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Ed Pawlowski

On 7/16/2017 9:01 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 7/14/2017 11:50 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Fri 14 Jul 2017 04:48:41p, jmcquown told us...
>>
>>> On 7/14/2017 7:27 PM, wrote:
>>>> Enough for tomorrow, and made up six quarts of sauce for the
>>>> freezer. The magic ingredient is a Tbsp of crushed fennel
>>>> seeds... slow cooked all day... rained all last night and raining
>>>> all today... I may never get ahead of the mowing.
>>>>
>>> I briefly thought about spaghetti sauce (not in that quantity) but
>>> I really have to be in the mood for it. Turns out I wasn't.
>>> There's crushed fennel seed in the fresh Italian sausage I buy. I
>>> never add any extra to the sauce. A little fennel seed goes a
>>> long way. YMMV.
>>>
>>> Can't change the weather, sorry.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>>
>>
>> There's nohing "magic" about crushed fennel seed, but it does taste
>> good.
>>
> Sure. But I don't want the easily overwhelming taste of fennel (tastes
> like black licorice) in spaghetti sauce. I do add something you hate to
> spaghetti sauce. Shredded zucchini.
>
> Jill

I don't like zucchini either but could probably tolerate some in the
sauce. The strong flavor would hide it