{"id":1130,"date":"2016-01-18T02:14:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T02:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2016-05-02T13:38:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T13:38:56","slug":"tomato-sauce-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/tomato-sauce-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomato Sauce III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a simple tomato sauce is just what you need for a dish.\u00a0 This sauce is all about the tomatoes.\u00a0 The tomatoes I use in the recipe are from Costco.\u00a0 They are San Marzano Tomatoes in a 100 oz (2.84L ) can.\u00a0 They are whole peeled tomatoes packed in tomato puree with basil, salt and citric acid and are $4.00 a can.\u00a0 Not only are they a good buy but they are good tomatoes.\u00a0 Since I grow basil in my garden and I always have way more than I would use fresh so I fill the blender with the leaves and add a bit of water and olive oil and puree it.\u00a0 Then I put it in a large zip lock bag spreading it flat and thin and freeze it to use all winter.\u00a0 Oregano is one of those herbs that is alive and well under the snow in my garden.\u00a0 If we do not have too much snow I will go pick some for this recipe.\u00a0 We love this sauce on pizza.\u00a0 Leftovers can be frozen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-ingredients\"><h3>Ingredients<\/h3><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">3 tbls olive oil<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">4 cloves of garlic, crushed<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">2-28oz cans whole tomatoes (preferably San Marzano Tomatoes)<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">2 teas dried oregano or 2 tbls fresh oregano<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">2 dozen fresh basil leaves<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">salt &amp; fresh ground pepper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"shortcode-directions instructions\"><h3>Directions<\/h3><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Put the olive oil and the garlic in a large cold saucepan.\u00a0 Turn the heat to low infusing the oil with the garlic.\u00a0 Cook slowly until the garlic is lightly browned.<\/li>\n<li>Crush the tomatoes by hand or with a masher to the desired consistency.\u00a0 Add these to the saucepan along with the oregano, half of the basil leaves and some salt and pepper to taste.<\/li>\n<li>Simmer until the sauce has reduced and is thick, about 20 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Finely chop the remainder of the basil leaves and add to the sauce.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a simple tomato sauce is just what you need for a dish.\u00a0 This sauce is all about the tomatoes.\u00a0 The tomatoes I use in the recipe are from Costco.\u00a0 They are San Marzano Tomatoes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,90,86,271,104,92,82,93],"tags":[118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}