sliced garlic (about 5 cloves - I love garlic) and let that get fragrant. Then added some carrot matchsticks and kept them moving so nothing burned. Once they were smelling good, I added about a pound of Italian sausage (bulk) and a half pound of 80/20 hamburger. More salt and some pepper. kept everything moving and added some Italian Seasoning (lots.)
Meanwhile all the tomato stuff went into a pot (except the crushed tomatoes.) More salt pepper and Italian Seasoning. Water is on for the noodles and the oven heating for the garlic bread.
As the sausage and beef came close to done, I added the crushed tomatoes to that pan with some more Italian Seasoning and a little red pepper flakes. Tasted it and it needed something - added some Balsamic Vinegar (wanted a squeeze of lemon but none in the house.)
Added the meat mix to the sauce and let them get to know each other. Noodles are done, bread is done, pulled the sauce - they loved it.
