Sometimes you forget

[cornerofmadness]

How good it is to cook things by hand. I have two potlucks this week. I made this for one of them. The sauce is amazing and a bit silky-slick with fat.




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• Ragu alla Bolognese
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• 1 pound tagliatelle or fettucine (fresh is best. This is not served with spaghetti in Italy)
• @ 1 pound of good quality ground beef (I’m adapting from grams. It was like .7 pounds)
• 1/3 lb unsmoked pancetta — minced very finely (if you can’t find pancetta, use unsmoked bacon)
• ¼ cup carrot — finely chopped or minced
• ¼ cup celery — finely chopped or minced
• ¼ cup onion — finely chopped or minced
• 1 ounce tomato paste (or more depending on your tastes)
• 1/2 glass red or white wine
• ¾ cup fresh milk
• olive oil
• salt and pepper
1. Fry the pancetta gently in a little olive oil until it starts to release its fat. Be careful not to burn.
2. Add the vegetables and fry until the onions are transparent, stirring from time to time.
3. Add the beef and cook until it is lightly browned. When it starts to make popping noises, it’s done.
4. Add the tomato puree and the wine and mix well.
5. Add the milk, little by little until it is completely absorbed.
6. Season with salt and pepper, cover and cook very slowly for 3 to 4 hours.
7. Stir occasionally and if it looks like drying out, add a little more milk.
8. Serve with Fettuccine or Tagliatelle
9. Serve with Parmesan cheese


from the Accademia Italiana della Cucina




If you want it more diabetic friendly either eat small portions with a nice filling salad or use the Barilla plus chick pea pasta or other low-flour high protein pastas. Note: since I am making this for a group and crock potting it, I'm using gigli (rigatoni or penne would work) because the formed shape types are a bit more resilient and won't go all mushy.

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Comments

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

Hee! I loved the "where you may pet" illustration. (Om my cat, I can pet "certain death"--he loves tummy rubs.)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

my brother's cats do too. Kanda will likely mess you up but he acts like he wants them

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

That's a good-looking bolognese -- the one I've made uses three pounds of meat (beef, veal, and pork), but I've changed that up a few times (used turkey and/or chicken in place of the beef or the pork, and once I used lamb). I do need to add the pancetta (or bacon)

It's not a cheap dish, but it makes three jars, so it lasts. The one with the lamb, I took some of it and added curry and garam masala and served it over brown rice. (Italian-Indian fusion!)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

No, not particularly a cheap dish but it is tasty and makes a lot. I follow a couple of blogs straight from Italy and that's where i found this.

The lamb one sounds tasty. I made something similar but added mint for more of a Greek/Moroccan fusion

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

"Hee hee that tickles"

BWAHAHAHAHA.

Mmmm, pasta.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I liked his 'maybe'


pasta is cooking now