Militant_Vegan_
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Like smoking pipes, lol.
why do you have red flames sticking out of your head?
Like smoking pipes, lol.
I think meat sauce with ground beef has no real flavor value in spaghetti beyond the psychological value of "I'm eating a dish with meat in it". If meat is used in the sauce it should be sliced Italian sausage or better yet, diced pepperoni. Otherwise...meatballs as the meatball maintains flavor integrity.
Ideally I use 1/4 inch bias cut spicy Italian sausage seared and served on top of the sauce. I thicken the sauce with tomatoes and mushrooms and onions cooked together w/ fresh garlic.A little beef base in the sauce takes care of that problem, but for me the main reason to use sausage as well is not just the added flavor but also the alternative texture. This crap really fine grind full of water devoid of fat sausage that I increasingly find in Cascadia messes this up though.
Ideally I use 1/4 inch bias cut spicy Italian sausage seared and served on top of the sauce. I thicken the sauce with tomatoes and mushrooms and onions cooked together w/ fresh garlic.
I love love love a meatball hoagie, on a french dip roll with a good tomato sauce and sauteed green peppers over the top, but I cant get into them on my pasta. Too many bad meatballs on pasta growing up I think. Pork sausage, and I am talking about a good one with spices and fat, is what I go for. Good sausage is getting increasingly hard to find where I am though. I am tempted to start making my own now that I am retired.
Note: I have not seen a good restaurant meatball sandwich in well over a decade, I make my own, with pork sausage and ground beef, simmered in sauce.
If you can get it in your area Johnsonville Hot Italian Sausage is pretty good and blows away most other stuff I can find in the supermarket. On rare occasion I'll find a deli that makes good sausage but 99 times out of 100 they underseason it and either use too much filler or use a coarse grind which tends to get greasier than I like.
I think meat sauce with ground beef has no real flavor value in spaghetti beyond the psychological value of "I'm eating a dish with meat in it". If meat is used in the sauce it should be sliced Italian sausage or better yet, diced pepperoni. Otherwise...meatballs as the meatball maintains flavor integrity.
52 posts of meat sauce or meatballs?
That's ridiculous.
There are so many things you can do with pasta that the basic question is absurdly limiting. I mean, seriously, if you look at spaghetti as nothing more than a vehicle for tomato sauce and, possibly, meat you're missing out on a whole world of stuff.
Anyway, meatballs are supposed to be a Contorno or side dish served when the Primo or first main course will not be followed by a Secondo or second main course. They are also more a Neapolitan kind of thing as the traditional sauce from Naples is a tomato based sauce where the meat is cooked in it (not ground beef but chunks of beef, veal, lamb and, perhaps, meatballs) then removed before serving. The American restaurant style "meat sauce" with ground beef cooked in is just a quick and easy way to kind of cheat on the Neapolitan style.
I like my American style. I'm an American.
I disagree.
Then again, a lot of it comes down to what one does to the ground beef before adding it into the sauce. I mean, if you don't season it or anything and you just cook beef and drop it in the sauce, then of course it won't have all that much flavor.
Also, don't underestimate the psychological value of eating a dish with meat in it. It gives my canine teeth a chance to do what they do best, tear things apart!
nothing is more american than COPD and diabetes.
More than likely caused by the fact that too many people over the last 30 years have listened to the so called food intake experts. Low fat high carb diet seems to be the primary cause of all of these screwed up metabolism systems we see. Did you know that we exercise three times as much as we did during the seventies but we are also twice as fat?.
I don't believe you.
Americans exercise more, but not enough - FuturityPENN STATE / U. MARYLAND (US) — Americans exercise almost three times more than they did 40 years ago
I don't believe you.
The percentage of Americans who report exercising in their spare time has actually increased since 1988 (BRFSS).
Wow, didn't visit the link did you? Hilarious. :lamo