Since the swelter fest has taken a break today, I decided it was for some pasta. And a fun sauce. And before we get to that can someone please tell me why people were wearing sweaters today like it was cold?
So the sauce. I took my Bolognese and changed it up. First I sautéed a huge Vidalia onion with 3 cloves of garlic in olive oil with salt in the bottom of a Dutch Oven.
Then I added some chopped fresh oregano and a couple of bay leaves off my bay leaf tree.
Then I chopped up into fairly small, yet uniform pieces two giant Portobello mushrooms. I tossed their stems – too tough.
Then I tossed in a pound of ground veal and half a pound of sweet Italian sausage no casing. Cooked it through, added about a cup of milk, cooked that off. Then I added about half a cup of Rose wine (it was what was opened), cooked that off. Then I chopped into smallish pieces but not tiny about 2/3 of a cup of roasted red sweet peppers and tossed them into the pot.
Next a can of chopped tomatoes, a can of crushed tomatoes with tomato puree, and a couple of squeezes out of an open tube of tomato paste. And oh yes, salt and pepper to taste and basil and a little more oregano.
Cooked it through for about another hour, prepared some cavatelli and introduced sauce to cavatelli.
Perfect rainy evening meal.
I just did the same thing, sort of. I warmed up some spaghetti in the microwave with some sauce that I found in the back of the fridge (been there about 8 months) but I got it good and hot to make sure that if anything was living in the sauce it wasn’t going to survive. I’ll know in 48 hours.
LOL you pain in the ass