Spaghetti Sauce Recipes

[AK-49]

Does anyone have any good spaghetti sauce recipes?

[BILL K]

Does anyone have any good spaghetti sauce recipes?

Are there actually recipes? Personally, I just kind of wing it according to what I have in the fridge or coming in from the garden.
My tomatoes all get pulped in the food processor and then strained to remove the seeds. Once that's taken care of the cooking process begins and that's when the plan starts to waver. Sure, I throw in some garlic, and some basil, and even a tiny bit of oregano, but just about then is when I start gettin' creative according to what's available or what eventual use the sauce will be put to.
But, ya know what? There arent really any wrong moves. Just look at all the choices on the supermarket shelves and you can see what I mean. With, or without, an infinite amount of choices and combinations whether they be cheeses, meats, veggies, or anything else you could imagine.

[Altjaeger]

Being a bit lazy I confess to not being shy about using a good product off the shelves. I will brown a pound of burger or meatball with a diced onion before throwing in 2 jars of commercial sauce. Then depending on whats in the kitchen and my mood a little more basil or oregano, more garlic, mushrooms, maybe a bit of sugar to sweeten and even a zuchinni at times. Never is it exactly the same twice.

[LampLighter]

As far as the jars from the market, I like the regular Mariana sauce w/o all the chunk stuff, especially with little smokies or tiny meatballs like what you would get at a wedding reception. My mom used to make it from scratch-took all day. I never took the time to slow down and spend a little time in the kitchen watching how she done it.

This brings up a good point. My Brother in law is a history teacher and he started a video service where families record biographies. He did one for the D-Day museum in New Orleans. He also did one of his grandma baking bread. She bakes awsome bread and is old. They now have a step-by-step record of how to bake bread her way. I wish I had this of my mom's spagetti sauce.

[ncboman]

Spaghetti

In my younger days/years I had a penchant for going out with the really pretty ladies ... :)

... and of course each one had to show her respective cooking abilities at some point. :(

Spaghetti

One thing I learned, the prettier the girl, the worse the spaghetti. :rolleyes:

It finally got soooo repetitive, ... I learned to dislike ...

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Spaghetti. :o

ncboman

[LampLighter]

In my younger days/years I had a penchant for going out with the really pretty ladies ...




As per the "photo contest" post, it seems you married one, :o

[Greybeard]

I made this last night. Take one elk (or deer or hog) roast and cut out any ligaments and silver skins. Cut it up into cubes, say 1/2 to 1 inch. You can chop this up if you want but the cubes are just fine. Brown in a large skillet using olive oil - be generous with the olive oil as elk (and deer) do not have much fat. I had about 2 cups of cubbed meat.

Dump the browned cubes into a large pot.
-Add 1 or 2 large cans of tomatoes to the pot, juice and all. I added 2 cans, 1 can per cup of meat.
-Add chicken or beef broth to the pot - about a 4 to 1 ratio tomatoes to broth - I added about one cup broth.
-Add dry Italian spice mix (a blend of oregano, basil, thyme, and a little fennel. The ratio is 1:1:1:1/4 and I make this up myself.) to the pot (I added about 2TBS) plus salt, black pepper and some dry red pepper flakes.
-Chop up 2 to 6 garlic cloves and add to pot.
-Add dry red wine - be generous, I added at least a cup.
-Add a small can of mushrooms to the pot.

Back to the skillet with the olive oil. Chop up an onion and put this into the skillet to soften. Did you need more olive oil to prevent sticking? When the onion is soft, dump into the pot and scrap in all of the olive oil and bits of any meat that had stuck to the pan.

Bring pot to a boil and then to a simmer. Let this simmer at least one hour and up to 6 hours covered. I cooked mine 5 hours - the cubes of elk were fork tender. Then simmer with top off about 30 minutes to an hour uncovered to thicken. If it gets too thick, add more red wine or broth. You have just made a pretty good sauce. The old Italians would call this a "gravy".

Cook dry spagettii per package directions. Drain and put in a large bowl. Pour sauce over. Serve with the remaining dry red wine (or open a new bottle) and with a green salad on a seperate plate. Have some dry red pepper flakes available for those that like it hotter, plus slivers of hard Italian cheese. My wife also like to serve French or Italian bread that she warms up in the oven before hand. This served 5 people last night and there were leftovers. One guy licked his plate . Greybeard/

[Bill Gunn]

Spaghetti

In my younger days/years I had a penchant for going out with the really pretty ladies ... :)

... and of course each one had to show her respective cooking abilities at some point. :(

Spaghetti

One thing I learned, the prettier the girl, the worse the spaghetti. :rolleyes:

It finally got soooo repetitive, ... I learned to dislike ...



Spaghetti. :o

ncboman

So he took up archery....