{"id":78,"date":"2014-04-04T21:03:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T21:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2014-04-15T05:02:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T05:02:35","slug":"the-theology-of-making-pizza-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/the-theology-of-making-pizza-sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"the theology of making pizza sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/images2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80\" alt=\"images\" src=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/images2.jpeg\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today I made pizza sauce.<\/p>\n<p>I put two cups of organic grape tomatoes, two tablespoons tomato paste, two garlic cloves, salt, pepper, a pinch of sugar and italian seasoning into the blender and listened to the excited whir of ruby red flavor burst into a new thing.<\/p>\n<p>I poured it into a saucepan and simmered it, uncovered until it thickened and intensified. The thickness of the sauce pushed back against the wooden bowl of the spoon as I stirred. And when I licked the spoon I caught traces of caramelization that that is both sweet and tart.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I will slather it on the homemade yeasted dough my mother has made and mound it with veggies and cheese. With a lovely romaine salad, it&#8217;s what&#8217;s for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>I could have began this post with &#8220;I played with Godde today&#8221; or &#8220;today I tasted Godde&#8221; or \u00a0&#8220;today Godde fed me&#8221;. \u00a0Because using organic ingredients feels like and act of worship, honoring both creation and the Creator. Because cooking and feeding people is one of my spiritual practices. Because I find joy in creative acts. Because to taste food fresh from the earth, when I am mindful, is a sacrament.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I made pizza sauce. I put two cups of organic grape tomatoes, two tablespoons tomato paste, two garlic cloves, salt, pepper, a pinch of sugar and italian seasoning into the blender and listened to the excited whir of ruby red flavor burst into a new thing. I poured it into a saucepan and simmered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/the-theology-of-making-pizza-sauce\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the theology of making pizza sauce<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,8,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}