Me and My Dog ...and My RV: Sweet spaghetti sauce recipe, finally, and a paddling Pelican

Full-timing in our 24-foot 2006 Forest River Sunseeker 2200 as of June 1, 2011, I've added solar panels and a catalytic heater so that we can camp off-grid comfortably. My dog, Katie, is great company. We traveled a bit in the Western States our first year, and visited the deserts of Arizona and most of the New Mexico State Parks the next four. This year - 2016 - I'm hoping to find a park model to buy so we will have a home base, but we'll continue to travel, too. What a life! :)

Monday, January 10, 2011

Sweet spaghetti sauce recipe, finally, and a paddling Pelican

A big WELCOME to our new Follower, Michael! Thank you for following Me and My Dog. We are anxiously waiting until we can sell (or probably lease) the condo and everything in it, and drive away in our future RV. Not now, but in the next year. Michael has four blogs on Blogger, so I'll let my readers click on your photo and see what you're up to.

Thank you for all your comments and support after my last post about meeting with my Realtor. It's just so hard to wait, you know? But... I have to be realistic, and now I have some numbers so I know where I stand. I'll keep plodding along for now, and see what's up later in the year.

A while ago I mentioned making a sweet spaghetti sauce that I loved. It was thick and sweet, just the way I like my spaghetti sauce. One of my readers asked for the recipe, and here it is finally:

If you click on the picture you can print it out and/or just read it more clearly. I did make a few changes:

1. I prefer meatless sauce, so I didn't add the ground beef (meatballs would have been great, though)

2. I increased the sugar to 2T

3. I used real onions that I minced

4. I added a little wine to taste - I always have some cheap white wine in the fridge to cook with

The comments for this recipe on-line were almost all thumbs up, but most had added or substituted things according to what they had in their kitchens. So this is a very easy recipe to work with depending on what's handy.

Here's a video of a pelican Linda and Howard (RVDreams.com) shot on their paddle trip down the Chassahowitzka River in their Sea Eagle 370 Kayak. If you right click on the video, one option is "share" so that's what I'm doing - sharing their video. Hope it's okay with Linda and Howard. I loved this cute little guy with his feet padding for all he's worth. He looks like a wind-up toy until his wings start moving.

Thanks Linda and Howard. I loved the Manatees on your blog, too, but this little Pelican is just too cute!

That's it for today. Have a wonderful evening, everyone, from Me and My Dog! : )