Sauce day tunes!
markmyers | September 7, 2009
Today was sauce day in the Myers household. Every few months we carry on Grandma Mancini’s tradition of making homemade tomato sauce. We have have two ridiculously large 32 quart pots in which we slow cook sauce all day. We normally get about 20 dinners worth of sauce (around 16 gallons / 60.5 liters) with meatballs and sausage that we freeze so we can make quick pasta dinners whenever the mood strikes. Our recipe is largely based on my Grandma’s but we adopted a few tips from my mom and Pam’s mom as well. I really like sauce day; it gives me a sense of carrying on those traditions that were important to the Mancini family.
Since we have to stay all day to watch the sauce it gives a us a great opportunity to play lots of music. Today we played Buddy Defranco and Oscar Peterson “Play George Gershwin”, Frank Sinatra “A Swingin’ Affair”, Depeche Mode “Music the Masses”, Frank Sinatra “Come Fly with Me”, Mose Allison “Best Of Mose Allison”, Enya “Watermark”, and Jane Monheit “Taking a Chance on Love”.
Last night we played Frank Sinatra “Point of No Return” and Julie London “By Myself” both of which which Muffin really liked.