{"id":5976,"date":"2021-08-20T12:39:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T12:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thriftingwonderland.com\/post\/fall-bolognese-sauce"},"modified":"2022-01-18T15:16:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T15:16:30","slug":"fall-bolognese-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/?p=5976","title":{"rendered":"Fall Bolognese Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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Wow! It’s getting on toward Fall and it’s time to start preparing some meals for the freezer. Welcome Friends to today’s Blog. I really like to start Fall with a cleaned out freezer. Cleaned out in the sense that I have used all the meat, chicken, etc. that I haven’t used up in the last three months. I find that this way I end up with some easy meals that I can defrost quickly and get on the table in just a few minutes after being out all day in the nice Fall weather. August’s heat and humidity keep me indoors a lot more than I am when the cooler weather comes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

So, today, I put together some Bolognese Sauce and froze a good portion of it in freezer bags for some easy Fall meals.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Bolognese Sauce<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1 and 1\/2 pounds ground beef or a mixture of ground beef and ground pork. (I used 98% fat free beef for this recipe because I had that in the freezer.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1 28 oz. can diced tomatoes or two 14 oz cans. (I use salt free tomatoes)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

3 carrots<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

3 celery stalks<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1 medium size onion<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1 6oz. can tomato paste<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1 and 1\/2 cups white wine<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1 and 1\/2 cups whole milk<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1 tablespoon olive oil<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1 tablespoon butter<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

salt and pepper to taste<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Assemble your ingredients so you make sure you have everything needed on hand. Defrost your meat, if frozen.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I use a food processor when chopping lots of veggies. I added onion, carrots and celery to the food processor as I cut them up and when everything was in the processor I pulsed until the veggies were minced.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The next step is to add about 1 tablespoon of olive oil and 1 tablespoon of butter to a large pan. Set the heat at medium. When the butter is melted add the vegetables to the pan and cook until softened, about 6 minutes. Do not brown.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Add your meat to the same pan and brown. I’m showing you the meat separately so you can see the browning clearly.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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This is what you will see when the meat is browned with the vegetables. I like to drain any excess fat from the pan at this point in the cooking process.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Next, add 1 and 1\/2 cups of whole milk to the pan and bring to a simmer. Cook about 14 minutes until most of the liquid has been evaporated.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Then add 1 and 1\/2 cups of white wine to the pan. Allow the wine to evaporate (about 14 minutes). Keep the sauce at a simmer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Next add your tomatoes with the juice and your tomato paste. Stir until incorporated.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Keep the sauce at a simmer and cook for about three hours. You want the sauce to thicken as the remaining liquid evaporates. You will be left with a thick, tasty sauce in time for dinner. At about 1 hour I taste the sauce and add some salt and pepper. I do the same at about 2 hours, adjusting for our tastes and then one final adjustment before serving.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Cook your pasta in a large pot of boiling water with salt according to package directions.<\/p>\n

Serve in a pasta bowl with some parmesan cheese and dinner is ready. I usually add an accompanying green salad and a glass of red wine. Allow the remaining sauce to cool and then divide into freezer bags and store in your freezer for a quick meal on a cool Fall day. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow! It’s getting on toward Fall and it’s time to start preparing some meals for the freezer. Welcome Friends to today’s Blog. I really like to start Fall with a cleaned out freezer. Cleaned out in the sense that I have used all the meat, chicken, etc. that I haven’t used up in the last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70469586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23207],"tags":[2832],"class_list":["post-5976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetarian","tag-recipes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ziaG-1yo","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70469586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16997,"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions\/16997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}