ground beef and sausage spaghetti sauce

Total Time: 3 hrs Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 (26 ounce) jar spaghetti sauce
• 2 (8 ounce) cans tomato sauce
• 1 red bell pepper (small to medium size)
• 1 green bell pepper (small to medium)
• 1 medium onion
• 3 -4 cloves garlic (to your liking)
• 3 -4 shallots
• fresh parsley (don't be afraid to use some)
• 1 dash dry basil
• sugar
• salt
• cracked black pepper
• 1 (4 ounce) can mushrooms
• 1 -1 1/4 lb ground beef
• 1 lb italian sweet sausage

Recipe

• 1 start by emptying all sauces into pot.
• 2 cut green and red peppers into small chunks.
• 3 add to sauce.
• 4 add mushrooms.
• 5 add a couple tablespoons sugar to cut down acid level.
• 6 add pre-cooked sausage.
• 7 i usually cook them in a crock pot the day before to remove majority of the fat.
• 8 cut into 1/2" chunks.
• 9 next dice onion.
• 10 chop both garlic and shallotts.
• 11 heat olive oil in a pan and saute garlic,onion and shallotts being careful not to burn them and cook till tender.
• 12 add salt and cracked black pepper to taste along with chopped parsley.
• 13 add to sauce.
• 14 in the same pan add groung beef and brown.
• 15 add to sauce and cook on low heat 2 to 2 1/2 hours.
• 16 serve over the pasta of your choice.
• 17 i prefer vermicelli over spaghetti.
• 18 this may seem like it takes a long time to cook but i was taught good things come to those wait.