My Spaghetti Sauce

This is a VERY good pasta sauce! Very easy to throw together. I put it all in the crockpot and cooked on low for 8 hours. A great meal to come home to! I added italian sauages for another meal of bombers and was very happy I did. I will make this again!

Donna, Now who woulda thunk it!!! Italian salad dressing mix!!! And this was sooooo good.I made it for cheese ravioli's so didn't need the meatball part.We loved this sauce. Thanks,Darlene

This was very easy to prepare and the taste was excellent. I used two 28 oz jars of prepared spaghetti sauce instead of the canned tomato sauce (I didn't have any). I made this in my crockpot so I didn't precook the onions and peppers. I just put 8 oz. of sliced fresh mushrooms, peppers and onions in the bottom of the crockpot and put the sauce on top and sprinkled the packet of basil vigarette salad dressing mix (had no italian) and a few bay leaves along with the other spices. I put the frozen meatballs in along with the sauce and cooked all day. It was a nice easy meal to come home too. Thanks for posting Donna!

My husband really liked this sauce! Because of our tiny crockpot, I had to take out half of the sauce about an hour into the cooking time. I'm already planning how to use the leftovers. :) I used a roasted red pepper (from a jar) in place of the fresh one, which gave it a wonderfully zingy, slightly smoky flavor. The 1 drawback was the whole tomatoes; I'd hoped that they'd fall apart in the crockpot -- I love a nice chunky sauce, but my husband prefers a smoother texture. Next time I make this sauce, I'll use 2 cans of sauce, or puree. I'll definitely make this one again, as it is yummy & SUPER easy! :)

Loved the flavours. Pretty much did the recipe as written, other than cooking in my electronic pressure cooker, and it came out wonderfully and in 1/2 the time.