Let's see what the board has to offer...and based on what I know about a few posters, there might be some great 'passed down' recipes and tips. I want to up my pasta game, and would like to be more consistent with making dishes at home. I don't have a go-to sauce recipe, and I'm interested in hearing about both traditional marina sauce tips as well as some other interesting or cream based pasta sauces.

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I'd have a hard time putting down the recipe because I measure by feel and then taste.

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Do you have a baseline or set of ingredients, I picture you wouldn't be one to go overly simple...you'd probably have an interesting twist on it or addition to it?

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No, it's pretty simple.

Olive oil
Chopped garlic
Chopped onions
Tomato Paste
Water
Salt
Black Pepper
Sugar
Basil


It can be dolled up from there with meat, bones, red wine, crushed red pepper, etc. If I had a lot of time I would use whole tomatoes instead of paste.

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Cant your wife document each step with some pics?

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Two 32 oz cans of tomato puree (or diced tomatoes, your call)
Two 8 oz cans of tomato paste
1 lb of ground Italian Sausage (Turkey Italian if you'd prefer)
1 diced onion
Italian Seasoning
Diced Garlic (liberal with it)
Cinnamon


Brown the sausage and onions, then add the rest of the ingredients (also fill each puree and paste can with water and add as well, so 10 cups of water) and simmer.

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Saute a mix of ground beef and italian sausage (a shitload) with onions (2 medium) and garlic (a shitload), drain some of the grease, add some flour and thicken
Add 2 large cans of tomato sauce, 2 large cans of tomato paste, 2 big cans of the peeled plum tomatoes, worcestershire sauce, sugar, a good mix of basil, onion powder, garlic powder, and one of those italian herb mixes, a bay leaf, some beef broth, and let it simmer on medium-low for about 3 hours or so until it thickens...stirring often

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Next time.

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Nice, will try this one out in the next few weeks.

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I see the light in you
Oh, can you dig in my soul?
Could you smell my whole...
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It's pretty much measure to taste...I forgot to note, when you start the beef/sausage, make sure to use olive oil.

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Whatever sauce you pick, cook it for several hours.

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Any marinara is always better if you add a Hershey's kiss.

Sunday Sauces

Sweet Italian sausage
Meatballs – meatloaf mix breadcrumbs cream egg parm cheese garlic spices salt pepper
Braciole pound flank steak fill with a mixture of olive oil cheese breadcrumbs spices garlic (sometimes prosciutto) secure with toothpicks
Chopped onion
Chopped garlic
Crushed tomatoes 2 cans
Tomato Puree 2 cans
Tomato Juice 64 oz
Tomato paste 12 oz
Parsley
Basil
Oregano
Add sugar or baking soda to cut acid.

In a large stock pot heat a little oil saute onions and add garlic at the end til fragrent. Add tomato products til it boils then put on simmer.
While it’s heating, Brown meats in batches in a pan deglaze with a little white wine or broth after fond forms from time to time. Meatballs are best done last so they don’t break.

We also make another one the same way with necks, pancetta, and chuck, no oregano and add pepper flakes.


Marinara
Olive oil, 2 cloves of garlic, 12 roma tomatoes peeled seeded and chopped or 32oz can of diced tomatoes, 1 tbs tomato paste, sea salt, pepper, fresh basil about 2 tbs or so. Simmer until the consistency you like.


Sauce1/4 cup onion
2-3 ribs of diced celery

add 2 cloves of chopped garlic for 30 secs or til fragrent

Brown
Pack of italian sausage - bulk or casing removed
1lb ground beef

add
1 can (14 oz) diced tomatoes
12 oz tomato paste
big can (28 oz?) crushed tomatoes
64 oz tomato juice

Bring to a boil. Then add
1 tsp + dried basil
1 tsp + dried oregano
1/8 tsp pepper
salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp + dried parsley

Simmer until the thickness you desire.

I made spaghetti tonight and couldn't get the thought of a Hershey's kiss out of my head.

Jerks.

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these sound great. I may have to try one this weekend.

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This Michael Symon guy has good recipes for practically everything.

https://abc.go.com/shows/the-chew/recip ... hael-symon

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He does. I've used his Carnivore cookbook a lot. Still, I don't know about a Greek grandma's Sunday gravy. Without looking I'm gonna guess it has cinnamon in it.

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I can't remember the last time I had homemade red sauce.

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This is a great, quick weeknight recipe for pasta in a creamy tomato sauce with Italian sausage: https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/farfalle-with-sausage-tomatoes-and-cream-233707.

You can make it in less than an hour (prep and cooking time included), and it is a big hit with people of all palate types and ages.

Note that this recipe comes from Epicurious, which is one of the better cooking sites around (along with others like Serious Eats, America's Test Kitchen, Cook's Illustrated, etc). If you go searching for other dishes on the site, only choose recipes that have ratings of 3.5 or 4 stars based on a minimum of ten reviews (unless you're feeling confident). If you want to seriously expand your knowledge of Italian cooking, the writing of Marcella Hazan is generally considered indispensable.

A less traditional and more complicated pasta recipe that I like is this great cheesy chicken & mushroom lasagna, which works very well in combination with leftovers from roasted chicken: https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/cheesy-chicken-and-mushroom-lasagne-351914. Everyone I've made it for raves about it.

As for more complicated and slow-cooking red sauce recipes, I'm kind of like JORR in that I improvise a lot when I'm making bolognese or plain old spaghetti and meatballs. My dishes tend to incorporate a lot of sauteed onions and garlic, a lot of canned whole San Marzano tomatoes, high quality tomato paste, beef stock (preferably homemade or freshly made from a good butcher's shop), beef bones, red wine, etc.

I also make killer meatballs using simple ground beef, homemade bread crumbs, whole milk, egg yolks, high quality parmigiano-reggiano, pressed garlic, a tiny bit of onions, and chopped parsley. In my opinion, the key to making good meatballs is ensuring that the mix of all these ingredients is "light", so you've got to use a high percentage of bread crumbs and/or bread soaked in milk (I tend to use both). You can feel when the mix is just right--everything holds together, but the meat almost has the elasticity of a bread dough. Before dropping the meatballs into my sauce where they simmer for about 20-30 minutes, I brown them in a cast iron pan.

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large can whole tomatoes
half stick butter
half large onion uncut

cook in pot over low one hour. remove onion. serve with freshly grated parm

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Telling IMU to "brown the sausage" is like telling a fish to swim.

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Jesus Christ! Where's the fuckin' garlic and spices? Do you serve it with Wonder Bread?

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Egg noodles and Velveeta

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I was getting all worked up with the recipes but thankfully Hatchetman's post proved to be the saltpeter I needed.

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wife text me we're having pasta for dinner tonight...

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