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| I enjoy this phase: Baby sits up, baby doesn't crawl away yet, baby entertains himself with a basket of toys! |
It seems to me that it's taken me about six long months after having each baby to start cooking again. I'm slow to manage transitions apparently. Lately, I've been enjoying starting to make marinara, which I'm always surprised is so easy when one uses canned tomatoes. I think my marina is cheaper than the $3 per 24-oz jar I've been buying (which is not the cheapest, not the most expensive), but it may be on par and that's okay because mine tastes better and has a lot more nutrition and fiber in it. Yay!
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| I like to throw in everything but the kitchen sink: today's batch included garlic, diced onions, a can of mushrooms, grated carrots, spinach, and beet greens. After the vegetables are sauteed, I use my stick blender to grind it up so it's barely visible in the tomato sauce. |
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| Enough marinara to last our family for several weeks! |
Of my three eating children, one doesn't eat marinara sauce, but two will--most especially if I add a dash of heavy cream to their servings, creating what we call "pink sauce" in our family. Who can argue with heavy cream, right? Yum!
Sitting up yet immobile is the best! Ben has been there for a couple months. I'm in no hurry for him to start crawling, although I can tell he's starting to think about it! :-)
ReplyDeleteLooks delicious!!!!
ReplyDeleteAlice skipped the sitting up and went straight to crawling. In fact, I think she started pulling herself to a stand before she was able to REALLY sit up too. Whew.
Hafsa: I'm not kidding, you were one of my inspirations. I know you do a lot of cooking for the week on the weekends, things like sauces. It's such a good practice if one an manage it!
ReplyDeleteWhat's also really good is a with red sauce is Ricotta cheese. A whole container of Ricotta and a spoonful or two of the red sauce. Yum!!!
ReplyDeleteYum! That marinara sauce looks delicious! What a great idea to cook in bulk on the weekends for the upcoming weeks. Once school planning gets quicker on the weekends, then I will try to cook something in bulk on Saturdays for the upcoming week. I bet your house smelled delicious!
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