Meaty-Meaty Pasta Sauce

This is a pasta sauce I made up as my husband loves MEAT. It makes a lot of sauce,so I freeze some. This is spicy and oh! so good.

• Ready In: 9 hrs
• Serves: 20

Ingredients

• 4  tablespoons olive oil
• 1  lb  sweet Italian sausage
• 1  lb hot Italian sausage
• 1  lb boneless pork ribs
• 1⁄2 lb  ground chuck
• 1⁄2 lb ground pork
• 1  cup  diced sweet onion
• 1  garlic clove, peeled and minced
• 1 (10 3/4ounce)  tomato paste
• 1⁄2 cup  chopped parsley
• 2  tablespoons  italian seasoning
• 3  tablspoon sweet basil
• 1  tablespoon salt
• 1  tablespoon pepper
• 1⁄4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 1⁄4 cup sugar
• 3 (35 ounce) cans Italian plum tomatoes
• 3 (26 ounce) jars  prego traditional  pasta sauce

Directions

1. Heat oil in large frying pan.
2. Cut the sausage into bite size pieces, and the spare ribs into 2 inch pieces.
3. Brown this meat in small batches, and remove to an 8-quart crockpot set on high.
4. Brown the rest of the meat the same way, and put in crockpot.
5. When meat is all browned, add the onions and garlic; cook for 5 minutes. Add this to crockpot also.
6. In the crockpot, with all the meat, add the tomatoes, pasta sauce, and all the seasonings.
7. Bring the sauce to a boil,then set on low.
8. I cook this on low for 8 hours.