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berettabone
02-17-2018, 11:59 AM
Looking for a good spaghetti sauce recipe. No veal. Don't care how long it has to cook. I usually use good burger meat from the butcher up nort, sweet onion. It just never turns out the way I want it. Recipes will be appreciated....................................... ..........................:)
b4uqzme
02-17-2018, 12:50 PM
All my spaghetti sauces come out of a jar. Then they get the refrigerator treatment = I throw in everything I can find. It never comes out the same twice.... Sometimes it’s good. Sometimes not so much. :o Life’s an adventure................
dustnchips
02-17-2018, 01:36 PM
Use spicy Italian sausage instead of the burger.
rumblemonkey
02-17-2018, 02:16 PM
If you have access to fresh herbs (wrong time of year) it helps. If not, dried will work too, we just use more. Lean ground beef, browned with white or yellow onion, onion salt, garlic salt, fresh ground pepper and finely diced garlic, Sausage of any type can also be added for a more meaty version, maybe some sage and rosemary, drain off liquid. add stewed tomatoes with the liquid, cut to be smaller, tomato paste, tomato sauce, (Italian version if available), coarse diced green bell pepper, green onions diced small, mushrooms diced med, tons of finely diced garlic, basil, oregano, rosemary sage, parsley, fresh ground pepper, salt, some olive oil, cover with a mesh screen, let simmer on low for at least an hour, stirring frequently without scorching. Really easy, really good-
berettabone
02-19-2018, 02:18 PM
All my spaghetti sauces come out of a jar. Then they get the refrigerator treatment = I throw in everything I can find. It never comes out the same twice.... Sometimes it’s good. Sometimes not so much. :o Life’s an adventure................ I used to use the jar method with a bit of tweeking. Then came the soy bean oil. Now, it's the first ingredient in most sauces. Tastes like $#!t. It's too expensive to keep tossing sauce out because it tastes like soy beans. I need an old time Italian mamma's sauce, meat and mushroom, that simmers for days.:p
ripley16
02-19-2018, 02:59 PM
Here's mine. Makes enough for three meals, (one lb box of spaghetti ). Use a knife or food processor on vegies but leave some chunks.
Spaghetti Sauce
Brown 2 lbs of lean hamburger, (or other meat if preferred) in a 6 quart pot.
Chop or mince one large onion, one large green pepper, two large celery stalks. You want at least 3 cups of veggie. Add to meat.
Add one 28oz tomato puree, one 15oz can of petite diced tomatoes, one 15 oz tomato sauce and two 6 oz cans of paste.
Season with tablespoon of minced garlic, a little basil, onion powder, oregano and salt to taste.
Simmer for at least an hour, stirring occasionally.
AJBert
02-19-2018, 08:48 PM
I'd give you my wife's recipe but she won't even give it to me!
She does use hot Italian deer sausage and that's about all I know.
kenemoore
02-20-2018, 09:02 PM
My wife is Italian, her family does not make sauce, they make gravy.
You get up about 4-5:00am, braise some beef, pork chops, spare ribs, chicken breast etc... Throw it all in a pot with tomato paste, diced, chopped etc.. add onions, garlic, seasonings etc...
Add Italian sausage, homemade meat balls. Let simmer for 6-8 hours, taste and season as needed.
End product is referred to as "gravy".
Your standing in Grandma's eyes, determined what kind of meat you got with your meal. Bottom dwellers got meat balls only, up one notch sausage too. Top of the heap, spare ribs. I got a spare rib once, had to repair her home heating boiler to rank that.
-Ken
Edit:
I forgot, you put one or two carrots in the gravy, remove before serving. The carrot is supposed to absorb some of the acid from the tomato products.
Tinman507
02-28-2018, 07:18 PM
I am not Italian but I play one on TV and in my kitchen. I've tried a ton of different recipes and stumbled on the one I am going to share. This takes the best part of a Sunday to prepare but worth all the time. In Philly (where I am from) this is called Sunday Gravy. Now the author is apparently very impressed with his writing abilities but suck it up, don't lose heart and keep with this. The recipe is well worth it.
Here's the link to his site.
https://spaghettisauceandmeatballs.com/
Hope you enjoy this as much as we do!
JohnR
02-28-2018, 07:28 PM
I’m addicted to pesto sauce. Costco brand is best. I’ll eat it on anything.
knkali
02-28-2018, 08:16 PM
yep..gravy
Bawanna
02-28-2018, 09:52 PM
I'm strange, I like a tomato cut up, maybe a little salt. But I hate tomato sauce, hate pizza sauce, I would outlaw it if I could.
I tolerate ketchup on fries and hot dogs, cause it seems to be the thing to do but not much else.
My mom does make a good sauce that I'm certain is tomato based, I'll have to investigate and report back.
yqtszhj
03-01-2018, 07:35 AM
I'm strange, I like a tomato cut up, maybe a little salt. But I hate tomato sauce, hate pizza sauce, I would outlaw it if I could.
I tolerate ketchup on fries and hot dogs, cause it seems to be the thing to do but not much else.
My mom does make a good sauce that I'm certain is tomato based, I'll have to investigate and report back.
Yep, that's strange. But we like you anyway so stick around. Anyone that can whittle on wood like you do is OK.;)
I do agree with the tomato with salt though. Vine ripened sweetness with a dash of salt is awesome .
JohnR
03-01-2018, 08:42 AM
I'm the opposite of Bawanna. I can't eat a raw tomato, makes me nauseous. But cooked, in a sauce, no problem.
Bawanna
03-01-2018, 09:43 AM
Well John, yqtszhj let me stay so I think we ought to let you stick around too.
I remember in my youth if I ate a hot dog or an egg I was gone for the day. Made me plumb sick. Now I can eat both with no ill effects.
Guess our bodies adapt or something.
berettabone
03-01-2018, 09:55 AM
A few years back, we had one of those city plots to grow our own veggies. We grew 3 different types of Brandywine tomatoes. Red, black, and orange. The stalks got to be about 3-4" in diameter, and I had to double stake them, because the tomatoes got so big, that the stem wouldn't hold them up. Each plant only had 2 or 3 tomatoes......huge. I could see why they call them the connoisseurs tomato. Best tomato I have ever eaten period. The wife said that they took her back to her childhood and how tomato's used to taste. Ate them like an apple, with some used for BLT's, another favorite. Keep those recipes coming.
yqtszhj
03-01-2018, 10:58 AM
Well John, yqtszhj let me stay so I think we ought to let you stick around too.
I remember in my youth if I ate a hot dog or an egg I was gone for the day. Made me plumb sick. Now I can eat both with no ill effects.
Guess our bodies adapt or something.
If you like hot dog and egg now here's one for you that you have to try. First time I had this I was in the Philippines. They don't do sausage over there like we do here for breakfast so here's how it goes. Fried egg (yolk still soft), hot dog, and fried rice (just white rice fried with a little onion and nothing else) with fresh bread slso. Thats their breakfast food.
A good american version is juicy hot dog on a bun, fried egg (yolk broken and cooked), smothered in cheddar cheese, with hot sause if you can handle it. Don't knock it till you try it.
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