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DOUGLAS' ITALIAN RED SAUCE
Douglas' Italian Red Sauce
This is the homemade sauce I developed soon after I was married. My wife had lived with her grandparents for most of her life, and as the got older, their sauces got less and less spicy. I wanted something that would have a kick, please her tastes and also work well for pizza sauce and other dishes.
I have never been one for "sweet" spaghetti sauces, many which call for the inclusion of white sugar in the recipe. I prefer something spicy, with quite a bit of oregano. You can see in the recipe where I add some vinegar, either white or balsamic to add a bit more bite to the sauce. If your tomatoes are already acidic then you can probably leave this out, but most canned tomato sauces, like those I use as the base, tend towards the sweeter side.
We make this sauce probably every 3 weeks or so. We usually have it over pasta the first night, reserve a small amount for pizza or chicken parmagiana during the week and freeze the rest to be used as quick meals on those evenings when we are too busy or tired to cook an entire meal.
Posted as part of Recipes in Rotation, a blog series on My Word with Douglas E. Welch (http://douglasewelch.com/blog/)
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