Hi guys! Hope everyone’s doing well. I have a special recipe to share with you today, perfect for a quick and easy crockpot  marinara sauce for lunch or dinner. It’s 9 am right now, which is going to give me plenty of time to throw this together and let it cook together for about 4 hours or so. Now what I love about this recipe  is it truly is a slow cooker recipe, like, there’s no browning anything before. Not only that, but there are so many options to make it your own. If you like your marinara sauce with a little bit of meat, then you can brown up some beef to throw in there, just make sure you drain the meat before. You can throw in some mushrooms, whatever you want to add, but just how I’m making it right now it’s so quick to put together and it’s so full of flavor. It’s a family favorite, so I hope it becomes a family favorite for your family too. So let’s get started, yes? As you can see, I already have a few things chopped up and ready to go. I’ve chopped up three garlic cloves, I have all the seasonings I’m going to need out, but we’ll get to that in a second. Right now we’ll start with the foundation for the sauce, which is going to be a 28 ounce can of crushed red tomatoes in a rich puree, a 6 ounce can of tomato paste, and a 29 ounce can of tomato sauce. So far, this sounds pretty standard for a marinara sauce but we’re going to give it a little punch with a ½ cup of your favorite red wine...

See, we weren’t just talking about the idea moving in together. Um, so Parker has a really good friend who happens to be an executive producer of the Grace Daily Show. He had his friend check out my cooking channel on youtube, and he loved it.

*Sad* Well, I didn’t say no exactly. I believe my exact words were, ‘I don’t think now is a good time, and although I love you so so so SOO much, I don’t think I’m ready for this next step. Please, please PLEASE don’t hate me.’ *Pause* Something like that. *Buries her head* Everything was going so well. Grace loved me, she said the job was mine if I wanted it, Parker and I were having a nice date, and then, all the sudden...he dropped that bombshell.