Cheap Eats! Sorta Stir Fry
September 11, 2009 by Marye Audet
Filed under 30 Minutes or Less, Quick and Easy
When Marc and I first got married (in 1980!) he ate a couple of vegetables:corn, green beans, peas, and potatoes. That was it…and I think the green beans were iffy. I, on the other hand, was not a big meat eater but I would eat nearly any vegetable you put in front of me.
Needless to say I did not cook like his mom. I needed to find a way to get the vegetables I loved into our diets without setting off his anti-vegetable meter. What was the answer?
Stir fry! You can chop up nearly anything and put it in a …read more
Spagetti with Garden Marinara Sauce
August 28, 2008 by Marye Audet
Filed under Uncategorized
This is my entry for this week’s presto pasta. It’s kind of embarrassing because it is so simple that there isn’t even really a recipe.
A few weeks ago I was given a large amount of on-the-edge tomatoes. I tossed them in the crockpot with garlic, basil, oregeno, onion, and various other sauce ingredients, let them simmer for several hours, and then pureed them and canned them in quart jars. It was alot of work but I was so glad to have created 8 quarts of free spagetti sauce base!
