INGREDIENTS

INSTRUCTIONS

Grate copious amounts of garlic and saute in a squirt of Pam spray
until brown.  Sprinkle in some rosemary and oregano.  Add veggies and
some water and saute.  Add some fresh basil leaves if you have them,
and saute until they just wilt. Add a sufficient amount of canned
tomato sauce and a little tomato paste to achieve the texture you
want. For a couple of zucchini and 12 oz. of mushrooms, one standard
can (16 oz?) of sauce is enough.  Good veggies for this: mushroom,
zucchini, broccoli, spinach,  artichoke heart, green bean, acorn
squash. Peppers and onions added  to the saute overwhelm the whole dish
for me, making it taste like a  big pepper (rather than a big TOMATO
which is what I want it to taste  like).  The Saturday afternoon way to
get good veggies in sauce (a saute pan,  a pot, a blender, another pot
for skinning tomatoes):  if I have time I start my tomato sauce by
simmering 3 oz. of sundried  tomatoes and a head or two of whole garlic
cloves (uncut garlic,  cooked before processing, has a much milder
taste than garlic that is  cut before cooking).  A handful of dried
sweet red pepper flakes  added to this is also good.  Once everthing is
cooked/rehydrated, I  puree it, return it to the pot, add sauteed
veggies PLUS several  large peeled/seeded/chopped tomatoes. Also
rosemary, basil, oregano,  thyme, bay leaves, etc. in random
quantities, usually a couple of bay  leaves and a couple of teaspoons
of each of the dried herbs, and a  big wad of fresh basil leaves (ADM
hydroponic basil, found year-round  in central IL grocery stores).
Simmer this until it tastes done. If  it's thin, add a little more
water and it's soup, if thick, add a  little tomato paste and it's
spaghetti sauce. I've also put lentils  in this and called it
minestrone.  From: cgibas@wraightc3.life.uiuc.edu (Cynthia J. Gibas).
Fatfree  Digest [Volume 9 Issue 49] Aug. 9, 1994. Formatted by Sue
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