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Kicked out at 16, I never really learned how to cook big meals for supper. So this is my first attempt at making a spaghetti sauce! Italian sausage, red peppers, garlic, carrot, celery, mushrooms, some spices… oh, and 5 lbs of beef. I even bought a pot just for the occasion. 😅🤤
by TheVoynich
40 Comments
Proud of you, OP : )
I’m 39 and I have never made homemade spaghetti sauce. Well done OP!
I’d eat the fuck out of that
I applaud you as the mod of both r/pasta and our own r/Food .
it looks fabulous. cooking for yourself is so wonderful and satisfying!!!
I’m going to make Marcella hazan’s bolognese tomorrow. Super simple, just takes time, and it’s so delicious.
Looks great, OP.
SooOOOOoo MEATY! 🫦
Well done.
I hope it tasted as good as you’d hoped.
If not. There are lots of us out there to give advice and encouragement.
That looks really tight OP! Whenever I make pasta sauce I always make a tone so I can freeze half for easy dinners
I hardly knew how to cook 7 years ago, now I’m obsessed. Glad you took the plunge. Keep at it, the sauce looks delicious!
Congrats, it looks delicious
Looks good bro!
Cool. Keep at it. Covid times had me learning how to cook all the foods I wanted, since we sealed ourselves into a bubble with our infant.
you gotta start somewhere, whatever the age. enjoy your food!
It looks like mine, and I cook for 40 years
That looks like some good shit. Waiting for the invite!!!
That’s a ragu bolognese! I make a pot of this every three weeks while the weather is cool. Also my first real recipe I made for myself. Congrats OP, welcome to being a home cook 🙂
Nice job! Looks like what you’ve made there is Bolognese.
This is a slippery slope. As soon as you really learn to cook and it’s a hobby, not a chore, you will bleed money buying all manner of things 😆.
It’s a seriously underrated skill and SO useful throughout your life.
Congratulations. You just ruined eating out at 90% of “Italian” restaurants. Once you have good marinara everything else is suspect.
Nice! Color looks great. Never too late to learn stuff.. also you can learn to make food better than take out which is awesome
Nice! A great basic!
You should be proud; thats a fine looking meaty sauce you got there. And excellent choice on the carrots, cutting the acidity without adding sugar. The nice thing about tomato sauces and chilis is they get better over the short term, so leftovers are always awesome.
The other lovely thing about sauces it doesn’t take much to make a world class meal. Take that sauce you made, add a little vodka and cream? BOOM excellent vodka sauce. Or that leftover pasta water? Poor some of into a pan, add an ungodly amount of peccorino and fresh cracked pepper, and you’ve got a delightful cacio e pepe.
That’s the alchemy of cooking, bud. Humble components to wonderful moments. Corny as hell. But true.
Incredible.
Nice work! Cooking can definitely be daunting. I still get nervous sometimes using a deep fryer and I’ve been cooking for decades lol 😆
I’m also proud of you.
Fuck, now I’m starving
May you come to share these times with a family that appreciates you, and you them!
Now that looks like a very tasty pot of sauce!
on my way, don’t forget some garlic bread…
That looks really good. And, if you don’t use it all, it should freeze really well.
I just made my first sauce the day. Fore thanks giving at 38! It was pretty easy. Just takes time and prep.
One question:
Where’s mine?
Congratulations! It looks amazing. I have a feeling it’s the first of many times and I love that for you
Glad to see it!
Dang bro pass the ladle 🍝
Looks really good!!!
You just made a bolognese better than I’ve ever done!
YUM! Sauce like this freezes so well! I like to do individual servings in freezer bags (or cup cubes!). Super easy quick hearty homemade meal on the fly!