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Lemon Basil Marinara Sauce

Making your own marinara sauce is one of those cooking-isms that sounds a lot more complicated than it actually is. Marinara sauce is an Italian-American red sauce usually made with tomatoes, garlic, basil, herbs and onion.

Traditional Italian cuisine utilizes this sauce to complement dishes, while Americans have found use for it as a basic tomato sauce. In Italy, basic tomato sauce is not called marinara, but "salsa al pomodoro" or "pummarola."

Kitchen Shortcut: Mise en Place

I'm going to be up front with you here. Most of the time, when I'm finished cooking, my kitchen looks slightly as though it's been ransacked. When I try to clean as I go, I get distracted from the actual cooking and when that happens, things get burned, abandoned, forgotten or neglected. The majority of my culinary mistakes happened because I just wasn't paying a bit of attention.

Enter, the mise en place. 

Wine on Wednesday: Duca del Frassino Pinot Grigio

Really, I don't want to like boxed wine. Being someone who appreciates quality wine. I don't want to think wine from a box is convenient, economical or practical and I don't want to admit that I've tried it, drank it and went back for seconds. I certainly don't want to admit that I'd spend my hard-earned cash money on it. But I have, did and do. Before you judge me, raise your hand if you have:

a) a very small kitchen with little space to store your cereal, let alone wine.

b) a very small budget, with little money to buy cereal, let alone wine.

I thought so.

DIY Snack: Parmesan Almonds

Once upon a time, I was in an airport. I was hungry in said airport (why? because I'm ALWAYS hungry, that's why). So, I stopped in a charming little Hudson News boutique planning to buy a Luna bar.

"Planning to" are the operative words here because when I approached the checkout counter the clerk informed me that the bar was $3.95. Yes, four dollars for a granola bar. Honestly, does anyone like Luna bars that much?