This is a moving target recipe if there ever was one. This is a quick cooking sauce and does not need long simmering.\u00a0 Once the sauce is mixed and simmering, the sauce will be done in the time it takes to boil the water and cook the pasta.<\/p>\n
Meat:<\/strong><\/p>\n Veg:<\/strong><\/p>\n For sauce:<\/strong><\/p>\n Seasonings:<\/strong><\/p>\n For mushrooms:<\/strong> If adding the optional mushrooms<\/strong>, place them and a TBS of olive oil<\/strong> to the saut\u00e9 pan over medium heat. Cook for 4-8 minutes, until water<\/strong> evaporates and mushrooms<\/strong> brown. Set aside.<\/p>\n Sweat vegetables:<\/strong> In a 2-qt sauce pan, heat 1 TBS olive oil<\/strong> and sweat (see Terms) onion<\/strong> and optional green pepper<\/strong> over medium heat for 5 to 8 minutes until soft and translucent but not browned. Add garlic<\/strong>, saut\u00e9 30 seconds more. Remove to a small bowl.<\/p>\n For ground beef:<\/strong> Carefully remove any left over garlic<\/strong>, otherwise it will burn and get bitter. Turn heat up to medium-high. Add ground beef<\/strong> and brown until mostly cooked through. Reduce heat to medium.<\/p>\n For sauce: <\/strong>Return onion<\/strong> and garlic<\/strong> to pan. Add tomato sauce<\/strong>, diced tomatoes<\/strong> and optional tomato paste<\/strong>. Fill paste can with tap or sausage water<\/strong> and add. Add all seasonings and 1 TBS olive oil<\/strong>. Stir carefully. If using, add sausage<\/strong> to pan. Cover, bring to a boil. Turn heat down to low and simmer while pasta cooks.<\/p>\n Options:<\/strong><\/p>\n Go meatless with no beef or sausage. Ha ha ha. Yield: 4-6 servings Loosely based on a recipe in the Seven Seas Nantucket Cookbook. This is a moving target recipe if there ever was one. This is a quick cooking sauce and does not need long simmering.\u00a0 Once the sauce is mixed and simmering, the sauce will be done in the time it takes to boil the water and cook the pasta. Meat: 4-6Italian sausages, sweet, mild, hot or combination (optional) 1lb ground beef 8oz ground pork or ground sausage…<\/p>\n\n
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\nFor sausage:<\/strong> If adding the optional sausage<\/b>, place them in a saut\u00e9 pan over medium high heat with a cup of water<\/b>. Bring to a boil, cover and reduce to simmer. Turn sausage<\/b> over after 6 minutes, cover and cook for another 6 minutes. Pour water<\/strong> into a glass measuring cup. Return to stove, and saut\u00e9 sausage until browned on all sides 4-8 minutes. Set aside.<\/p>\n
\nReplace onion with 1 TBS Minced onion flakes.
\nReplace garlic with \u00bd tsp garlic powder (only if desperate).
\nAdjust seasonings. I always uses a heaping tsp of basil and oregano based on an eye-ball guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"