Sunday Gravy

[Left Hook Tua]

Meatballs
Sweet Italian Sausages
****y Italian Sausages
Pork Chops
Pork Ribs

Season the pork heavily with salt and pepper.

Half a cup of olive oil in a pan. Use the same oil throughout.

Brown and sear real good and set aside. Doesn't have to be fully cooked inside but browned real good outside.

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[Left Hook Tua]

Bracciole

Get a thin cut of steak. Cheap cut is fine. Flank or top round is good. Pound and tenderize with a mallet.

Season both sides heavily with salt and pepper.

Add lots of minced garlic.

Slice of Prosciutto or two.

Some chopped basil and lots of chopped parsley.

Lots of Parmesan.

Roll it up and sear.

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[Theodore]

what, no balut pare?

[Left Hook Tua]

Now for the sauce.

Get 1 large onion. Yellow or sweet onion. Diced.

Lots of peeled garlic. Some people mince it, for as long as I cook the sauce, it doesn't need to be minced. Also minced garlic burns fast. Whole garlic you can saut� for a while before burning. Don't burn the garlic.

Add half of your fresh basil leaves. You want half of your basil cooked with the onions and garlic. The other half you want to add just before serving. Get the best of both worlds. Fresh basil while you eat while also the flavor of basil cooked in the sauce.

Saut� it in the leftover oil from the meats.

Add 1 can of tomato paste at the end. You want to cook the tomato paste.

Throw it all in your pot. All the oil and onions, garlic and basil.

Then deglaze the pan with half a cup of red wine and throw that in the pan too with a cup or two of water.

Mix it up with your canned tomatoes.

I originally was gonna use 6 cans of 28 oz San Marzano tomatoes but ended up adding 3 more for a total of 9. I had too much meat and needed more tomatoes.

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[Left Hook Tua]

what, no balut pare?

Throw that in too

[Left Hook Tua]

After you cook the sauce for a little bit and the sauce is boiling.

Time to add the pork and bracciole.

Leave the meatballs and sausages to the side.

You're gonna cook the pork and bracciole for 5 hours in the sauce.

Lower the flame. You want it at a very low simmer. Barely any bubbling.

Stir real good every 20-30 minutes. Sc**** the bottom when you stir. You don't want the bottom to burn, it'll ruin the entire sauce.

After 5 hours at low simmer. Take out the bracciole and fish out the pork bones. The pork will disintegrate in the sauce.

Once you get all the pork bones out. Throw in the meatballs and sausages. Put back the braciolle as well.

Simmer for another 30 minutes or for however long it takes to cook your pasta.

I made rigatoni (my choice), penne and spaghetti.

When it's time to serve, set aside all the meats on one tray and the pasta on separate trays. You want to throw some sauce on the pasta and coat it. Just enough to coat it. People who want to eat with a lot of sauce can always grab some from the pot.

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[Left Hook Tua]

I forgot to take pics of the finished product.

Once it was done, I forgot to take more pictures.

i was busy eating. LOL


Sidenote: the pork will disintegrate in the sauce after that long simmering.

If you want whole pork chops you have to set some aside after searing and not throw it in until the end.

But you need pork (with bones) simmering in the sauce for hours. You want all the pork bones to flavor the gravy.

[kara]

what, no balut pare?

I need to move to Left's on Sundays!

[Zaroku]

Bracciole

Get a thin cut of steak. Cheap cut is fine. Flank or top round is good. Pound and tenderize with a mallet.

Season both sides heavily with salt and pepper.

Add lots of minced garlic.

Slice of Prosciutto or two.

Some chopped basil and lots of chopped parsley.

Lots of Parmesan.

Roll it up and sear.

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You livin lavish like a bosss

respect

[Left Hook Tua]

You livin lavish like a bosss

respect

My brother in law is Italian.

Talked so much crap.

"You need more salt."

"You don't put cheese in the bracciole."

"Need ground sausage in the bracciole."

"Did you put enough garlic?"

"My dad does this."

"My grandma does that."

"My mom says....."


Saw the guy go 3 rounds on the Sunday gravy that night.

Took a bunch home too.