Category: tomato sauce

Chili Burrito

Ever try Taco Bell and get disappointed? Too salty? To mushy, well it sounds to me as if someone needs to make their own, well, we did too, and this turned out amazing, and honestly it was quick simple and easy, very little effort and trust me it turned out amazing!

Phase 1 Chili Time!

Oil your pan lightly
Add in some ground beef
Add in 1 large or 2 small onions diced up
Break burger up so its very small
Keep mixing the burger and onion.

Add the following spices to your own taste
Mexican oregino
Ground cuming
Ground black pepper
Smoked Paprika and Onion
Chili powder
Mix the spices up fully and ensure that all your meat gets some love

Add a few drops of apple cider vinegar

Add 2 cups of water

Keep stiring as you add ingredients

Take a glass and add some corn starch in to make a slurry to thicken your sauce and add it to your mix

Cover and simmer for 5 minutes

Add 1 can of refried beans

Add 1 can of tomato paste

Add some adobe chipolte peppers (preferably diced up, if not, take some time and dice the peppers up first.)
If you can’t handle heat then please do not add them.

Let simmer for 10 minutes

Shred up half a block of cheese, (Do not buy pre shredded cheese, as it has a higher melting point and is has lots of chemicals and is not as good quality, or even better yet buy some higher quality cheese!)

Start slowly adding the cheese into the mix until cheese is melted, and then add more until its completely melted in.

Take it off the heat.

Phase 2 Serving

Take a tortilla wrap

Add some of the mix in the middle, add some sour cream, even better yet, Mexican sour cream, and then wrap it up, and serve it!

We hope you enjoyed this, if you made this let us know what you think, we really love it, and honestly one of the best dishes we made yet!

Baked Ziti 2024

Baked Ziti can be compared to lausuagna but there are differences, and it can taste absolutely amazing, and a very fun dish, doesn’t take a lot of prep time and can be quite tasty, and a crowd pleaser.

You can buy your marinara sauce, or you can buy it, see the link below to our homemade marinara sauce we made.

Click here for the video!

Its fun, and easy, and it tastes amazing!

Phase 1 Choppy Choppy

So if you have a food processor run these through it to get it almost puried, if you don’t then chop it up as finely as you can.

1 Large onion, a whole garlic, roasted peppers (This is optional, you don’t have to have this.)

Phase 2 Cheese Please!

You will want to grade a lot of parmesan cheese, (You can buy this pre graded.) and your Mozzarella, (please do not buy pre graded.) You are going to need enough of this.

Phase 3 The Noodles

Normally this recipe calls for Ziti noodles, however these are not always easy to get, and in fact, I’ve never been able to find them, penne noodles work just fine.

Cook your noodles either near done, or done according to the package directions, when done drain the water, however do not drain them as we need the starch on it later to help the sauce to stick to the noodles.

Phase 4 The Sauce

Oil your pot and put your onions and ground beef in, cook until the onions are getting cooked, then add the garlic and then roasted garlic , put salt and pepper in.

Put 5 cups of marinara sauce in and mix well.

Put a container of robata cheese in and mix well.

Add your pasta and mix it.

On a casserole dish put a small spread of your meat sauce no noodles.

This way you won’t need to grease our pan.

Pre Heat your oven to 350 degrees.

Now put half of your meat sauce into the pan.

Cover in half your parmesan cheese, and your mozzarella

Now put the rest of your meat sauce in, and cover the rest with cheese.

Now bake it for 25 minutes!

When done leave sit for at least 10 minutes before serving, (other wise your going to have a lot of loss flavor)

Serve!

We hope you like this, its one of our favorite dishes, and we through we would come back to this and share with you our favorite!

Marinara Sauce 2024

Marinara sauce is one of those Italian sauces that you are going to use on almost every type of pasta sauce, spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, Lausanne sauce, this sauce is very versatile and can be used for a lot of different things, and honestly tastes great.

And another fun fact, is you can easily buy this, and yes you can, but it also has a lot of preservatives, and not as healthy or even as good tasting. Sure its more convenient, and some times cheaper, but your sacrificing taste, and at the end of the day what do you want a cheap meal, or do you want something that has value and taste!

You might think this is a hard dish to make, and really it isn’t.

First question, do you have a good blender, if not do you have a good food processor? If you don’t have a good blender, take all the ingredients you have to chop and put them through a food processor, if not, chop them as fine as you can, along with the tomatoes take a potato masher and be ready to mash them once cooked, if you have a blender follow along, you can be creative on making things work!

Canned tomatoes are the best you can use for this unless you have ones grown from your garden, buying tomatoes from your grocery store isn’t as good as canned ones.

Phase 1 Choppy Choppy

  1. Chop up one large onion, 2 whole garlics, 3 to 5 chili peppers.

Phase 2 Cook time!

This would be the easiest in a Wok, other wise a big pot might be better, or a very large frying pan.

  1. Add a lot of extra virgin olive oil in your pan and heat it up really good, when its hot and bubbling then go to the next step.
  2. Put your onions in and cook them until they start getting soft.
  3. Add your garlic and cook them until they become fraquent.
  4. Add in a few sprays of white wine, (You can use red, but its a bit heavier, rice wine would be ok too, or you can leave this step out.)
  5. Add 3 cans of crushed tomatoes, you can add what ever type of canned tomatoes you want, for tomatoes they should be canned unless you have garden grown tomatoes, (those are best).
  6. Add a lot of oregano, parsley and basil, and mix that in well.
  7. Add some chili peppers, this step is optional.
  8. Add some salt and pepper.
  9. Cook this out until its done, and take it off of the heat.
  10. Put the sauce through a blender.
  11. Once cooled down bottle and fridge.

This is one of the most tastiest and amazing and far healthier than store bought, if you trying to entertain, this will really impress them, and if your going to do Italian, lets do it right, we hope you enjoyed this!

Chickpea Scrambled Egg Breakfast

Anyone with any health issues should respect Chickpeas as they are some of the most amazing things you can eat, they help you a lot, they helped me get my A1C perfect the last few quarters, so they are really good for you. Chickpeas are good for you to the fact they will fill you up and not leave you feeling hungry, while offering a lot of nutrients and are truly one of natures miracle foods.

Waking up to this in the morning is an amazing thing to wake up to try it! Believe me this doesnt take very long.

Phase 1 Ingredients.

  1. 4 Eggs
  2. Garlic Powder.
  3. Cheese.
  4. Lime Juice.
  5. Black Pepper.
  6. Stir Fry Sauce.
  7. Smoked Paprika.
  8. Bamboo Shoots.
  9. Apple Cyder Vinigar.
  10. Tomato Paste.
  11. Ginger and Garlic Paste.
  12. Green Beans.
  13. Water Chestnuts.
  14. Onions.
  15. Canned chickpeas.

Phase 2 Cooking.

Oil a frying pan and add your veggies, keeping in mind you want to constantly stir as you add.

Add lots of black pepper.

Add some apple cyder vinegar.

Add some lime juice.

Add your spices.

Add in your drained chickpeas.

Add in some of your stir fry sauce (Not important brand or type, just something you like.)

Let this simmer for a bit, then add your eggs and scramble them in going even through out the dish.

Add cheese to it.

Finally add some tomato paste, and mix well and get this simmering, and your ready to serve into some bowls!

This is a super easy and fun dish to make, and trust me it is filling and your body will thank you for it!

Burrito Bowl

Burrito Bowls are great, they are an amazing thing to sit down and share on a cold day, one of my favorite Mexican dishes and I believe everyone can enjoy this, yes, it does take time but not something you need to have a lot of skill to make, just time!

Phase 1 Chicken

Chunk up some boneless chicken breasts, you can use chicken thighs if you’d prefer.

Mix in 2 spoons of minced garlic, some liquid smoke (You don’t need a lot, or it will taste like a shoe.)

Lots of black pepper, some Lime juice, some honey, Paprika, onion powder, and some ground cumin.

Lets this marinate covered for at least 2 hours, for best results, 24 hours.

We used the slow cooker to cook this over 6 hours on low with a bit of wine, and apple cyder vinegar and some water.

Phase 2 Mexican Rice

Take a strainer and put in 2 cups of rice and rinse until the water is clean, this will clean the starch off of your rice and then make it, we used a slow cooker.

We then used a wok to cook the rice mix.

1 Onion and Jalopino put through the food processor and then added to the rice

We used 2 cans of drained corn into the rice.

And some lime juice and then a can of crushed tomatoes.

Mix this well and cook well.

Phase 3 Black Bean Mix

We put 2 onions in a food processor, and then to the frying pan we added 2 cans of black beans, and no we did not drain them we want the liquid, and added some paprika, pepper, cumin and garlic and cooked this till the beans were nice and hot.

Phase 4 Chipolete Mayo

In a food processor we added 3 cans of chipotle peppers in adobe sauce

In a bowl with your now pureed chipolete we added some lime juice, mayo (no miracle whip guys, please.) some sour cream, apple cyder vinegar mix well.

Phase 5 Plate

I would take a huge plate, and a very small bowl, in the small bowl put your mayo in and set in the center of your large plate, and then add every piece of the meal and display well

This is a great meal, you can make guacamole and add lots of different things to it, make it your own, burrito bowls are an amazing treat, and yes they do take some time to make, but its worth every moment, I know my wife loves it!

Chicken Biryani

Do you like Indian food? Do you like it hot and spicy, do you want a taste of something authentic Indian? Chicken Biryani is one of the best dishes you can make, and it tastes amazing, and is super easy and simple to make!

Phase 1 Biryani spice mix.

In a small bowl (Or re usable container you can store spices in mix some

  1. Cuming.
  2. Coriander.
  3. Ginger.
  4. Tumeric.
  5. Cinamon.

Mix that together.

Phase 2 Cube the chicken.

Cube up some chicken breasts, or chicken thighs, either works well, chicken thighs offer more fat and gives a bit more flavor, but breasts will work well too.

Phase 3 Prep work.

Cut up some ginger, and 4 onions and a few cloves of garlic and have 2 cups of rice made on stand by.

Phase 4 Cooking.

  1. Fry up and caramelize 4 onions and garlic.
  2. Add chicken cubes make sure its cooked down, no raw chicken.
  3. Add the spice mix.
  4. Mix everything very well.
  5. Add plain Greek yogurt.
  6. Add a can of crushed tomatoes, you can use tomato soup if you have that.
  7. Add a bit of water, and keep mixing well.
  8. Add some chili sauce.

Serve on top of rice.

We hope you enjoy this, we really enjoy this dish, its a good pick me up and honestly, with its flavor and amazing taste, its something you and your family will really enjoy!

Italian Style Spaghettis Sauce

This is a great base for spaghetti sauce, it is done Italian style, and it is tasty, use this as a base, and add from there to your own flavor.

Ingredients

  1. Quarter cup of water.
  2. A TBS of baking soda.
  3. Olive oil.
  4. A whole garlic.
  5. Chili pepper.
  6. 2 Stocks of celery.
  7. 1 Large onion.
  8. Parsley.
  9. Sage.
  10. Oregino.
  11. Black Pepper.
  12. 3 Cans of crushed tomatos.
  13. 2 Cans of tomato paste.

Phase 1 Slurry

In a cup have a quarter cup of water, and add a tablespoon of baking soda, mix well and set aside.

Phase 2 Starting the sauce.

  1. Food process the garlic.
  2. Add a good amount of extra virgin olive oil into a deep frying pan and set the heat on.
  3. Add the garlic to it and start cooking that into the oil, it will infuse it.
  4. While that cooks in the food processor add 2 sticks of celery, some chili peppers, and finally 1 large onion, process this and then put this in a bowl and save it for now.
  5. Add your spices to the pan and mix well.
  6. Add your canned crushed tomatoes.
  7. At this point you want to be constantly stirring especially while you add.
  8. Add your cans of tomato paste.
  9. Now add your veggies.
  10. At this point your nearly done and you need to make sure its cooking down some and mixed well.
  11. Lastly you need to add your slurry of baking soda, and stir a lot now, as it will start to boil over, but this extra step will help you with indigestion and other issues that a high concentration of tomato product will cause you.
  12. Take it off the stove and cool down and a bit and your ready to serve, if your like us and like to save it for later in the week, wait till it is completely cooled down and freeze.

This is it! Now you can make your own meat balls, and noodles, you can add and modify this, but this will give you a great base, and honestly having the slurry will help with anyone with stomach issues, we hope you enjoy!

Sloppy Aimees

Sloppy Aimees is my take on a Sloppy Joe, just more healthy fun, and much more tasty.

This is fun, easy and very tasty!

Ingredients

  1. 3 Onions
  2. 3 Green Peppers
  3. Garlic
  4. Ground Beef
  5. Pepper
  6. Salt
  7. Worcestershire Sauce
  8. Spaghettis Sauce
  9. Apple Cyder Vinegar
  10. BBQ Sauce
  11. Your choice of hot sauce
  12. Big burger buns

Cooking

  1. Start by chopping up your onion, green pepper and garlic, it would be best if you had a food processor and let it do it for you, more simple and a lot quicker.
  2. In a oiled frying pan start frying up that mix.
  3. Add in your ground beef, breaking it up making sure its very chunky.
  4. As it cooks down its going to reduce.
  5. Add some pepper.
  6. Add some Worcestershire sauce.
  7. Add some spaghetti sauce.
  8. Add some apple cyder vinegar, not a lot but it does help with taste and works with helping your blood sugar and blood pressure.
  9. Add some BBQ Sauce, your favorite flavor.
  10. If you want some hot sauce this is where you add it in, if your sharing the meal, think about how other people will feel about it, you don’t wanna kill anyone.
  11. Mix this all in good, and cook until done, be careful to make sure the meat is well cooked.
  12. Lastly get your but buns ready and put some mix in until it looks like a sloppy joe, but this time make it messy!

This is a meal best served with fries and maybe some veggies, a great pick me up meal, very simple and quick to make, we really hope you enjoy!

Butter Chicken

This is our butter chicken video, one of the older videos, and honestly it was one of my favorites, who doesn’t like butter chicken, it tastes amazing, and you can make it hot, but you don’t have to, and I think anyone who likes Indian food will tell you they love butter chicken.

I would always encourage you to try to make this if you never had it before, as it is one of those dishes that is simply amazing!

A few things to note, when marinating the chicken you can add some plain fat free Greek yogurt, and when it comes to salt there is a low or no sodium salt you can use and it does make a difference.

Phase 1 Marinating the chicken

Ingredients for phase 1

Boneless chicken thighs

Salt

Garlic Powder (or minced garlic)

Ginger Powder (Or minced ginger)

Onion Powder (or minced onion)

(You can optionally add plain Greek yogurt)

Phase 1

  1. Cube up the chicken thighs.
  2. add the above spices and yogurt if your going to use it.
  3. Let this marinate between 20 minutes to 24 hours.
  4. If your going to add some hot peppers or spice the longer its marinated the hotter its going to be and the better flavor youll have!

Phase 2 Gravy part 1

Ingredients for Phase 2

  1. 2 Onions.
  2. Extra virgin olive oil.
  3. A whole garlic.
  4. Garam Masala.

Phase 2

  1. In a large frying pan put the heat on with some extra virgin olive oil let it heat up.
  2. Chop up the onions and garlic.
  3. Add the onions and garlic and we want to get the onion caramalized.
  4. Mix in the garam masala mix.
  5. Mix everything

Phase 3 Cooking the Chicken

This is simple and easy just fry up your chicken, get it fully cooked, you don’t want to be eating bad chicken.

Phase 4 Finishing up

Phase 4 ingredients

  1. Rice wine vinegar
  2. 2 cans of crushed tomatoes
  3. Half a box of butter
  4. Red pepper flakes
  5. Whipping cream

Phase 4

  1. In your pan with the carnalized onions, add some rice wine vinegar.
  2. Add in 2 cans of crushed tomatoes.
  3. Take this portion and add to a blender or food processor to make smooth and then replace back into the pan.
  4. Chop up the butter into smaller sticks and add it into the gravy and make sure the butter is melting down.
  5. Put the cooked chicken in.
  6. Add some red pepper flakes.
  7. Add some whipping cream in.
  8. Make sure to keep stirring.

This is basically it, there are other spices you can add, and you can make keep improving this, and this is a yummy base for making an amazing meal!

I would serve this with rice and some nan bread, and honestly it is an amazing meal! Enjoy Bon Appitite.

Mac n Cheese Casserole

Mac n Cheese Casserole is a great meal, very simple fast and easy, it tastes great and it is a different meal that should please and fill you!

Mac n Cheese is great on its own, and adding to it can be wonderful!

Phase 1 Noodles

Cook your bag and choice of noodles as directed on the package, we like using elbow macaroni!

Phase 2 Ground Beef

For the beef you can use steak or any other type of pork, but then again you can use any type of pork if you want, but you can also use ground meat as well, if you don’t have a food processor then just buy it already ground, I find by choosing your meat to make into ground meat you have a much better quality and all, so it will be more rewarding.

Take your meat and grind it up in the food processor then put it in a oiled pan and add salt pepper and some spices you like and cook it until done.

Phase 3 Tomato Sauce

You can use 1 can of tomato sauce and 1 can of crushed tomatoes, salt pepper and any other sauce you may choose I also added 2 onions a whole garlic that was also put in the food processor mix it well and cook until its bubbling and your set, take it off the burner.

Phase 4 Mix 1

Take a baking pan you can cook with, maybe like a cake pan, and start by putting your cooked and drained noodles and line the bottom with that, and then the meat and then your tomato sauce you just cooked, and mix it all up good, were almost done folks.

Phase 5 Cheese Sauce

Take a frying pan and cut up some butter and a bit of oil so the butter doesnt burn, once the butter is melted, take a half a cup of flour and stir it well so there are no clumps, and this is very important no one wants to bite into a meal and taste clumps of flour, then add 1 and a half cup of milk mix it well, then start adding 2 types of cheese, bit by bit until the cheese is melted in keep stirring so nothing burns once thats finished were very close.

Phase 6 Mix 2 The Final Mix

Now lets take the cheese sauce and pour it on top of the casserole , and now…

Phase 7 Baking

Now make sure your oven is preheated for 375, then bake for 20 minutes, once the 20 minutes is over, your done, but let it set for 10 to 20 min, and your done!

I hope you enjoy this awesome dish.