When I started out cooking dinner (for my little sister, on the nights my parents went to their weekly disco lesson), meat sauce was one of the recipes I cut my teeth on. (The other was canned-soup ...

Pasta Bolognese isn’t just a fancy name for pasta with meat sauce. Several hours of simmering on the stovetop create the sauce’s special flavor and richness. It all begins by cooking onion, carrot and ...

Ragù is an Italian sauce of chopped meat or a combination of meats and sautéed vegetables cut into a fine dice and cooked in a liquid that can be a combination of a stock, wine, tomato, milk or cream.

2. Heat the fat or olive oil in a saucepan or flameproof casserole large enough to easily fit all the ingredients, including ...

I named these chicken meatballs "Uncle T's Meatballs," after my Uncle T, who took me fishing when I was young. But the Uncle T here is universal, a tribute to every Italian-American uncle. The staff ...

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Ragu, the classic Italian pasta sauce, is actually an umbrella term for all slow-cooked meat-based pasta dishes, including Bolognese, Pugliese, and Napoletano sauces. Though it is often made with beef ...

The Italian word ragù traditionally conjures a long-simmered meat sauce rich with aromatics and tossed with pasta. But who says meat has to be the main ingredient, anyway? A few successes cooking down ...

When I started out cooking dinner (for my little sister, on the nights my parents went to their weekly disco lesson), meat sauce was one of the recipes I cut my teeth on. (The other was canned-soup ...