Natale Family Sauce Recipe

Ingredients (for sauce & meat/eggs)

3 (28 oz) cans tomatoes
3 cans tomato paste
3 cans of water to each can of paste
salt, pepper, and oregano

3 pounds beef
6 sausage
hard boiled eggs
3 eggs (raw)
Romano cheese
Bread crumbs


Directions

Meatballs:
Mix beef, 3 eggs, handful of breadcrumbs and Romano cheese, salt & pepper, parsley. Makes 35 meatballs. Brown in skillet with olive oil, a little garlic, salt & pepper.

Sauce:
(Grammy's notes: you can use 1 can whole tomatoes, put in blender 10 seconds plus 2 cans crushed tomatoes).
Mix tomatoes, water and spices. Cook on low at least 3 hours with meat, sausage and hard-boiled eggs.

Bubba's Eggplant

Ingredients:
Eggplant
Salt & Pepper
Romano Cheese
Tomato Sauce

Directions
Cut ends of eggplant then peel
Slice paper thin and rinse
Lay out the eggplant on table/counter on paper towel
Sprinkle with salt
Let sit 30 minutes to get out the bitterness
(you will see little brown spots develop)
Rinse with cold water and put on a plate
Keep patting with paper towel.

Lay eggplant on a new layer of paper towel, salt again and let sit. Rinse.
Thin in a large pan, add olive oil and cook until brown (almost burnt)
Add oil as it is soaked up (will soak up more at first)
Then in a casserole, layer eggplant, Romano grated cheese and sauce.
Repeat until done.

Jen's Notes: I have the recipe card for this recipe in my Grandmother's handwriting, but it is my Grandfather's Family's (Natale) recipe. (I will post the scanned version too).

It takes a long time to prepare the eggplant and because of that we usually only serve this dish a few times a year, so it is a huge treat. But I can tell you its worth it. I cook eggplant a lot now and it tastes different when you process it this way. Take the time and try this one. And please don't add mozzarella. You don't need it. This isn't eggplant parmesan. It's better!

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Grammy's Bread Pudding

2 Cups milk
1/4 tsp salt
4 tlbs butter
1 tsp cinnamon
2 eggs
1/2 cups sugar
3 cups cubed bread or 6 slices of bread
1/2 cup raisans

Put Butter and milk in pan and bring to almost a boil take off stove
then in measure cup mix the eggs and the cinnamon sugar and salt then pour in the milk mixture

Put bread and raisans in a 2 1/2 quart cassarole pour mixture over top
put cassarole in a pan of water in the oven

Bake 35 for 45 minutes