Homemade Three-Meat Spaghetti Sauce

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serves/makes:

ready in:
2-5 hrs

ingredients

1 pound ground beef
4 sweet Italian sausage
4 hot Italian sausage (cut in half so you know which is which!)
2 large onions, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced (or more to taste)
2 cans (6 ounce size) tomato paste
2 cans (28 ounce size) crushed tomatoes
garlic salt
oregano
basil
bay leaf
black pepper

directions

Brown ground beef, drain, and set aside.

In large pot brown sausage in extra virgin olive oil. Add onion and saute until translucent. Add minced garlic, stir it around a few times and add tomato paste. Let the tomato paste caramelize, stirring occasionally as it takes the bitterness away.

Add 2 cans of water and stir until blended, then add the crushed tomatoes and ground beef. Add garlic salt, pepper, about 1 or 2 tablespoons each of basil and oregano, 1 or 2 bay leaves.

Simmer for several hours, the longer the better, until desired thickness. The hot sausage will make the sauce a bit spicy, so if you don't like it that way, use all sweet sausage.