I thought my momma’s RED tomato bolognese sauce would be an appropriate recipe to kick off our “Share the Love Healthy Recipes Week”!

All week long you will be seeing some fabulous recipes shared from some lovely talented bloggers.

Enjoy and don’t forget to store all your favorites on a pin board. Pinterest is a great place to keep your recipes you want to eventually make in an easy to find, organized place. You just add a pin to the picture you like and name your board to store it on.  I keep the ones I want to try on a board called “Recipes I want to make”. Then when you want to try the recipe you go to that board on pinterest and click the pic and it brings you directly to the recipe! Super easy, super quick, totally addictive!

My Mom has made homemade Italian tomato sauce every single Sunday of my entire life. I grew up never eating any sauce in restaurants…… they just couldn’t compare. Many store bought sauces were always so…so…so….unbearably sweet I just never liked them. I love my mom’s sauce and it will always be the best I’ve ever had! So  of course I had to I ASK if I could use her recipe and thankfully she was kind enough to agree, which means yeah for us!

I share this recipe of LOVE, this sauce that has been passed down from my grandmother to my mother and to me, serious love her folks!

I share it  with you, my readers of SFM,  because I know you will cherish it as I have. I know you will adore this sauce and never want to purchase store bought sauce again learning how easy it is to make such a mouthwatering, delicious sauce.

You can make this completely vegetarian and exclude the sausage if you like. I can’t vouch for the taste as I always make it with the sausage. If you don’t like traditionally chunky type of sauces or need to hide the onions from your kiddies I would recommend just making the sauce and then put it in a food processor to smooth out the chunkiness. The kids will never know there is onion in there, but the flavor it adds I just wouldn’t tell you to leave it out…nope, I  just can’t. I wouldn’t substitute or change this sauce in anyway. Trust me, why mess with perfect right?!

You could also spice this sauce up by adding red pepper flakes as my mom does, but with my kiddies they just won’t have it. But either way its the most perfect chunky sauce you will ever have!

Interested in a meatless version? Check out my Quick Italian Marinara Sauce!

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This was our dinner the other night, actually just the hubby and I . Kiddies had chicken thighs and PLAIN pasta.  I make this sauce weekly just for my sweetie and me.

This is the simplest and quickest sauce to top over anything! I almost hesitated to share this on my blog because of the simplicity, really. Hubby encouraged me to go ahead and post about it.  He said many people are families like us with little time and picky kiddies who would appreciate the quickness as well as the deliciousness of this simple sauce.

You see sometimes the hubby and I just want some flavor, more than the children would prefer that is. They don’t even like simple tomato sauce. Often when I make a meal, sauce is on the side and very little is used over their pasta. Being Italian I’m pretty picky about the sauce I will eat. I really don’t like any sauces that are too sweet with added sugars. Hubby and I like hearty sauces with lots of chunky bites of goodness.

As you can see from the picture, lots of chunky tomatoes, olives, and artichokes. Certain types of sauce are required for certain types of meals, but this is one of our favorites. I will be sharing my families traditional tomato sauce as soon as I get my momma’s ok to release the secret ingredients!

Purchasing sauce in a can or jar can be tricky if you are watching your sugar intake. I follow a simple rule. I won’t purchase any sauce if any type of sugar is listed within the first five ingredients.

THIS RECIPE HAS BEEN GIVEN A FACELIFT!! NEW AND IMPROVED UPDATED PHOTOS AND SOME SLIGHT ADAPTIONS!

Visit here to see the new recipe: Classic Italian Puttanesca Sauce!

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