Subj : Red Gravy
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Mon Aug 18 2025 01:31 pm
Hi Dave,
DD> I can-and have - do my own red pasta or pizza sauce. I learned early
DD> on from my mother that spaghetti sauce is an *all day* deal. Even with
DD> short cuts it takes more time than I care to spend these days.
RH> I'm home most days so can do it while multi tasking with laundry,
RH> sewing, reading the paper (on line) or whatever else needs doing. Made
RH> in quantity, it freezes well.
DD> I have to take Dennis' eating schedule into account since it is
DD> different from mine. He sometimes does eaags, meat and taters after
DD> noon. And uses the whole stove top it seems. If I have a pot of sauce
DD> on one of the burners ..........
Sigh! One good thing about starting the sauce earlier in the day is that
you can turn it off for an hour or two part way thru cooking, then
resume. If you have enough room, keep it on the stove top, moved to the
back. Or, depending on the pot size, put it in the oven on a low setting
and let it keep cooking.
DD> Especially as I am mostly cooking for one. So I buya jus of
Onofrio's DD> (probably not to be had in your range of territory)or
Rao's. Or one DD> of the not so premium brands like Bertolli or RH>
Classico and GG> "tart it up" to my taste.
RH> We bought some Rao's this spring at Sam's Club to take on our bug road
RH> trip. Ended up not using it then but did, once we got home. I added
RH> some extra herbs/spicing for the pasta sauce but we've used it right
RH> out of the jar for quick pizzas. It is a "will buy again". When we were
RH> up in VT a few years ago, Steve and I shopped and cooked for our
RH> mission team. I had a nasty case of bronchitis so he did the initial
RH> shopping at Hanniford's, a northeast grocery chain. We usually do
RH> spaghetti for the first team meal so I told him to buy a jar of sauce
RH> and we'd doctor it up. He bought their (IIRC) classic sauce, don't know
RH> if he added anything but it was pretty good. I think we brought a jar
RH> home with us. (G)
DD> Classico and Bertolli's are both superior (IMO) to Prego.
Sauce was one thing my mom never bought, even tho hers was more like a
sort of chili, with Italian seasoning and no beans. Told Steve when we
first got married, I'd make his mom's sauce, then my mom's and we'd
decide which to go with. My mom's version is what we use for a
beef-a-roni type meal. (G)
DD> 8<----- EDIT ----->8
DD> ... "Hard work should be rewarded by good food." -- Ken Follett
RH> He's one of my favorite authors.
DD> My favourites are Heinlein, Lamour, Asimov, and lately James Lee
DD> Burke.
RH> Mine include Michener, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Alison Wier and
RH> Philippa Gregory. First 2 aren't writing any more but have books out
RH> I've yet to read. Last 2, my older daughter got me reading when she
RH> loaned me a Wier book.
DD> None of the first three I named are above ground any longer so their
DD> output is severely restricted. But I have read everything they have
DD> published with the exception of Dr. Asimov's biochemistry treatises.
DD> If you enjoy cops 'n' robbers books that are well written or just well
DD> written/plotted/presented stories I do recommend James Lee Burke
RH> My favorite genre is historic fiction, 3 of the 4 above named authors
RH> are (were) major writers of that, Wier and Gregory writing a lot about
RH> Henry VIII and relatives.
DD> Heinlein wrote "science fiction" and it's amazing how much ofthe stuff
DD> he "blue skyed" in his work had come to pass. Asimov wrote both
DD> science fiction and mysteries and won the top award in both
DD> categories. The top award for mysteries/detective stories (the EDGAR)
DD> in novel, serialized
DD> novel and short story categories. Louis Lamour won multiple SPUR
DD> awards as well as Oscars for his writings. And James Lee Burke has
DD> more than one EDGAR for his output.
Not my cuppa tea, tried sci-fi around junior high school but never
developed an interest in it. Might try Louis Lamour one of these days.
DD> I enjoy sci-fi, mysteries, historical fiction (and fact),
DD> biographies, etc. And I much prefer reading a book to watching the
DD> boob tube or the movies.
I enjoy a well written biography; David McCullugh (think I spelled the
name wrong) wrote one on Harry Truman that I enjoyed. As for tv--news,
Jeopardy and (in the summer) America's Got Talent is about all we watch.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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