Dean Ween’s Sunday Sauce

Updated at: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 08:43:52 GMT

Step 1

Dice the big onion into bits. Take 5 cloves of the garlic and dice that too. Chop the basil up, all of it.

Step 2

Put the beef into a big ass bowl and add salt, pepper, a little bit of oregano, ½ cup of the cheese, and one raw egg

Step 3

Take 4 slices of the white bread and put it into a cereal bowl and fill it with milk

Step 4

Sautee ½ of your onion, ½ of your garlic, and one half of the basil in 2 tblsps of oil in a big pan. When the onions are translucent then it’s ready, it might take 15 minutes but wait it out

Step 5

When the onion/garlic/basil mix is finished sautéing, then dump it on the bowl of meat

Step 6

Squeeze out the milk bread and put the wrung-out milk bread into the meat bowl too

Step 7

Mix and mash meat/veggie/bread mixture up. Knead for 5 minutes then set aside.

Step 8

Add another 2 tablespoons of olive oil to a large spaghetti pot and sautee the rest of your onions, garlic and basil

Step 9

When the onions are translucent, add the three cans of tomato sauce. For every can that you pour in the pot, go to the sink and fill up half the can with water and dump it in the pot, rinsing out the remaining sauce still in the can

Step 10

sprinkle some oregano on the pot of sauce, and add a tablespoon of sugar, stir it a little, and simmer the sauce on medium low heat.

Step 11

Pour an inch of oil in the bottom of your pan and turn the burner to medium high

Step 12

Shape the meatballs in your hand to whatever size you like

Step 13

Add them to the scorching hot pan, try and not let them touch one another

Step 14

When each side is browned, remove the meatballs to some paper towels and add the next batch to your pan

Step 15

When you’re done, add your browned meatballs to the sauce.

Step 16

Brown pork chops and add to sauce

Step 17

Add ring of hot sausage to sauce

Step 18

put the empty oily pan back onto medium high heat and pour in some wine, enough to cover the bottom and then a little more

Step 19

Simmer this for a couple of minutes until the alcohol cooks off and pour into sauce

Step 20

let your sauce simmer on low heat for the next three hours and skim fat off top periodically

Step 21

Cook pasta and mix lightly with sauce

Step 22

Serve

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