Buon Appetito!

Ciao a tutti!

Today once I got home from church, I returned to my place of relaxation and fell back asleep. I really wanted to get rid of this illness! When I woke up at 3:00 PM to a light flicked on and my mother who came down to see how I was feeling (thanks mom), I said I was feeling a little better and that I wanted to make a homemade Italian spaghetti recipe. So, we went to the grocery store and then came home and started to prepare the masterpiece (not really) American-Italian tomato sauce. I took pictures, I figured it'd be more fun for you to look at pictures compared to reading text. Thanks for the help, Mom.

blanching the tomatoes

straight from the boiling water

skinless tomato

quartering the tomatoes

dicing the tomatoes and onions, washing the basil

adding the onions to the olive oil - smells delicious!

pomodoro e cipolla
(tomato & onion)

adding the noodles to the sauce
to soak up the flavor!

preparing the noodles to "al dente"
al dente is a little less tender (more firm)
the Italians love it this way
(and so do I)

the finished product!
of course I had to stage a photo
buon appetito!

It was delicious! Thank you Mom for your help!
This is where this post ends. Until next time, ciao.
AF