| The wonderful thing about cooking is the unlimited | | | | Perhaps your first experiment will be a fabulous |
| variety you can enjoy. A Google search for italian | | | | success that your family and friends insist that you |
| pizza sauce recipes currently turns up over two million | | | | keep making. Perhaps not - and if not, after tasting it |
| result pages. Are there really two million ways to | | | | you will have an idea about what more needs to be |
| make pizza sauce? | | | | added or what you added too much of. It is usually |
| As it turns out, there is a foundation to making pizza | | | | best to add smaller amounts of something new and |
| sauce. The more typical recipes use crushed | | | | increase them over time to suit your taste. |
| tomatoes, tomato paste with herbs like garlic and basil. | | | | The best thing about this is that every recipe you |
| The specific amounts and ratios used determine the | | | | create will be yours and yours alone, limited only by the |
| overall flavor, or the basic foundation of the sauce. | | | | selection of ingredients you have on hand. Over time |
| Other ingredients can be added to further deepen the | | | | you will begin to understand that some ingredients |
| flavor. Some add chili powders or flakes to make the | | | | work better with others and this may inspire other |
| sauce sing hot while others add brown sugar or honey. | | | | choices from your pantry or while you are in the |
| Some saute onions or even potato slices and then | | | | grocery store. Once you have a crowd pleaser |
| add them (or just their juices.) Others add fennel and | | | | coming out of your oven, make sure to write the |
| other fresh herbs and some flour to thicken the sauce. | | | | recipe down so you can repeat it. |
| And of course, a little salt and pepper go a long way | | | | It is worth noting that other things will affect the flavor |
| toward adjusting the taste to suit. | | | | of the pizza and how the sauce flavors work with it. |
| One exciting method I have seen recommended is | | | | You can choose different kinds of crusts and a wide |
| what I call The Experiment. You take your leftover | | | | variety of cheeses but also your oven and the heat |
| meats, cut them into small chunks or slices and cook | | | | used will influence the flavor. This is one reason why it |
| them down so they are soft and dripping with juices. | | | | is not always possible to replicate your favorite pizza |
| Add some fresh herbs that you might have along with | | | | sauce exactly. |
| a selection of whatever flaked and powdered herbs | | | | And that is a good reason to sometimes let your |
| that you find in your cupboard. Add all this to the sauce | | | | favorite pizza place do the cooking for you. You just |
| and let it simmer to distribute the flavors. | | | | can't get Fritz's Pizza from anywhere else in the world. |