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11 Recipes You Can Make with Tomato Sauce

April 8, 2020

Open up your kitchen cabinet, grab a can of tomato sauce, and make delicious small bites, Italian inspired main dishes, and so many other recipes! This post may contain affiliate links. Making a purchase through one of these links helps support this blog. Growing up in an Italian family, tomato sauce was always a staple in our house. Mom would hit up the can-can sale at the grocery store multiple times – and I’m pretty sure she still does that…

Slow Cooker Boozy Applesauce

November 29, 2019

Give homemade applesauce an extra boost of flavor with this Slow Cooker Boozy Applesauce recipe made with whiskey, brown sugar, vanilla, and cinnamon! This post may contain affiliate links. Making a purchase through one of these links helps support this blog. Today is the day! Yes, it’s the day after Thanksgiving. Yes, it’s Black Friday. But it’s also the day that I drop everything and spend a good portion of my morning – and, most likely, afternoon – decorating our…

Chickpea Puttanesca

April 23, 2019

This post may contain affiliate links. Making a purchase through one of these links helps support this blog. There’s nothing scandalous about how good this Chickpea Puttanesa is! This flavorful Italian sauce gets a healthy boost of protein from canned chickpeas! The Italian sauce with a scandalous history! Puttanesca has a “saucy” little history behind it. Apparently, prostitutes used to whip this up between gentlemen because it’s quick and easy to make. It’s also said that the glorious smell…

How to Make Crushed Tomatoes

August 20, 2013

Have an overabundance of garden tomatoes? It only takes a few easy steps to make fresh homemade crushed tomatoes with your garden haul! This post may contain affiliate links. Making a purchase through one of these links helps support this blog. One of our large tomato plants is starting to slow down for the season. There are bunches of green tomatoes on each branch, but they’re taking longer to mature. Our other tomato plant is still producing mature fruit on…

Frank Sinatra Inspired Fresh Tomato Sauce

April 16, 2011

This Frank Sinatra inspired fresh tomato sauce is made with whole peeled tomatoes, Italian herbs and seasonings, onion, and garlic infused olive oil! This post may contain affiliate links. Making a purchase through one of these links helps support this blog. It all started with a conversation about mobsters with a friend, which somehow turned into inspiration for a Frank Sinatra inspired tomato sauce. I did some research on this famous Hoboken, New Jersey native and I found out that…