SPAGHETTI SAUCE Recipe
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Ingredients: 1 lb. ground beef ***(or make meatballs instead)
4 sausage links (or use 1/2 lb+ of ground Italian sausage)
Use a couple pork bone if you can find
1 lg. can - Tomato puree
1 lg can - Crushed tomatoes (I don't like chunky)
1 sm can of Tomato paste (up to 12 oz)
1 lg can - Tomato sauce
8+ cloves of garlic, minced
Salt (a lot), pepper, oregano, basil, parsley, thyme
(put a little water in each can to swish around to get ingredients off sides of can...pour in pot)
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Directions:In a large pot, put approximately 2 Tbsp of olive oil in the bottom. Add sausage links to brown on LOW heat (and bone/short rib if you have one). If you want meat sauce, add ground hamburg and brown after sausage has cooked for awhile. (I sometimes use 1/2 lb of ground beef and also make meatballs in separate fry pan and add when sauce is all put together.)
Add crushed tomatoes, tomato puree, tomato sauce, and tomato paste. Add crushed garlic cloves and let simmer until it comes to a soft rolling boil.
**I don't measure, so the following spices are approximate amounts.
Add 2 Tbsp of salt (or more), 1-2 Tbsp of pepper, 2 tsp of oregano, 1 Tbsp of basil, 1 Tbsp of parsley, 1/2 tsp of thyme (or rosemary)
***If you have fresh basil and parsley, use more than the dried amounts above
Grandma let it simmer from 10am until dinner at 5pm. She would stir in approximately 1/2 cup of parm cheese before serving because Bob didn't like cheese (he never knew!). I add more cheese than that because I love it! |
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Notes: Having seven children and very limited income, grandma made her sauce every single week. What amazes me, is that it was so consistent!!! We had pasta once during the week and again on Sunday. Her sauce was to DIE for, but I have never been able to totally duplicate it even though I have the recipe in her own handwriting! You kids all had the Sunday pasta experience, even if you don't remember! Eating my mom's sauce is one of my most vivid memories i have of her and our family! Bob owned an Italian restaurant before they were married (Momma Farro's in the 40's) and liked to take credit for teaching "English" mom how to make it, but rumor has it he didn't!
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