The Cracked Wooden Spoon: Oh, to find the perfect homemade pizza sauce...

Cooking Light has the most tempting cover display of most watering Pizza Margherita on the cover of this month's issue. So, of course, I bought it. You see, you know that person who they did all those studies on to find out how to best suck in a customer to spending at least another $10 in the grocery store, or any store really, right before they are about to check out? Well, that person is me. They get me at least once a week. Glossy magazines, minty fresh gum or a tube of the last-chapstick-you'll-ever-need. You name it, I buy it in the check out aisle. Bad news, bad news. Well, not always bad news, because I think I've find the most perfect go-to homemade pizza, dough and sauce included.
Menu:
Pizza sauce (#103)
Pizza Margherita (#104)

Weekends growing up in my house normally meant three things that I absolutely love: popcorn, a trip to West Coast Video and pizza. It just went that way. My dad always made homemade popcorn on the stove, all buttery and salty, and we'd rent some awesome kid-flick. And pizza. These three things should be a part of most every weekend I think. So, prior to heading out to the a cinematic masterpiece of Iron Man 2, Pizza Margherita was in order.

I think I've spoken about my love for the Wednesday Washington Post due to the inclusiono f the Food section. Friends, I fell in love with the Food section when I first read it in a park in Adams Morgan, a freshman in college, babysitting my favorite little girl (who, I should mention, turns SEVEN this weekend). The article that did me in was about tomatoes. Reading about San Marzano tomatoes and real homemade tomato gravy and simmering and different regions in Italy, right there in the shady park on Adams Mill Rd, watching Elka clamber up the slide, I was hooked.
Well, I found a great pizza version last week. A quick simmer of the best ingredients make all the difference with this simple sauce.