No Smoking Spaghetti Sauce

Italian sausage, stewed tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, mushrooms, diced green pepper, garlic and oregano all simmered for an hour. Served over spaghetti, with a nice green salad and fresh bread. Not nearly as good as my sauce, but effortless by comparison. In the old days, before Alice, my go-to Monday meal was always spaghetti with meatballs (also known as Meatball Monday) so this fit in well. Sorry the portion in the picture looks so skimpy, I was half done eating before I realized I forgot to take a photo!

Episode Note: "Where There's Smoke" World's collide when Carol joins an anti-teen smoking organization and Greg is enticed to try cigarettes on the same day. Greg is taking a drag with his buddy Tommy Johnson when  Jan and Cindy catch him in the act. They rat him out to the 'rents and after a very long anti-smoking lecture he promises that he didn't like it and will never do it again. Very shortly theresfter, when Carol is hosting a meeting of the no smokers, including Tommy's mother who is spearheading the group, Greg and Tommy come home from school. When Greg takes off his varsity jacket a pack of cigarettes fall out of the pocket. Greg swears they aren't his (he was just holding them for a friend), but Tommy's mother gets all self-righteous and throws Carol off the committee. Later, Alice discoveres that the jacket wasn't Greg's, as she had recently sewed up a rip in his. It is revealed that the jacket and the smokes belong to Tommy, who is then forced to come clean with his mother in front of the Brady's Let's just say it was probably not Mrs. Johnson's finest hour. Greg's friendship with Tommy was clearly sending the wrong (smoke) signal.