Spaghetti

Spaghetti

Marcella Hazan Style

This is more of less the recipe from Marcella Hazan's "Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking"

Ingredients

  • 1 chopped onion

  • As much garlic as you like

  • 1 28oz can of whole tomatoes

  • 1 box of spaghetti noodles

  • A lot of butter

  • A lot of parmesean cheese

  • Dried basil or oregano or both

  • Red chili flakes

  • Put whatever you want to in the sauce it'll be fine. Sometimes I add tomato paste or fish sauce or heavy cream or whatever.

Instructions

  1. To make the sauce: melt some butter in a pan over medium-ish heat.

  2. Add the onion and cook until it is soft.

  3. Add the garlic and some chili flakes and stire for about 30 seconds.

  4. Add your tomatos and smash them up a bit.

  5. Let the sauce simmer for as long as you want. I usually let it go for 30 minutes or so. The barest simmer you can get.

  6. Blend it up with an immersion blender.

  7. Season it and add whatever other stuff you found in your fridge or panty. I always like to add parm, but I add other stuff too.

  8. Cook the pasta for a few minutes less than the box says to.

  9. Drain the pasta and reserve a ladle full or so of the pasta water.

  10. Toss some more butter and the pasta water into your sauce, then add the pasta.

  11. Toss the pasta in the sauce with tongs until it is saucy and good.

  12. Plate it and garnish with parm and dried basil.

Brian Lagerstrom One-Pot Style

https://www.brianlagerstrom.com/recipes/faster-better-spaghetti-amp-meat-sauce

Ingredients

  • 1lb/450g ground beef

  • 8oz/225g sausage

  • 1 onion, medium diced

  • 4 cloves garlic

  • oregano

  • red chili flake

  • tomato paste

  • beef better than bouillon

  • 1 28oz can crushed tomatoes

  • 28oz water (enough water to fill tomato can)

  • 2tsp granulated sugar

  • fresh basil, chopped

  • 12oz/340g dried pasta

  • grated parmesan

Here is a Walmart.com grocery list with all this.

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 425F

  2. Heat a dutch oven or large heavy bottomed pot over medium high. Add a bit of oil, the ground beef, and sausage, breaking the meat apart into small pieces as it cooks.

  3. When the meat begins to brown and is well broken down, stir in the onion, garlic, and a pinch of salt, making sure to scrape up any meat fond stuck to the bottom of the pot. Cover and cook for 5 minutes.

  4. After 5 minutes of cooking, stir in oregano, chile flake, and tomato paste and cook for a minute or so until tomato paste is well incorporated.

  5. Stir in bouillon and can of crushed tomatoes, water, 6-8g/1.5tsp salt, 7-8g/2tsp sugar and bring to a simmer.

  6. Stir in basil. Add in spaghetti and gently stir and press down to submerge noodles. Simmer for about 60 seconds.

  7. Carefully stir noodles again to fully submerge noodles. Transfer the pot to the oven to cook, uncovered for 16-18 min, gently stirring and submerging at 5 and 10 minutes into cooking.

  8. Taste for doneness and seasoning and adjust if necessary. Stir in grated parm.

  9. Garnish with additional parm.