I LOVE to cook. It’s fun, it’s relaxing, and hey, we all gotta eat, right?
So, I can’t share my absolutely favorite recipe because it is a family secret and my Bubbe will come from the beyond to wallop me in my sleep. LOL
I’ll share my second favorite meal: my dad’s spaghetti sauce.
Ingredients:
-Olive Oil
-¼ to ½ yellow onion, finely minced
-garlic, finely minced
-green pepper, finely minced
-2 small cans of Italian style tomato paste
-water
-ground beef
-Kosher salt and black pepper; extra Italian seasoning (optional)
Steps:
-Finely mince your veggies and saute them in olive oil until the onions are translucent. Add your garlic and saute until the smell of garlic permeates the air
-Add your ground beef (I use 2 pounds because my oldest eats like it’s an Olympic sport.) and break it up as you brown it; season with salt and pepper
-Add your tomato paste, fill each can with water, pour over your meat and tomato paste; mix paste into the meat
-Simmer your sauce over medium low, taste after 15 minutes and adjust seasoning as needed. If you need a little extra Italian flavor, add more seasoning. Simmer for another 15 minutes and taste again. Once your sauce tastes the way you like, allow it to simmer on low for about 30 more minutes.
-While your sauce is simmering, get your pasta water boiling and preheat your oven for your garlic bread. I prefer to make mine which is just garlic butter spread on a thick sourdough bread and then broiled until toasted on both sides.
Enjoy!
Magik Saga
Book 1
Ashira Datya
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Fae Corps Publishing
Date of Publication: May 31. 2021
ISBN: 9781666273229
ASIN: B092HSY5N5
Number of pages: 228
Word Count: 48,123
Cover Artist: JAshB Designs
Tagline: A species existing in secret, a vendetta and a curse, a clan bound by magik bound together by love.
Book Description:
A single kiss leads to passion.
A single look to destiny.
Were shifters meet their fated match in a world where magic, lust and evil collide.
Resisting Evil- Book One of the Magik Saga takes readers on a journey through tragedy and ecstasy into true love.
Excerpt:
She shivered in the cooling evening air, her hands sliding up
and down her arms, in an attempt to bring warmth to her bare skin. She wished
she had brought a jacket or at least worn a long sleeve shirt, instead of the
hunter green, silk sleeveless blouse. Green eyes scanned the parking lot,
anticipation bubbling in her belly as she waited for her date.
Glittering eyes locked on his approaching frame and she smiled.
He was so tall he looked like a Titan, and his skin was bronzed like a Spartan.
"Hi, Cole," she greeted with a smile.
"Hi, Beth,"
Cole returned, smiling at her. "Shall we?" He motioned towards the
door of Glitz and Glam, the only night club in town. It wasn't a night club in
the same sense as one would be in New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles, it was
more of a pub with a dance floor and a DJ. The lights, antique bronze sconces
were kept low, just bright enough for people to see where they were going, and
to read their menus. The walls were covered in glittery gold and silver striped
wallpaper, with matching Chinese lanterns hanging from the ceiling to give the
club a bit of a whimsical atmosphere.
Beth nodded and followed him inside where the music was
playing loudly.
"You look beautiful," Cole said into her ear before
pressing a kiss to her cheek.
"Thanks," Beth murmured, smiling at him. Her gaze
locked with his brown eyes and his stare made her shiver with anticipation for
what was to come.
There was an air of danger that surrounded Cole, a sense of
that which was forbidden that she couldn't wait to taste. She didn't know if it
was his dark profile, or if it was something else. He'd never been anything
other than a gentleman, but something just below the surface simmered, hidden
and secret.
Ashira Dayta lives in tranquil Michigan with her handsome husband, and two children. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading books of all kinds and watching the sunset over the picturesque lake she lives on. Just hours away from the lake her and her husband grew up on opposite shores of.
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