4/25 -Zero Waste Recipe | Vegan Red Sauce | Easy Zero Waste and Vegan | Simple $$ Saving Recipe
Hi, I’m Mo.
Super simple and easy zero waste recipe for vegan red sauce. Inexpensive recipe that's easy, zero waste, vegan and delicious! Better than store bought!
This is my super simple vegan pasta sauce recipe. Even people who don't like to cook will like this recipe better than jarred pasta sauce. Very easy to make and lasts up to two weeks in the fridge. Longer if you freeze it! Modify the recipe for any size family or dish! Recipe with pics also on my blog! (http://www.madcatquilts.com/blog/category/Recipe)
Ingredients:
1 large can tomato puree
2-3 cloves garlic
1 small onion olive
oil salt, pepper, sugar to taste
Equipment:
knife
cutting board
pot
spoon
Fine chop garlic. Chop onions as fine as you would like, I usually do mine in a large dice. Add oils, garlic and onion to the pan over low to medium heat. Cook until the onions and garlic are soft and translucient. I try never to burn mine but if those are flavors that you like, go ahead. Add tomato puree and cook for a few minutes to warm tomatoes thru. Add sugar, salt and pepper. I add about a teaspoon of salt and pepper, and and two tablespoons of sugar. Sometimes I add less sugar, it just depends what mood I’m in. Cover and simmer over low heat for 20 -50 min depending on how thick you like your sauce. Serve over pasta, use for pizza, use in rice, or anything else you like tomato sauce on.
Using loose veg, canned tomatoes, and oil and spices in metal or glass make this a very zero waste friendly recipe. Refill the spices from a bulk section, refill the oil if possible, and reuse the can (good for seedlings if you poke a few holes in the bottom), or recycle it, to be even more zero waste.
A few notes:
- I know sugar in tomato sauce is controversial, but I like it.
- Add any herbs you like as well. I try to keep a few frozen herbs/oil ice cubes from summer and like to add these occasionally. Fresh or dried herbs work great, too. Chili flakes would also be good, I’m sure.
- I prefer my sauce to be smooth, so I use tomato puree, but if you like chunks/seeds you could use diced or whole tomatoes.
- The better the canned tomatoes you use, the better the sauce will be. Same goes for olive oil.
- This recipe usually yields about 3 meals for us, depending on how we use it. We generally get two pasta meals from it, maybe three, and then I use the last little bit when making rice or lentils (I just add sauce right to the cooking water).
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4/26 - Little Free Library Tour and Recently Acquired Books | Secondhand Books | Free Little Library
Hi, I’m Mo.
I was not expecting to need to do another recently acquired books video but I have been visiting so many little libraries lately!
I had to do another video bc if not I would have dozens of books to catch you up on soon. Many of these backlist books were from my moms stash that she is going through. We've been working through all the little libraries we can find in Monmouth Country NJ. I found a lot of booktube darlings! Secondhand books are the best! Have you done my Little Library Tag?? If you love little libraries, make sure to check it out!
Do you like LL? Where else do you love to get used books?
Little Library Tag: https://youtu.be/Xp3qIZqzeBw
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Books in this video: Too many to list!
Cats in this video: None!! Where are all the cats??
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4/28 - BookTube Spin | Spin #2 | Reaction to Rick MacDonnell's 2nd BookTube Spin | What Book Did I Get?
Hi, I’m Mo.
Here is my reaction to Rick MacDonnell's 2nd BookTube Spin. Spin #2!! Let's find out what we will read for May and June!
The rules are simple! Make a list of 20 books (number them 1-20), post them somewhere public, watch the spin video, and read the book that corresponds to the number chosen! I really loved the first BookTube Spin. The number that was called for Spin #1 was number 15. I read Dead Wake by Erik Larson. I have a whole vlog video of it here: https://youtu.be/DD3hiNMNHF8
For Spin #2, I kept the same list so I didn't make another list vid. I did read 3 books (including #15) from that list between then and now. So I will just count around my list. Did you make a new list or keep your old one? Find Rick's Spin #2 vid here: https://youtu.be/KeqrH9FFtBM
BookTube Spin 2021 List
(intimidating) 1- The Private Patient (2008) PD James
2 - Big Bang, A Novel (2019) David Bowmen
3 - Be Here Now (1971) Ram Dass
4 - Witches of Eastwick (1984) John Updike
(modern classics)
5 -Our Man in Havana (1962) Graham Greene
6 - The Pearl (1947) John Steinbeck
7 - Starship Troopers (1959) Robert Heinlein
READ - Carry On Jeeves (1925) PG Wodehouse
(mysteries/thrillers)
READ - A Murder is Announced (1950) Agatha Christie
10 - The Maltese Falcon (1929) Dashiell Hammet
11 - Rebecca (1939) Daphne De Maurier
12 - Mad Mouse (2006) Chris Grubenstein
(nonfiction)
13 - Mr Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders (1995) Lawrence Weschler
14 - Salt (2002) Mark Kurlansky
READ - Dead Wake (2015) Erik Larson
16 - Continuing the Good Life (Maine) (1979) Scott and Helen Nearing
(short stories/collections)
17 - The Salmon of Doubt (2002) Douglas Adams
18 - Flappers and Philosophers (1920) F Scott Fitzgereld
19 - Japanese Fairy Tales (1903) Edited by Philip Smith
20 - The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1961) Ernest Hemingway
Here are a few other relevant videos:
Rick’s first Booktube Spin video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc4Iz0dvGos
Rick’s first spin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6eYtA0X-2g
My Booktube Spin TBR video: https://youtu.be/UqXne0-dtWE
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Books in this video: You have to watch to find out!
Cats in this video: none!
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5/2 - TBR ASMR 8 | Lo Fi | Scratching, quick tapping, natural long nails, calm breathing, book stacking
Hi, I’m Mo.
Here is another ASMR TBR with my natural long nails, books stacking, scratching, page turning and fluttering. I like to make sure that I grow my nails out for my monthly installment of TBR ASMR!
These are 4 books that I might read in May. I'm stacking, scratching, and tapping them. Page fluttering, picture tracing, and page turning is also featured. Do you have a favorite books sound? Have you read any of these books?
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Books in this video:
Speak, Memory (1944-1966) Vladmir Nobokov
Loved Ones (1948) Evelyn Waugh
World Was One British Poets (Pub 1997) Various
Miss Savidge Moves Her House (2009) Christine Adams with Micheal McMahon
Cats in this video: Irving!
Original music by audionightlight. https://soundcloud.com/anlight/tracks
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