On Wed, 29 May 2013 15:19:31 -0400, Nancy Young
> wrote:

>On 5/29/2013 3:01 PM, Helpful person wrote:
>> On May 29, 1:19 pm, Ema Nymton > wrote:
>
>>> 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'm glad that when I was growing up my 'resident Italian' was a couple
generations removed from the old country and used whatever bottle of
wine was closest to balance the sweetness. <g>

Jim