Ultimate Spaghetti Sauce

"was given to me by father in law.. he was a cook and was proud of his recipes and his cooking ... this recipe was cook and serve by my husband at the fire station as he was a fireman ...this is a great recipe and also cook for the captain for his promotion... also freezes great..."
 
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Ready In:
3hrs 30mins
Ingredients:
19
Serves:
4-6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Trim fat from chuck and pork and grind together.
  • Brown together till just light tan, stirring constantely.
  • Add onions to meat, cook till onions are trainsparent.
  • Add the following to the meat and onions: garlic, tomato paste,tomatoes,water, celery,parsley,oregano,basil leaves,rosemary,green pepper,bay leaf, brown sugar, black pepper,salt.
  • Cook and bring to a boil stirring constantly.
  • Turn heat to simmer, keep stirring till burner reaches simmer stage and don't scorch.
  • Simmer about 3 hours stirring occasionally.
  • Serve over spaghetti.

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Reviews

  1. Best sauce ever!! Absolutely loved it.
     
  2. FANTASTIC!!! I used diced tomatoes instead of crushed tomatoes since that's what I had in my cupboard and it still turned out excellent!!! The one other change I made was doubling the brown sugar [personal preference of course]. Definitely a 5-star recipe!!! TY for posting Ann Hugo!!! :D
     
  3. This was a nice basic sauce, but I had to add huge amounts of seasonings to bring it 'up to snuff'. Given the quantities of meat and tomatoes, 1/4 tsp. of this and 1/4 tsp. of that was simply undetectable.
     
  4. This was sensational. My family loved it. I didn't have the ground chuck or lean pork so i used what I had in my freezer which was a lb of ground turkey and 1 lb. of ground pork. It was so good I can't wait to have it again for lunch, and to freeze some for those busy days. It had such a sweet flavor to it, and very very meaty which is what my hubby liked. Thanks for posting this, will be making this one again.
     
  5. Great sauce with plenty of meat. The only changes I made were to substitue red wine for the water, and I reduced the amount of salt. This was very good and the flavor was even better the next day. I froze the leftovers to use in the future.
     
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  1. FANTASTIC!!! I used diced tomatoes instead of crushed tomatoes since that's what I had in my cupboard and it still turned out excellent!!! The one other change I made was doubling the brown sugar [personal preference of course]. Definitely a 5-star recipe!!! TY for posting Ann Hugo!!! :D
     
  2. This is a delish sauce! I doubled the recipe so I could freeze a ton and I'm so glad I did. You can eat this sauce without the spaghetti. I did wine instead of water but I kept everything else the same. Thank you for posting this one! I'm going to post a picture tomorrow.
     
  3. I made this sauce yesterday, had a wonderful dinner and froze the rest for other dinners, made a second batch today because it was so good!!!! I will freeze it into dinners for the winter. I used my own tomatoes from the garden and sausage instead of pork, but otherwise exactly the same. It is an excellent recipe. Thank you. Sue H.
     
  4. If there is a better spaghetti sauce than this one on the planet, I've never had it! I thought that I had a great spaghetti sauce but this one makes mine run off into a corner and "skweak"! I made a few changes, not to make it "better" (it could hardly BE better), but just more to suit my tastes. MY changes: Italian sausage instead of regular ground pork (I get the fennel that way); 8 cloves of garlic; substituted dry red wine for the water. That's it. Next time, just as an experiment, I will add sliced black olives and sliced fresh mushrooms. Ann, you're father-in-law should have a huge shrine erected to his honor in Rome -- thank you so much for this fine recipe! big pat.
     
  5. Great spaghetti sauce, I actually enjoyed eating it in a bowl with a spoon, sans pasta. I agree with another reviewer, it's hard not to play around with a spaghetti sauce recipe--I substituted ground beef for the pork, added another 1/2 cup water, 1/2 lb. sliced mushrooms, doubled the oregano and basil, and a tablespoon of balsamic vinegar. I also put in 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of salt, rather than 1 tbsp. All these minor changes reflect personal choices --Ann, I kept thinking of your father-in-law, and hoping he didn't mind! My whole family rated it highly! Thanks a lot for sharing!
     

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home maker..fun camping,baking trying to figure out how to make bread in my three bred machines...like new kitchen gadgets... all cook books ..all recipes...favorit food is the steak t bone that husband grill for me he sears it on both sides and then pours beer over it..so tender and soso good...and all the recipes have submitted have cooked and eaten....and served my family...
 
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