First up, the Quickie Tomato Sauce

The best place to start is at the beginning.  Teresa's first recipe was the Quckie Tomato Sauce.  

Four ingredients, nice and easy.  Just Olive oil, a can of tomatoes, some tomato paste and some chopped basil.  Teresa didn't list salt and pepper but I went ahead and added some anyway.  I want to try to stay true to her recipes but I think you always need a little salt at least.  I did add it only after just trying her ingredients.  Sorry Teresa, it did need just a little S & P.

All in one pot, took just a couple of minutes.

10 minutes later and it looks a lot like the picture in the book, so far so good.

It took longer for the water for the spaghetti to come to a boil then it did to make the sauce.   I'd probably start the water first next time as the sauce had to sit for a bit, not that it hurt any but for the sake of time it would have just been even easier.

I used the thick spaghetti because it's what we had at the time. The sauce went great with it, can't beat that.

And Voila!  A little parmesan and Bob's your Uncle.

A quick dinner that I had no problem whipping up after work.  Just a couple of pots to wash aside from the dishes.

So, I asked the resident Chef and food snob, my husband, how he liked it and his opion was "It's a simple sauce that tastes good".  I expected worse from him since it was a Housewives recipe but there ya go. It tastes good. I'm happy to make this again, it's great if you want to whip up a nice dinner in a fairly short about of time. 

Dee's rating:  3 out of 4 Rhinestones

Snobby Husband's rating:  I said it was good

Happy New Year and Fabulicious cooking to you all!