Ingredients
- Some Olive Oil
- 1 stick of butter
- 1 large yellow onion, chopped
- 3 tsps of sugar
- 1 tbsp cooking sherry
- 1 lb of ground beef I prefer 80/20 for fat content.
- 1 lb of ground sausage mild
- 4 cloves of garlic minced
- 1 28 oz can of pureed tomatoes
- 2 8 oz cans of tomato sauce
- 2 8 oz cans of tomato paste
- 2-4 cans of sliced black olives
- 1 tbsp of dried basil
- 1 tbsp of dried oregano
- 2 tsps of smoked salt
- Salt
- Pepper
Instructions
- Get a 12″ sautee pan and heat up the stick of butter and a glob (yep, glob) of olive oil over medium-high heat.
- Salt and Pepper the chopped onions to your liking. When the butter is melted, add the onions to the pan and coat them.
- Let the onions cook a bit and then add in a tsp of sugar and the cooking sherry. Continue cooking for about 5 minutes.
- Add the ground beef and ground sausage. Break up any large chunks while cokking until you see little or no pink.
- Add the chopped garlic and cook for another minute.
- Drain off the fat and juices as much as you wish. (I take out about half.)
- To the pan with the meat, add the pureed tomatoes, the tomato sauce, the tomato paste, and the olives. Mix it all up.
- Bring the sauce to a boil and then turn it down to a simmer.
- Add the basil and oregano as well as the remaining sugar and the smoked salt. Stir.
- Let simmer, covered, for at least 4 hours.
- Season to your taste as needed.
- Eat it on your favorite pasta, sprinkled with fresh parm and a bit of basil.
Notes
If you are in season for any of the ingredients, use fresh by all means!!!
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His first manuscript was composed entirely of punctuation marks and confused sketches. He's since published "Not Bukowski" (poems that don't rhyme) and "Slop and Swell from a Festering Mind" (essays so concerning that bookstores check on his wellbeing). He once spent three hours photographing a rare bird that turned out to be a plastic bag, and he's the only person banned from church bake sales for "weaponized brownies." Inheriting absurdism from Vonnegut and Adams, sprawling narratives from Irving, and weaponized failure from Moore, he writes about conflicted everymen struggling through supernatural chaos. He remains unconvinced that birds aren't surveillance drones.
More biographic lies...err...info.
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