Rigatoni & Mighty Meat Sauce

Uh oh! I'm doing it again. We've had red meat everyday since last Wednesday. I know what you're thinking, but it's so yummy. Tomorrow won't be much different since I'm going to do something w/ Chorizo, yes it's pork, but Chorizo is NOT the other white meat. The good news is that the meat has been organic.

Tonight I took Marios Basic Tomato Sauce, I love Mario Batali, his dishes are just amazing, because of their simplicity. Anyway,  I had made a huge batch of the sauce last weekend.  You should definitely try this sauce it's so simple and soooo good, but be sure to use the San Marzano whole tomatoes if you do it.  Anyway, to my sauce I added 1lb of sweet Italian sausage and 1/2 lb of ground beef that I had browned and drained off the excess fat.  I simmered the meat sauce for about 30 minutes to really mesh the flavors and I served it over Rigatoni and grated fresh parmigiano reggiano over the top.  Doesn't that look yummy? As Mario would say, "Buon Appetito".

Spaghetti w/ Meatballs in Chef Mario's Basic Tomato Sauce

Simmering in the basic tomato sauce.

Not sure why, but yesterday I was craving spaghetti w/ meatballs, so I picked up some stuff at the market. I made Chef Batali's basic tomato sauce- that's found in an earlier post. The meatballs are from  All Recipes  

Finished product with grated romano cheese

and they are really good.  The meatballs turned out really moist and very flavorful, but next time I will add more garlic and parsley.  After I browned the meatballs I simmered them and cooked them through in the basic tomato sauce for a 30 minutes.  FYI, the recipe made 20 large meatballs, so you could definitely cut it in half or freeze some of the meatballs like  I did.  You should try the meatball and the basic tomato sauce recipes, very yummy.  I will definitely make the meatballs again.  Buen Appetito.