Pasta with home made bolognaise sauce

Andi and Becky visited came round last night to watch the latest Harry Potter film that we had rented from Lovefilm.com.

I decided to make a bolognaise sauce that we could have with some fresh pasta that was left over from the weekend.

Normally when we make a bolognaise sauce I just use lots of tomato, some dried herbs and meat which I cook for about 20 minutes. However last night I decided to havea go and making a proper bolognaise sauce.

Sarah chopped some onions for me and also some garlic. The garlic was a bit old and dry but tasted fine. We fried the onion and garlic in a pan with some extra virgin olive oil and chopped up bacon. Once the onion had turned translucient and the bacon had crisped I added the meat. We used a kilo of meat so that we could freeze some of the sauce.

While the meat was browing I crumbled two oxo cubes over the meat to give it a bit more flavour. Once the meat had browned I added a large glass of red wine and let it boil down so that there was about half a glass of liquid in the pan.

I stired in a tin of roughly chopped tomatos, half a jar of passata, two tablespoons of worcestershire sauce, a handfull of blitzed fresh bazel leaves, about 10 blitzed sundried tomatos, some oregano, black pepper, salt, paprika, cayenne pepper and thyme. Mixed this all together and let it simmer for about an hour before serving.

I think it was possibly one of the best bolognaise sauces that I have made. Everyone appeared to enjoy it.