"These were great! Easy to make and tastes wonderful. The orange zest makes these cookies taste different than our bakery. I used one heavy duty baking sheet and an air bake. I alternated these pans with parchment paper for cooking, they took 11 minutes in my oven and turned out wonderful.

"This recipe is sooo versatile. Sometimes I add Italian seasoning or vodka or both. Tomatoes have a lot of flavors that are only soluble in alcohol so adding about half a cup of vodka before you add the tomatoes and letting it reduce by half makes this recipe amazing.

Some people have commented about carrots in a tomato sauce. Carrots are a very common aromatic in cooking and add so much to red sauces. If you have carrots in the fridge put them in; they are good!

"I make this recipe about twice a month. I always use a large jalapeno with seeds and ribs. At the end I always use a potato masher to mash up the potatoes a bit to thicken it up. I sometimes don't use bacon. I use about 2 Tbs of olive oil and 1Tbs of butter instead of the bacon grease. Sometimes I add 3 carrots, sliced, to the onion & pepper mix.