Lazy Spaghetti Sauce

Are you worn out? Worked all day? Out of time? Or maybe just good old-fashioned lazy? Despite all that, you still want awesome tasting spaghetti sauce? Then I've got the recipe for you!!
 

OK, setting used car salesman voice aside. This really is an awesome Italian tomato sauce (sunday gravy, posted about in an earlier blog, is the from-scratch version of what we American's call spaghetti sauce), and is extremely easy. You need only three things: a can of pre-made spaghetti sauce (blah), your favorite Italian salad dressing (Newman's Own Sun-dried Tomato), and red wine (have a glass on the side, while you're at it. Ain't nothing wrong with drinking on Wednesday). Mix these things together, and bam, from blah to tasty! People will think you're a cooking genius!

I, of course, add a few more ingredients to any version I make, but those three are the base. If it's too acidic, I add a little sugar. I always add some sort of spice, but not so much that it dominates the other flavors. For me, its a dollop of Sriracha. (Adding a touch of heat does amazing things for any tomato sauce.) Fresh herbs, yanked off my own plants. Dash of white pepper, some cracked black pepper. And I always add some sort of fresh vegetable: onions, bell peppers and tomatoes this time. Version before - fennel bulb, orange bell pepper, tomatoes, onion. Anything goes, I've even added carrots.

The version seen in the pan here is vegetarian, but normally I would add some sort of meat, like ground turkey or beef. Typically I'd make it in a deep sauce pan, too, but this batch of lazy spaghetti sauce was being prepped for 'Eggs in Purgatory'. Someday I'll have to blog about that recipe - very traditional, but rarely seen in these here parts.

Done quickly, and turns out beautiful. Lazy spaghetti sauce: good on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Saturday - John take me out to dinner please... I want sushi...

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Lazy Spaghetti Sauce

by Katie Tillwick October-25-2012

For when you don't want to cook a fancy pants meal, but still want people to think you're food is fancy pants.

Ingredients

• 1 14 oz. jar spaghetti sauce
• 3 glugs (3 TBS) decent red wine
• 1/4 cup Italian salad dressing (non-creamy kind only)
• 1 TBS white sugar
• be creative - whatever else you want

Instructions

1. Pour spaghetti sauce in a pot, set heat to medium. Add wine, salad dressing and sugar. If you're being creative, add the creative things. 2. Cook until heated through, stirring occasionally. If fresh vegetables are added, let simmer for 20 minutes. Serve over pasta.