special spaghetti sauce...

When I was little, my mom canned a huge batch of spaghetti sauce.  The recipe she used called for cheese which, of course, burned.  The result was a lovely homemade sauce with a slightly scorched taste.  It took a little while to get used to, but we actually got to liking it.  Did I mention that she made a HUGE batch?  I think it lasted a little over two years.  When we finally ran out we went out and bought a case of sauce at the store.  Would you believe that after two years of scorched sauce, we could hardly eat the "normal" stuff!

Now, Mama cans all of the garden tomatoes to use for soups, so we have to buy sauce.  Over the years, I think we've tried just about every brand of spaghetti sauce on the market, but we just couldn't find anything that we liked the taste of.  Finally, we decided to make our own again.  Instead of homegrown tomatoes, we buy plain tomato sauce and add our own ingredients to it.

After trying several different brands of tomato sauce, we finally settled on 8 ounce cans of Happy Harvest from Aldi.  Many of the other brands we tried were greasy. 

We add four different kinds of herbs as well as garlic to the sauce. 

Parsley
Oregano
Basil
Italian Seasoning

Just add to taste.  We like a very flavorful sauce so we add quite a bit of each.  Our family is also very partial to basil, so we add a bit more of it than the other herbs.

Add minced garlic cloves.
This is also to taste.  We LOVE garlic, so we usually use one clove for each 8 ounce can of sauce.

Mix well, heat thoroughly and there you have it!  A wonderful spaghetti sauce perfect for any dish.  It also gives a wonderful Italian fragrance to the kitchen!

Enjoy!