Gravy!!!!!!!!!!

When you are making a tomato gravy skies are the limit to what you can create. You want to grab some of your fresh favorite Italian herbs such as basil, oregano, etc. Grab about 10 large tomatoes, your favorite Italian red wine, two garlic cloves, 1 large Vidalia (red) onion, as well as my personal favorite 1 green pepper.
Chop up your tomatoes and place them on the stove on a medium heat or put them in a crock pot for slow cooking. The crock pot will allow you to do other things while your gravy worries about itself. When you see the tomatoes begin to stew. Add all of your other ingredients to the pot. Make sure all of your other ingredients are finely chopped.Brown and season some ground beef add it to the the rest of the ingredients. Season your gravy to taste with salt, pepper, sugar. Add about 3-5 table spoon of flour for thickness and if you want your gravy to be really thick add 2 cans of tomato paste. Stir the sauce really good. Turn the burner down to a low heat and let everything simmer and slow cook together. Stir occasionally, and continue to taste the sauce so that you can continue to season it according to your taste. ENJOY

Trials and Tribulations of Garlic

Ok So, I love fresh garlic. I love to peel and chop it myself. Well if you are like me when it comes to garlic, then you probably noticed garlic is not quite as fond of you as you are of it. What I am talking about is the smell the garlic leaves behind on your fingers after your hand chop it. Sure garlic smells great when you are sitting at a dinner table but its not so great to carry that with you everywhere you go. I have heard about all types of home made remedies for what I call "garlic fingers". But in trying these remedies, I found that unmistakable smell to still be ever so present. One day I finished chopping garlic for my dinner, and after washing my hands, I wanted to prepare myself a fruit salad to go along with it. I love pineapples so naturally I included one in my fruit salad. To my amazement. After I was done peeling and cutting the pineapple. That garlic smell which usually takes about three days to wear completely off, was gone. So there it is folks my natural remedy for curing "garlic fingers". PINEAPPLE. WHO KNEW?

PS: You could always just wear gloves. (smile)

Pasta Ordeals!

Hello Friends,

When I am not making my pasta from scratch, my favorite Pasta to cook with is Barilla! I swear by it. Everything I make with Barilla comes out perfect. I used to buy what ever pasta was the cheapest. But I wasted a lot of money doing that. If you could only see the many pastas I just chucked into the trash because they were horrible. Some of them even over boiled and fell a part after only being in the hot water for two minutes!!!!! Use Barilla. I promise you can't go wrong with it in any recipe.

This is my tip for the week.

Which Pasta is your favorite?

PS: NO. I do not get paid to say this. However it would be nice.