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[censored] awesome Bolognese Sauce

I eye everything so sorry no measurements. My instructions will make a lot but thats OK since it freezes well. Esp. good for making lasagna with, just on plain pasta, or homemade pizza. Also, youll need one of those old fashion table top meat grinders. Here goes...

Youll need

-6 garlic cloves
-1 1/2 lrg. red onion
-4 carrots
-4 celery stalks
-1 pound prosciutto NOT SLICED, but in a chunk cut off bone
-1/2 pound back bacon, again in a chunk, not sliced
-1/2 lean ground beef
-4 fresh tomatoes
-2 large cans of whole peeled tomatoes
-1/2 cup red wine
-salt, pepper, extra virgin olive oil

Directions

-Chop up the onions, and the garlic and set aside

-Put the carrots, celery stalks, prociutto, and back bacon through the meat grinder (in absence of meat grinder you can use a food processor or a blender but the sauce wont be as chunky and you have to do it a little bit at a time thus making it more time consuming).

-Mix the grinded carrots and celery and set aside.

-Mix the grinded prociutto and bacon and set aside.

-cut up the tomatoes and set aside

-In a large pot, heat some olive oil and throw in the onions and garlic, then the carrots and celery.

-Sautee those vegetables for a little while until theyre cooked, and then toss in the prosciutto, back bacon, and ground beef. Stir the ingedients and cook the meat through.

-Once the meat is cooked add the tomatoes (fresh and canned) into the mixture along with the salt, pepper and red wine.

-Once the sauce begins to boil set the stove to simmer and cook for several hours. Stir often, and mash the tomatoes up as you go along.