My last name has often been butchered to sound like marinara and looking at the two together, it’s no wonder.
This latest cooking video, brought to you straight from my kitchen, as always, is my version of Marinara sauce. It is a little different than traditional marinara sauce.

First I don’t add sugar. Second I use bell pepper. I personally don’t like my sauce sweet and that’s what sugar does, so to counteract the acid that is in the tomatoes, I use the natural sugars that are released from the pepper and onion. If you must add sweeteners, use natural sweeteners like the sugars in vegetables or honey. I haven’t tried fruit but there is probably the perfect fruit out there to do the trick and not overpower the sauce.

In this video I use an imersion blender to make a smooth sauce. If you don’t have one you can get one here Cooking.com or you can use a blender. Sometimes I just leave it chunky, nothing wrong with that either.

As a bonus I have included my recipe for basic meatballs. I know what you’re thinking, do you really need a recipe for that?
Probably not, but here it is anyway, besides some people have never made a meatball in their life. It’s time to start ! So simple and so good . I have broken it into two videos so that I could upload it on youtube. They have a 10 minute limit. And since I am running out of room on my server, I am going to just embed the video from you tube here.

Enjoy these two videos. To stay here at FreeCookingVideos, click the play button in the bottom left corner. If you click the center of the picture, you will be taken to youtube.

Marinara Maiorino

Meatballs Maiorino