Homemade Marinara Sauce

Marinara sauce is the stuff that runs through Italian veins, and you thought it was regular ol' blood huummph! Fortunately for all you non italians Marinara sauce doesn't require an entire day of cooking like a good meat sauce.  In fact you can whip up a yummy marinara sauce in just a half an hour and be drowning your pasta in it in a flash.

Marinara Sauce Ingredients

1 box Pomi sauce ( not your store brand or any other brand...it will NOT be the same)
2 teaspoons diced garlic
2 tablespoons EVOO
5 leaves of sweet basil , rough chopped
1 large carrot , peeled and cut in 4s
Dash of sea salt

Warm EVOO on Medium high flame and saute your garlic in the hot EVOO for a minute to leach some of the flavor out.
Pour POMI ( and ONLY Pomi) into your pan, add basil, carrot and salt
cover and turn the flame to medium
slow boil your Marinara Sauce until the carrot is soft, stirring VERY occasionally
remove the carrot and serve over Pasta.

How to make Pasta like an Italian 

Here are a few tips so you don't screw up your pasta and waste all this beautiful Marinara Sauce

1 SALT THE WATER ( don't skimp on the salt)  In  fact OVER SALT the water .
2. Don't turn your pasta to MUSH , AL Dente folks.  That means when it starts to bend around your pasta claw and a piece will stick to your cupboard if you fling it from across the room it is DONE .  If it is MUSHY throw it out and start again.
3. Oil your pasta , it tastes better and if you have leftovers they wont stick together
4. You are actually supposed to TASTE the pasta.  So put a few tablespoons on top of your pasta serving, don't mix it all together.
5. Use the good cheese, that shaker crap should be banned

Enjoy !