M's Dinner

I had an intense craving for spaghetti this evening. And since I can make it for about 75 cents, I figured it wasn't too bad an idea.

So I wandered to the store and picked up a few things. When I got back, I had all the ingredients and I got to work right away.

I am really liking the idea of making the sauce personally. I think it tastes so much better that way. I actually got the idea from Elise a couple weekends ago when she was visiting.

The idea is pretty basic, put I'll tell you what I put in mine. Basically, I just chopped up a couple carrots, a couple cloves of garlic, and fried it up with some oil in a pan. I threw in some basil and other assorted Italian-y spices. Once it was nicely browned I threw it into the pot where I had the tomato paste warming. Then I made sure that it got all nice and hot. So yeah, like I said- pretty self-explanatory and simple. But man! It was so good and it totally hit the spot.

Things I learned though: maybe frying up the carrots with the garlic beforehand was not such a great idea. Fried carrot coins smell weird and they taste strange too. I should have thrown the carrots straight into the sauce and cooked them there.