Manly Meat Sauce Recipes

Steps:

• In a large pot over medium-high heat, brown the ground beef and sausage until totally browned. Remove the meat from the pot with a slotted spoon and put it into a bowl. Set aside.
• Discard any grease in the pot, but do not clean the pot. Drizzle in the olive oil. When it is heated, throw in the onions and bell peppers. Stir it around for 1 1/2 minutes, and then add the garlic. Stir and cook for an additional minute.
• Pour in the wine and allow it to bubble up and reduce for about 1 1/2 minutes. Add the crushed tomatoes, marinara sauce and tomato paste. Stir to combine, and then add the sugar, salt, oregano, thyme, crushed red pepper if using and bay leaves. Stir, and then add the cooked ground beef and sausage and stir to combine. Place the lid on the pot and allow to simmer for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. Add a little water or some low-sodium broth if it needs more liquid.
• After an hour, add the minced parsley and the Parmesan rind if using (or grated Parmesan if you prefer--or both!). Stir to combine, and then put the lid back on and allow it to simmer for another 30 minutes or so. Discard the bay leaves before serving.
• Serve a big bowl of oiled noodles and the meat sauce so guests can serve themselves. Top each serving with minced parsley and grated Parmesan (or Parmesan shavings) and serve with a big piece of garlic-cheese bread.

Steps:

• 1. Also add worcestershire sauce, fresh garlic, black pepper and knorr tomato bouillon with chicken flavor to the tomato sauce in the last step, amounts as desired.
• 2. Mix all ingredients except sausage and 'kicked up tomato sauce'.
• 3. Form a rectangle with half the meat mixture on a flat pan. Arrange sausage on top and complete the meatloaf by adding and pressing the rest of the meat mixture over the sausage links.
• 4. Place the meatloaf into a greased crockpot turned to high. Mix the tomato sauce with the additional ingredients in step one and pour over the meatloaf. Cook on high for four to six hours and enjoy.

Steps:

• Heat heavy-bottomed pan over medium high heat.
• Add olive oil and crushed red pepper flakes and cook for 10 seconds.
• Add beef, onions, garlic, and seasonings.
• Brown for 5 minutes.
• Add mushrooms and cook 5 minutes more.
• Add wine and reduce for 1 minute.
• Add broth and tomatoes and reduce heat to low.
• Simmer 5 to 10 minues to combine flavors.
• Toss pasta with sauce.

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat; saute onion in hot oil until softened, about 5 minutes. Season onion with Italian seasoning; continue to saute until the herbs are fragrant, about 3 minutes more.
• Break beef into small pieces and add to the skillet; cook and stir until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Stir tomato sauce and diced tomatoes into the beef mixture; season with salt, place a lid on the skillet, reduce heat to low, and cook at a simmer for 1 hour.
• Splash wine over the mixture, stir, and simmer until thickened, about 20 minutes.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 450. Set a rack in middle level or set racks in upper and lower levels if you plan to use two baking sheets.
• 2. Slice off and discard heels of baguettes and cut them into 36 slices about 1/2 inch thick, depending on the length of the baguettes, there may be leftover bread for another use. Lay slices side by side on one or two baking sheets. Mix together meat, soy sauce, or tamari, brown sugar, and scallions in large bowl with your hands. Knead thoroughly til you have a fine paste. Make 36 meatballs about the size of a walnut. Put one in the middle of each bread slice, pressing down slightly.
• 3. Bake for 7 to 9 minutes or til meatballs and bread have become one and you can no longer hold back the hungry hordes. Avoid extra lean ground beef. The meatballs won't hold together and will dry out. don't use anything leaner than 85 percent. Add a rounded teaspoon of brown sugar if you use regular soy sauce instead of dark soy sauce. Kids love to shape the little meatballs, and like adults, they are fascinated by how each meatball and bread slice glue together.