Spaghetti/pizza/meat ball sandwich sauce

I have been attempting to find a tomato sauce recipe my whole family will eat.  I think this may be the beginning of such a sauce.  If you have any suggestions-I'd love to hear!!  This is just a very basic, and easy to remember.

@ 1 TBSP of olive oil

some chopped onion (one small or half)

mushrooms (of course optional)

1 tsp salt

1 big clove of garlic crushed

1 tsp dried basil

1 tsp dried oregano 

sprinkle of pepper

   Saute on med/low above ingredients til totally limp-@ 10 min.

Add 28 oz can of concentrated crushed tomatoes (I use Walmart's brand $.97)

If like chunky, add small can (15oz) of diced tomatoes. (Aldi's for $.45, I think)

Taste.  May need a little more salt if added the diced tomatoes.  Add 1 tsp of sugar for the kids if needed. :)  

I've used this as pizza sauce (with Debbie's delicious pita wheat recipe) and no one complained.  It's a start..... :)

 

ice packs

Brenda is probably already aware of this having had babies at home, but the rest of you might be interested:

you can make your own squishy ice packs for injuries by adding rubbing alcohol to water in a ratio of 1:2 in a zip lock bag and freezing. Or you can fill a ziplock baggie 1/2 with dish soap and freeze.

I suggest double bagging.

Mine lasted years until we moved and I threw them away. The ones I've made recently won't last as long because I didn't have any top quality bags.

pita ad nauseum

So, my flat pitas didn't go very quickly. I ate some as toast yesterday. Slightly dry.

So, tonight, I sliced them in half and put butter, cinnamon and sugar on three and butter and garlic powder on the other three halves. I put them in the oven with dinner (which was at 400) and baked the pita halves for about 10 minutes or so.

Very popular:)

POC

Pita recipe (more)

Be sure to let the balls rise for at least 20 minutes. My first pitas today were tough, chewy, and didn't break apart. The last two were perfect.