Spaghetti Sauce

This is a large amount of sauce, but any left over sauce, freezes really well or you can cut the recipe down.

3 Tbs. olive oil (if you using hamburger, leave this out)
2 large onions diced
6-8 medium cloves of crushed garlic
1/2 teas. crushed red pepper flakes
3 (28-oz) cans crushed tomatoes
3 (29-oz) cans tomato sauce
1 1/2 (6-oz) cans tomato paste
1 1/2 teas. dried basil leaves
3/4 teas. dried oregano leaves
Salt and Pepper to taste

If you are adding meat to this sauce, start with the meat first, once it starts to cook follow the rest of th directions below.

Saute onion in oil until soft (don't brown), then add garlic (garlic burns easy so make sure you stir a lot and cook until you can really smell it and it's sort of soft, add crushed red pepper flakes and remaining ingredients. Cook on low about 1 hour, stirring often so it doesn't burn and stick to the bottom of the pot.

Hint- open all the cans while onions are cooking because once the garlic is soft and fragrant you will need to add
the sauce quickly so the garlic doesn't burn.