Paco's Primo Pizza Sauce

Happy 2012!!

New Year's would not be New Year's at our house without pizza in some way, shape or form.  We absolutely love it, Paco especially.

We make our own pizza dough in the bread machine (easy, peasy lemon squeezy) using the recipe that came with the machine.  I always add a few extra (wink, wink) ingredients though, to give it a extra dose of Smoochin' in the Kitchen goodness.  I add garlic powder, rosemary, italian seasoning and herbs d' provence (my especial favorite).  All of this is to taste, so play around with it.

Speaking of "to taste", we wanted to share Paco's pizza sauce with you and there are like, no measurements.  You just have to sample over and over.  (so sad, right?)

So here's Paco's Primo Pizza Sauce:

can of tomato sauce
spoonful of tomato paste (if you like thicker sauce)
about 2 T. olive oil
2 t. of granulated garlic
1/2 t. onion powder
1 T. italian seasoning
2 t. pepper
oregano to taste
basil to taste
pinch of sugar
pinch of salt
pinch of wifey (hee, hee)
1 t. crushed red pepper (if you like it a wee bit spicy, like we do)

**Again, these are all approximations.  Just play with it.  Also, when making the dough, use the garlic powder because it's finer.  But, when making the sauce, use granulated garlic because if you use the powder it clumps too easily.

Got all that?  This just gives you a rough idea of what he put's in our sauce here in our kitchen.  Really, it's one of the big reasons I fell in love with him.  The Kitchen-Aid Standing Mixer just sealed the deal all those years ago.

If you do something special to your sauce that you just love, will you share it with us?  Or if you try this, let us know!

Here's to many smooches in the kitchen for you in 2012!