Hearty Tomato Meat Sauce

One thing we get a whole lot of from our meat share, but don't always use, is sausage. We had accumulated 5 packs over the last few months- 3 pork and 2 lamb. So we cooked them all up! The lamb, removed from the casing, went into a bobotie dish (minus the bread this time around, still just as yummy!). The pork, also removed from it's casing, went into a Tomato-Meat sauce that can be used for anything, we just had it plain like soup but it would be great on pasta, lasagna, whatever. Actually, the recipe for the sauce came from a lasagna recipe.

That's a lot of sausage


Garlic and onions

It took (Dan) a long time to remove all those sausages from their casings


Getting there!

Added in the tomatoes


We ate it plain, but I also tried it over spaghetti squash, not bad.
Next time, I think we'll go half sausage meat and half regular beef. This sauce was a little too far on the fatty side for us.

Tomato-Meat Sauce From Cooks Illustrated
1tablespoon olive oil

1medium onion , chopped fine (about 1 cup)

6medium cloves garlic , pressed through garlic press or minced (about 2 tablespoons)

1pound meatloaf mix or 1/3 pound each ground beef chuck, ground veal, and ground pork (see note)

1/2teaspoon table salt

1/2teaspoon ground black pepper

1/4cup heavy cream

1 can (28 ounces) tomato puree

1 (28-ounce) can diced tomatoes , drained