Do you put ground meat in your spaghetti sauce? (freeze, health, tuna)
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Was just wondering. My mom used to make spaghetti sauce (and by make I mean open the jar) and put ground beef in it. I don't do that, I just use some chopped up veggies, typically onions, garlic, bell peppers, and even finely chopped carrots. Was wondering what you guys do.
PS. I do like spaghetti with meatballs, though. I probably eat it that way like 3 or 4 times a year, if i remember to get the stuff to make meatballs with. (I don't do bagged meatballs. Ugh. Good for kids, but they taste "fake" to me.) I still put at least 2 or 3 cups of some kind of vegetable in the sauce with the meatballs.
My mom always used ground beef and sometimes Italian sausage, I make meat balls with a combination of ground beef and Italian sausage, I used very few bread crumbs and an egg to hold them together. In the actual sause I use bell pepper, muchrooms, garlic and make my own sause (most of the time) In fact this is what I am fixing tomorrow night for dinner.
It's ok debz. How's the weather in Edmond today? I lived in Tulsa (8 years) just back in NJ!
you probably don't want to know the weather: it is hotter than you know what throughout OK and AR, as well as the rest of the strip from the Canadian border, down through the midwest and into the southwest.Too hot for spaghetti but we will have it anyway.
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Ex used to put Ranch Style Beans (a spicy pinto) in with ours along with hamburger. A true Texas way to stretch it and it was good.
This is why I started adding all those vegetables! My son hates veggies. But if you bury them in the sauce, they taste like "spaghetti sauce" and he would eat 'em up. It's also very good for you, adult or child.
When I voted, I said yes to beef, but actually I've also been using ground turkey as well. Usually I mix it half & half. Hubby used to always turn his nose up at the idea of turkey, but when I do it this way, he never knows what he's eaten.
My ex mother-in-law made spaghetti sauce this way. She would make her sauce and just add raw hamburger to it. It gave me the runs everytime. Imagine all the fat and grease that ends up in the sauce? I like meat or meatballs in my spaghetti sauce, but I cook it seperate, drain off the grease and then add it to the sauce.
More than likely you were eating raw hamburger. So unhealthy. Didn't anybody ever tell her what she was doing was wrong?
I put meatballs in my sauce, sausages and short ribs. I brown the sausage and short ribs first but the meatballs I put in raw during that last 40 minutes of cooking time. I simmer my sauce 6 hours. I am 1/4 Italian and most Italian's call sauce Gravy, however I do not because gravy to me is brown LOL.Never used jarred sauce.
More than likely you were eating raw hamburger. So unhealthy. Didn't anybody ever tell her what she was doing was wrong?
My mom and grandmother have been adding raw meatballs to the sauce and cooking it for years, no one ever got sick or had the runs, I still do it that way.
I don't add anything but I definitely should. I love meat sauces. My aunt makes a really find one, along with all her other homemade Italian dishes.
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