Granny Sarella's Spaghetti Sauce: New Recipe 2014 #5

As ordinary as my life is, sometimes it gets really busy. As such, I've gotten behind in my blogging. So get ready for a whirlwind of blogs to be posted today! I have several new recipes to share and a thought about being human and what that means.

My original goal with the New Recipe idea was to make one new recipe each week. I'm adapting that goal now to try a total of (at least) 52 new recipes during the year 2014. I will aim to try one new recipe each week, but sometimes I'll try out more than one, while other times I'll be too busy or not in a position to try anything new. I'll start labeling my recipes by number so I can keep track  and stay on somewhat of a schedule.

About a week and a half ago I tried a new recipe for spaghetti sauce. I don't think I have ever made homemade spaghetti sauce. In the 26 years I've been married our spaghetti sauce has always come out of a jar. I always keep about 3 jars of spaghetti sauce on hand. It is an easy meal when I'm tired. On those occasions we'll have a meatless meal. I'll boil some spaghetti, open the jar of sauce, dump it on the hot spaghetti, stir and tada, an easy hot meal. I am happy to report that I really liked this spaghetti sauce and I anticipate we will be using this sauce from now on. Well we will be using it after we use up the three jars that are in the pantry. In order to have enough of this on hand I'll have to prepare a large batch and freeze several jars of it. With several jars in the freezer, I'll still have that fall back, easy meal to prepare and this sauce has meat in it!!!

Granny Sarella's Spaghetti Sauce over spaghetti squash and sauteed' spinach

The recipe for Granny Sarella's Spaghetti Sauce came from Danielle Walker's cookbook Against All Grains. This is my new favorite cookbook and I just got it around Christmas time. The spaghetti sauce is made with ordinary ingredients most people already have in their kitchen. It does have an interesting twist. Along with the pound of ground beef that is in it, it also calls for 1 pound of bone in pork. After searing the pork in a skillet you add it to the sauce and let it cook in the simmering sauce. This was awesome because I cooked the spaghetti sauce on a Saturday. Most of it was gone by Monday, but I had the pork to take in my lunch. I just cooked up some green beans and I had three lunches for the upcoming week.

Back to the cookbook Against All Grains, it is a grain free cookbook. Danielle Walker has an autoimmune disease and at one time was very ill. She is now managing her disease through a grain free, dairy free diet. A couple of things I like about the cookbook are that she has three sections dealing with "navigating a new lifestyle," "my ingredients," and "my equipment." She has an amazing website which is also called Against All Grains. Although the spaghetti sauce recipe I made for my "new recipe" is in her cookbook and I can't share the recipe in this blog, you can check out the recipe she has on her blog for Spaghetti with Meat Sauce. There are also tons of other good recipes on the blog. Against All Grains also has a facebook page. If you'd like to venture into the world of grain free cooking check out Danielle's blog and facebook page.

One day soon, in another post, I'll share how I ventured into the primal/paleo diet that I follow and the results I'm experiencing.