Sharkboy

Someone once said to me that all I could make was Sheppard’s Pie and Spaghetti… that person didn’t know I could also make a mean Spaghetti Sauce, and he probably will never taste it either!!!

But you can.

This easy-peasy-spaghetti-sauce-recipe will show you how to:

Step 1
Take 6 to 8 large white mushrooms, slice them up and fry to taste. Then let it cool in a bowl.

Step 2
Put 6 delicious spicy sausages in the oven at 350 until fully cook, turn them around mid-way.
Then let them cool.

Step 3
Take a large stock pot, and fry 3 minced garlic cloves for 1 minute in some olive oil. Then add 2 large white onions diced and fry for approximately 3 or 4 minutes.

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Step 4
Now mix in the meat, 2 kg of lean or extra lean ground beef. Seasoned with salt and pepper to taste. Keep mixing until the meat is cooked, this might take a little bit but it’s good for your wrists.

Step 5
Dice 5 peppers, I like to mix colours and taste, so instead of just green pepper, I put in yellow, orange and red too… except when I made this one, forgot the red… idiot!
Add to fully cooked meat when ready.

Step 6
Carrots and celery, diced or sliced can also be added to the cooked meat, peppers, onions and garlic mix.

Step 7
Now you add 4 large cans of crushed tomatoes and 4 cans of beef broth. Of course, if you’re not lazy like me and can do your own, by all means. (I’m not advertising these brands, it’s just the ones they had a my local grocery store).
Mix all very well.

Step 8
Now add your diced vegetables and mix well once again. In fact, when I say mix, just always assume I mean mix well, I’m tired of repeating it.

Step 9
Now go back to your sausages and cut them in bite-sizes.

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Step 10
Now mix in your sausages to the sauce, they will replace meatballs and will have a nice spicy punch to your meal.
Also, now is the time to add your mushroom as well.
When all that is done, you put in your herbs, go crazy, you can’t go wrong, but remember to remove your Bay leaves before serving.

Step 11
Mix all ingredients until well blended and let it simmer uncovered on stove top for 2 hours. Stir regularly.

What I like to do, is turn the heat off completely, let is cool for a couple of hours, stir it nice and hard and then turn heat on again for another hour… not sure why I do this, except I saw that on a tv show once and it stuck with me, it’s just one of those cooky things.

This makes a lot of sauce, and you can freeze most of it in your nicest Tupperware for fun easy and quick dinner when you’re tired after work.

There, I can make more than Sheppard’s Pie. Pffffffffft!!!

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