Spaghetti Warmth

Boil a pot of water

Prepare ice bath

Remove stems from tomatoes

Score an x on top of tomatoes

Gently put tomatoes in boiling water

Boil tomatoes just until you can see the skin start to peel

Remove tomatoes and put immediately in ice bath

Place tomatoes in blender and puree til smooth

Poor tomato juice in bowl and repeat blender til all tomatoes are smooth

In deep sauce pot heat olive oil

Mine garlic

Chop onion to small pieces

Add onion and garlic to sizzling olive oil

Saute until onions are carmalized

Add tomato juice to onion and garlic mixture

Reduce heat to low

Add basil, Italian seasoning, parsley, nutmeg, sea salt, ground sage, allspice, oregano, ground ginger, celery salt, ground pepper, crushed bay leaves, granulated sugar, cayenne pepper

Still til all spices mixed

Simmer 30 minutes

Stir

Simmer 15 minutes

Chop end off carrot

Add whole carrot to sauce

Simmer 45 minutes, stirring occasionally

Stir

Simmer until cooked down into a spaghetti sauce thickness, stirring occasionally to not burn (it might take longer as I am in the mountains than it did me)

Ground your meat or do vegetarian (we either do 1 lb ground Italian sausage and 1 lb ground hamburger or 2 lb ground buffalo) with desired herbs and spices

Add cooked meat to spaghetti sauce

Stir

Remove carrot and discard or shred and add it in sauce

Serve as spaghetti or goolash