Recipes - Mary's Spaghetti Sauces

RECIPES
PASTA

Mary's Spaghetti Sauce - 1

1	pkg	chicken apple sausage
2	jars	traditional sweet basil tomato sauce
1		green pepper
1		green apple
1 1/2		portabella mushrooms, large
1	tsp	splenda

Remove sausage casings and brown in bottom of large pot, breaking up into minimum size chunks, or slice casings and fry till brown. Dump cooked sausage into spaghetti drainer and wash with hot water to remove excess fat. Use paper towel to clean fat out of pot. Return cooked sausage.

Chunk pepper and apple and mushrooms. Put into pot and add cooked sausage, tomato sauce and splenda.

Cook about 1 hour covered to merge flavors; cook over lower heat, stirring occasionally to keep bottom from burning, until sauce cooks down (1/2 - 1 hr more).

Mary's Spaghetti Sauce - 2

1	pkg	sweet sausage patties (1 lb)
2		onions, large
2	jars	traditional sweet basil tomato sauce
3		red peppers
1		green apple
2	pkgs	portobello mushrooms, large
1	pkg	raw sugar

Brown sausage, breaking up into minimum size chunks. Dump cooked sausage into spaghetti drainer and wash with hot water to remove excess fat. Put to side.

Slice onions, then chunk and cook in bottom of large pot in small amount of olive oil until sweet (maybe 1/2 hr).

Chunk peppers and apple and mushrooms. Put into pot and add tomato sauce and sugar.

Cook about 1 hour covered to merge flavors; cook over lower heat, stirring occasionally to keep bottom from burning, until sauce cooks down (1/2 - 1 hr more).