"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> On 5/29/2013 3:01 PM, Helpful person wrote:
>> On May 29, 1:19 pm, Ema Nymton > wrote:
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>>> Dice some carrots and saute those along with the chopped onion and
>>> garlic, carrots usually sweeten your sauce enough that you do not have
>>> to use sugar. Sometimes a pinch of sugar helps disguise the canned
>>> tomato flavor from tinned sauces.
>
>> Why on earth would you want to make the sauce sweet? I will never
>> understand why in the US everything needs to be sweet,
>
> I was taught to put carrots in sauce to balance any bitterness
> by Italians from Italy. I don't, but that's not the point.
>
I was taught to do it by a restaurant owner. He had a hot dog place and I
don't eat those but he also sold spaghetti and his sauce was superb!

I put them in on occasion if I think Angela or my husband need to eat more
veggies.