OT: What are you Watching/Listening/Drinking?

[MindzEye]

I used cherry tomatoes that looked like they needed to be used asap. Tomato paste, Onions, garlic, red wine, (I usually use Chianti but I guess I used the last of it so I went with another red), ground beef. Simmered for about 3 hours. I used some chicken broth as well. Tasted pretty awesome. But I definitely don't follow "the" traditional recipe . I mostly follow the spirit of the recipe. If you want that, follow Mindz

Yeah, there's two approaches....do you want bolognese or meat sauce. Meat sauce can be incredible unto itself, but bolognese is kind of a catch all term to some people for any meat sauce that has red wine in it. Sofrito, meat, wine, long cook.

 

[Deckie007]

Yeah, there's two approaches....do you want bolognese or meat sauce. Meat sauce can be incredible unto itself, but bolognese is kind of a catch all term to some people for any meat sauce that has red wine in it. Sofrito, meat, wine, long cook.

Yeah I've definitely made it the "right way", but don't always have the time to do it "correctly".

 

[Cal Gal]

Great notes, y'all - thank you!

I guess I'm hopelessly gonna be a meat sauce person, and I'm okay with that. If I think some meal's gonna take more than two hours to pull together, it better involve some kind of roast during which time I can do other meal prep things. Otherwise, I start dragging in the neighbors to help get it done.

 

[MindzEye]

Great notes, y'all - thank you!

I guess I'm hopelessly gonna be a meat sauce person, and I'm okay with that. If I think some meal's gonna take more than two hours to pull together, it better involve some kind of roast during which time I can do other meal prep things. Otherwise, I start dragging in the neighbors to help get it done.

The time hack is to either pressure cook it, or slow cook it. Whatever you have the equipment for. Pressure cook is about 20-30 minutes, slow cook is just to set it and leave it over night for 8 hours. I've never done the pressure cook method but I've heard of it being done. The slow cooker method is what I use a solid 50% of the time because I usually can't be bothered to start much of anything before 6-7pm.

 

[zeke]

figures mindz would stew it up to the max.

 

[MindzEye]

My bolognese > your Nonna's

 

[zeke]

My nonna wasn't much of a cook tbh.

But my nonno was amazing. As is mama.

 

[Cal Gal]

The time hack is to either pressure cook it, or slow cook it. Whatever you have the equipment for. Pressure cook is about 20-30 minutes, slow cook is just to set it and leave it over night for 8 hours. I've never done the pressure cook method but I've heard of it being done. The slow cooker method is what I use a solid 50% of the time because I usually can't be bothered to start much of anything before 6-7pm.

Terrified of pressure cookers, always have been since an unfortunate, but turned out okay, incident when I was a kid. Besides, I'm about 2.5 steps above cave woman cooking over an open flame with green branch skewers most of the time, i.e., I'm good for ridiculous-good jambalaya, but long cooking stuff? I'm gonna take a few transferable notes, and then go saddle up for an afternoon ride or something.