How do you make your spag Bol?

[spinthebottle]

Just that really?

These days I batch cook a huge pot of ragu (along with this this recipe but a bigger quantity), recuded quite thick, and freeze it in smallish portions. My "bolognese" is then a portion of the ragu with added tomatoes/passata and fresh vegetables and herbs.

@dudsville

formerbabe, as opposed to people using dolmio, you're quite right!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolognese_sauce Ingredients include a characteristic soffritto of onion, celery and carrot, different types of minced or finely chopped beef, often alongside small amounts of fatty pork. White wine, milk, and a small amount of tomato concentrate or tomatoes are added, and the dish is then gently simmered at length to produce a thick sauce.

There are variations and then there is calling any veg with any meat with pasta, bolognese .

I used to make chilli without the beans and serve it with pasta but I would never have called it bolognese to anyone except my child.

Soften onion and garlic,
Add mince,
Add chopped courgette and mushrooms,
Salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce and paprika,
Squidge of tomato puree and a tin of chopped tomatoes,
Simmer for 30 mins

The lactase in milk helps break down the meat. If you cook it for long enough you don't need it but it's a good trick if you aren't planning on cooking it for hours

Makes perfect sense, thank you. I use Quorn mince so that's passed me by but I do have a vague recollection of my grandmother adding milk now I think about it

It does help to not let random Italian grandmothers wander into your kitchen. They can keep their peace of mind, and I can chuck together a sauce and pasta in whatever heathen way that pleases me.

@InsaneProbably

It does help to not let random Italian grandmothers wander into your kitchen. They can keep their peace of mind, and I can chuck together a sauce and pasta in whatever heathen way that pleases me.

But the god of Italian grandmothers will know! You will be judged, in this life or the next!!

But the god of Italian grandmothers will know! You will be judged, in this life or the next!!

Oh dear. In that case I'm sure I'll go to nonna hell for kitchen crimes for sure. I even snap my uncooked spaghetti in half before cooking it.

Can of ratatouille in the blender. Finely chopped celery, carrot and onion. Fry all chopped veg, add garlic puree and lots of black pepper. Add pureed ratatouille then Quorn mince. Spoonful of cream at the end.

@InsaneProbably

But the god of Italian grandmothers will know! You will be judged, in this life or the next!!

Oh dear. In that case I'm sure I'll go to nonna hell for kitchen crimes for sure. I even snap my uncooked spaghetti in half before cooking it.

Snapped spaghetti? Definitely hell for you.

Snapped spaghetti? Definitely hell for you

Double hell even - you are using DRIED pasta .

Omg I also snap the spaghetti in half😈😈😈😈😈

I don't now but I used to and think the snapping is in memory of the very very long spaghetti wrapped in the blue paper. It must have been at least two feet long. Oh happy memories

My Italian MIL (aged 89 and thinks I've kidnapped her baby because we live 8 km away)
had a vegan come and stay the other week.
My, how we laughed.

@Flamingosarentreal

Fry onions, garlic, beef mince,carrots. add tomato purée ,tinned chopped tomatoes, mixed herbs, some beef stock and leave simmering for 20 minutes. Add a handful of porridge oats about 10 minutes before serving

Porridge oats????!!!!!

TheSeedsOfADream Ha ha ha, yes, that reminds me of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" - "You don't eat meat.... he don't EAT MEAT!!!" "That's OK, I cook lamb".

Yes! The first time I watched that (with dp) I was rolling and he was "what?" And I'm "this is YOU LOT, can't you see it?"

@formerbabe sorry, been MN absent for a while. Just dried pasta (usually penne as it's easiest for my ADHDer to eat. Turn slow cooker up to high, lob in pasta for the last 40-45 mins.