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Best Meat Sauce (cheap) w/ Beer
This is how I make my pasta meat sauce, which i get many compliments on. I’m in college, so i make it cheap, and when I’m in a pinch i can make it extra cheap without sacrificing flavor. I’m going to show you how i make it when i have a full refrigerator, i.e. the beginning of the month. This means that it will be the way that i like it (HOT & SPICY), but i will tell you what to do if its your end of the month, if you don’t like it hot, or you just don’t want to spend a lot of money on a good and hearty meal.
this is a deviation of my mothers spaghetti sauce, except i think that this is better, cheaper, easier, and faster (don’t tell my mom that though)
I recommend that you buy as much of these ingredients from Costco or someplace similar.
This will cut the cost and you’ll have stuff left over to make it again. I got almost everything from Costco.
Ingredients:
- 2 large yellow onions
- 1 pack of ground meat
- 4 large Italian style sausages
- 1 jar of pasta sauce
- 2 cans of diced tomatoes
- a lot of garlic
- oil (i use olive oil but i don’t think it matters much)
These are the mandatory ingredients but I like to add:
- 2-3 large jalapenos peppers (pickled or fresh)
- 1/2-1 can of beer (i like to use Budweiser, but i used nicer beer this time)
- 2-3 bay leaves
- salt, pepper, paprika, Tabasco, anything else you like or have
[Illustrated instructions follow —TAC]