Pizza Sauce

Homemade pizza sauce is super easy to make.

Pizza Sauce (from Better Homes and Gardens)
1 28 oz can of crushed tomatoes
1.5 tsp red wine vinegar
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp. dried basil
1/4 tsp dried oregano
1/4 tsp dried thyme
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 - 1/2 cup water

place all ingredients in a bowl and stir, use as desired

So easy a 2 year old can make it!

This is enough for 3 or more pizzas.  My homemade pizzas are comparable to a large Little Caesar's Pizza - and by that I mean in size, not taste!  Not that a well timed  "hot & ready" $5 pizza doesn't have it's place.  I'm glad they are there when they are needed.

January Eatz

Meal Planning, oh the drudgery!  Rob is the type that can eat the same thing repeatedly (providing it is in the meat and potatoes line of foods) and I just feel so blah eating the same things.  I am resolving to do something different for at least 28 days.  I made a 14 day menu and bought the non-perishables to make all the meals twice.  So we'll see how this goes.

The 1st and 3rd:
F - Spaghetti, Salad, Rolls
S - Blue Cheese Crusted Sirloin Steaks, Broccoli, Steamed Carrots, Rolls
U - Ham with Pineapple, Pan fried potatoes, Peas
M - Kidney Bean and Cheddar Cheese Soup, Bread
T - Swedish Meatballs, Egg Noodles, Broccoli
W - New Orleans Red Beans and Rice, Sausage
R - Tacos, Pinto Beans, Rice

The 2nd and 4th
F - Pizza, Salad
S - Baked Beans with Brown Bread
U - Chili, Cornbread, Carrots
M - Minestrone Soup, Rolls
T - Mojo Chicken, Black Beans, Rice, Yellow Curry Sauce
W - Skillet Lasagna, Salad
R - Country Style Pork Ribs, Baked Potatoes, Peas

The Steaks and Ham are Taste of Home, Spaghetti, Tacos, Pizza, Skillet Lasagna Chili, and Mojo Chicken are all just the way I make them.  For Pizza I use the Betty Crocker recipe for crust and a recipe I found in Better Homes and Gardens for sauce.  I ought to post it here, it is unbelievably simple and extremely good.  The Swedish Meatballs are from a Cooking with Kids cookbook, and I think all the rest are from a free Beans cookbook someone gave me at a health fair. 

My cooking goal for 2013 is to increase our bean intake.  I know what they say about beans......but I've also heard that if you increase your beans slowly it cuts down on that.  We already eat beans more than once a week pretty regularly.  I guess time will tell!

I also made macaroons for the first time yesterday.  I had some extra condensed milk from another recipe and two partial bags of coconut flakes.  They were scrumptious and beautiful and the kids drooled over them, took a bite and then rejected them on the basis that they "do not like coconut".  (Natalie's objection was they they were too pokey.)  Ha ha!  More for Rob and me!