Name: Tomato Sauce
Ingredients: 1 lg Can tomatoes (cheapest is; Best here, since they're; Soupy to start with); 2 Dead-ripe, peeled, fresh; Tomatoes (optional - if; They're in season, else; Don't bother); 1 Onion, chopped; 2 cl Garlic, minced; 1 sm Bell pepper, red or green; (optional - only if you; Like it); 1/4 c Best olive oil; 8 oz Contadina tomato sauce; 6 oz Can Contadina tomato paste; 1/2 ts Salt; 1/4 ts Dried oregano; Minced fresh basil, to; Taste (hard to have too; Much basil)

Why do soldiers first experience boot camp? Because they need to be taught how to push their body, overcome the desire to quit and grow beyond the pain. The mind way too often gives in before the body gives out. Likewise, why did the Apostle Paul say, “I discipline my body and make it my slave” (1 Cor. 9:27). The Christian life is not about listening to our bodies and giving into its desires (gluttony, drunkenness, slothfulness, sexual immorality), but rather mastering our bodies and making the body a slave to a biblically controlled mind. This is the difference between being controlled by the flesh or being led by the Spirit (Gal. 5). Exercise, in order to be effective, pushes the body beyond its comfort zone. Diets push the body beyond its comfort zone. These make the body your slave and no longer your master. These produce discipline. And coming full circle, discipline is essential for us to mortify sin (cf. 1 Pet. 4:1-2).

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Sauces	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	lg	Can tomatoes (cheapest is
		Best here, since they're
		Soupy to start with)
2		Dead-ripe, peeled, fresh
		Tomatoes (optional – if
		They're in season, else
		Don't bother)
1		Onion, chopped
2	cl	Garlic, minced
1	sm	Bell pepper, red or green
		(optional – only if you
		Like it)
1/4	c	Best olive oil
8	oz	Contadina tomato sauce
6	oz	Can Contadina tomato paste
1/2	ts	Salt
1/4	ts	Dried oregano
		Minced fresh basil, to
		Taste (hard to have too
		Much basil)

INSTRUCTIONS

Heat the olive oil in a large pot, and saute the onions and green pepper
until soft.  Add the garlic and saute another minute or two. Coarsely chop
the fresh tomatoes, add them to the pot and cook, stirring, until they
begin to give up their juice. Coarsely chop the canned tomatoes and add
them, along with the tomato sauce and tomato past. Stir in the seasonings,
cover the pot and simmer the sauce over low heat 20 to 30 minutes, stirring
occasionally.
The Contadina tomato sauce and paste have significantly better flavor than
any others I know of. If you can't get Contadina, then a small shake of
tobasco will help (not enough to make it hot, just enough to give it a
little sparkle).
For all those people who THINK they can't make a pie crust, here is a
quick, easy, and CHEAP pie crust recipe. I think the trick is the boiling
water and fluffing the shortening with a fork so that it disperses evenly
throughout the flour.

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