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Experience Nutrition: 7 Minute Heirloom Tomato Pasta Sauce
This week I was excited to purchase a great Chickpea Pasta from Sonoran Pasta at the Downtown Phoenix Market and wanted to enjoy it with a quick tomato sauce.
From start-to-finish with photos and videos this took less than 30 minutes to prepare and the sauce itself cooked in 7 minutes.

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7 Minute Tomato Sauce Recipe

Serves 1
- 1 heirloom tomato, sliced
- 1 elephant garlic, minced
- ¼ cup Kalamata olives
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- Pinch sea salt
- Garnish: Green onion, sliced
SIMPLE STEPS
- Pre-heat sauté pan on medium.
- Add olive oil to bottom of pan.
- Add tomatoes and sauté for 4-5 minutes.
- Add garlic and sauté for 1 minute.
- Add olives and sauté for 4-5 minutes.
The Chickpea Pasta

Use this recipe as a guide to cook refrigerated (not boxed) chickpea pasta. Cook the pasta while the tomato sauce is cooking.

SIMPLE INGREDIENTS
- 3 ounces pasta
- ½ tsp sea salt
SIMPLE STEPS
- Pour about 4 cups of water and sea salt into a medium size pot.
- Bring water to boil.
- Add pasta to the boiling water.
- Lower to simmer.
- Simmer for 3-4 minutes.
- Drain the pasta.
PLATING
- Toss some of the pasta with the sauce.
- Plate with the tossed pasta, extra sauce, and green onion.
- Enjoy!
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November 12, 2020
A New View of Healthy Eating: Healthy Recipes by Melanie Albert: Quick & Simple Flatbread Local Tomato Sauce
by Melanie A. Albert, intuitive cooking expert, author, speaker, retreat host, Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC, Phoenix, Arizona.
This morning I was craving my sprouted spelt flatbread, so I started with activating the yeast and letting the dough rise. Honestly, my vision was to roast veggies, make a cashew nut cheese and white sauce. However, I was away from my home most of the day — shopping for superfoods and attending the Slow Food Phoenix Event: Slow Foods. Fast Friends Event. Such an energizing event around local food and sustainability, I’m so excited to get more involved in our local food movement in Phoenix.

Remembering the melt in your mouth simple Margarita Pizza that I enjoyed in Milan, Italy, so many decades ago, when I returned home in the evening I decided to make a really quick tomato sauce with garlic and sea salt for the flatbread. And, I loved it!

Three Tips to Activate Yeast “Perfectly”

Several weeks ago, when I blogged the steps to activate yeast and rise flatbread dough a few of my friends asked me how the yeast is so fluffy. My tips:
- Water Temperature. Get the water temperature in the right range, 112 -115 degrees Fahrenheit. To do this, bring water to almost a boil. Then mix that water with cooler water until the temperature is In the 112-115 degree range.
- Do not use a metal utensil to stir the yeast water. Use a wooden spoon.
- Add-in ingredients with the yeast and water. I use local Arizona honey, extra virgin olive oil, and a dash of sea salt.
Step-by-step: Dough rising.

Roll-out the dough with a rolling pin between parchment paper.

The Simple Tomato Sauce & Toppings

Ingredients
- Organic olive oil
- Tomatoes: Abby Lee Farms
- Fresh garlic
- Sea Salt
- Arugula: Blue Sky Organic Farm
- Goat cheese
- Olives
Simple Steps
- Heat saute pan on medium heat.
- Saute tomatoes and garlic for 3-5 minutes, adding sea salt after the tomatoes begin to soften.
Bake the Flatbread
- Place pizza stone into oven. Heat oven at 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Place rolled-out dough onto pizza stone.
- Increase oven temperature to 400 degrees.
- Coat top with olive oil.
- Bake for 5-7 minutes.
- Add toppings.
- Bake for 5 minutes.
- Enjoy.
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February 25, 2018
A New View of Healthy Eating: Daily Healthy Recipes by Melanie Albert: 20 Pounds of Tomatoes Part 3: Tomatoes Arizona Lemon Sauce
by Melanie A. Albert, intuitive cooking expert, author, speaker, retreat host, Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLCs
As some of you may be aware, a few times a year I have the opportunity to purchase 20 pounds of organic Campari tomatoes from McClendon’s Select for $20 US dollars at one of our local Phoenix farmers markets. This time, I was fortunate to purchase the tomatoes at our Wednesday morning Uptown Market in Phoenix, Arizona.

When purchasing the flat of tomatoes, they are quite ripe, so I really have to cook them within a day or so, or share with family and friends. With the flat of tomatoes I purchased a few weeks ago, I prepared the tomatoes 4 different ways:
1. Roasted in oven.
2. Dehydrated in dehydrator.
3. Stove-top saute with Arizona lemons.
4. Stove-top saute with veggies.
Tomatoes. Arizona Lemon Saute Sauce

Today, let’s take a look at the sautéed tomatoes with Arizona lemons.

This simple tomato sauce was inspired by our local Arizona citrus season, with so many aromatic lemons growing everywhere around the Phoenix area. Love the sharp contrast of the lemon in the sauce. After the sauce cooked and cooked, I froze it in 2-cup servings. I look forward to enjoying the Tomato Lemon Sauce with whole grains and veggies…Maybe tonight??!!!

SIMPLE INGREDIENTS
- Tomatoes
- Lemons
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Sea salt
SIMPLE STEPS
- Place tomatoes and lemons in large saute pan.
- Bring to a simmer.
- Drizzle in olive oil and a few pinches of salt.
- Saute for about 45 minutes.
Quick video…Getting started…tomatoes and lemons into the saute pan…

And, the tomatoes and lemons cooking…

Another simple idea for Tomato Saute in my cookbook, “A New View of Healthy Eating.”

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February 6, 2018
A New View of Healthy Eating: Daily Healthy Recipes by Melanie Albert: 4 Great Ways to Cook 20 Pounds of Organic Tomatoes: Part 2: Slow Roast Tomatoes
by Melanie A. Albert, intuitive cooking expert, author, speaker, Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC
Continuing the recipe blog with this week’s 20 pounds of organic tomatoes, today’s recipe guide to roast tomatoes is a simple way to very easily cook tomatoes. Chop a few veggies and roast for in the oven with tomatoes for about 1 ½ -2 hours.

This batch of tomatoes was cooked intuitively with a few ingredients from this week’s farmers’ market. And, while the tomatoes were cooking, I really enjoyed the natural sweet aromatherapy of the sauce that reminded me of an authentic Italian restaurant.

Simple Ingredients
- Tomatoes
- Red peppers
- Orange carrots
- Green onions
- Parsley
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Sea salt
Simple Steps
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Slice peppers, carrots, and green onions.
- Place all veggies in a large baking pan.
- Drizzle with olive oil.
- Add a few pinches of sea salt.
- Lightly toss the veggies.
- Roast for about 1 ½ – 2 hours, stirring and breaking down tomatoes occasionally.
This tomato sauce was so rich I enjoyed it on flatbread, and topped it with arugula, dehydrated tomatoes, and goat cheese. Enjoy your tomato sauce with flatbread, quinoa, or spiralized veggies.

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January 29, 2018
A New View of Healthy Eating: Quick Organic Tomato-Lemon Sauce Step-by-Step Videos

By Melanie A. Albert, intuitive cooking expert, author, and speaker. Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC
This week I purchased 20 pounds of organic tomatoes for only $20 from McClendon’s Select at the Uptown Farmer’s Market in Phoenix. Every time I have the opportunity to purchase these goodies I get so excited and then I immediately realize that I’ve just given myself a cooking project to squeeze into the week.

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Last night I made four different batches of tomato sauce, 3 on the stove-top and one roasted in the oven. The lemon tomato sauce was so incredible that I decided to cook another batch today and took some videos to show you the process. The sauce is still on my stove and my home is full of the lemon aromatherapy.

A quick look at the fresh ingredients in the 4 different tomato sauces.

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The cooked tomato sauces.

The first batch of tomato lemon sauce with capers, marjoram, and brown rice. This delicious and fresh dish inspired the big batch of tomato sauce that you’ll see in the step-by-step videos in today’s blog.

With these videos, learn the simple steps to make your own tomato sauce. Go out to a farmers’ market in your area, buy some fresh organic tomatoes and have fun creating your own tomato sauces.

Step 1: Mise en place. All set with the ingredients for the tomato lemon sauce.

Step 2: Getting started with the tomatoes, lemons, organic extra virgin olive oil, and Himalayan sea salt into the saute pan.

Step 3: Tomatoes are beginning to break-down in the saute pan and the lemon aromatherapy is already infusing my kitchen.

Step 4: Breakdown tomatoes with your bamboo spoon.

Step 5: Simmer the sauce for about 20-25 minutes.

Step 6: Tomatoes and lemons are simmering. So simple.

Step 7: The simple beauty of food. Today’s organic tomato lemon sauce.

Have fun shopping at your local farmers’ markets. Buy some organic tomatoes. Create your own sauces. And, share your culinary dishes with us on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/NewViewHealthyEating

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April 21, 2017