utenzi

On Monday I tried that Pasta Bolognese recipe I posted about a few days ago. There's the recipe over on the left. One thing for sure, when you make a dish like this, which takes 4 hours over medium heat, you really should have your A/C on. Next time, I'll turn it on 'cause I was sweating like a little piggie (was that an Alec Baldwin reference?). It seemed at times that I was stewing myself. I can't imagine what it must be like in a commercial kitchen. Much as I like watching food prep, I'm very glad I don't do that for a living. I followed Chef Burrell's directions (from her Food Network show) implicitly. As it turns out, perhaps too carefully. But I'm getting ahead of myself. I didn't have a few of the ingredients so there was some substituting but nothing drastic. This is the ground up aromatic veggies in the pot. Yummy, huh? I used one large carrot and a little of a second, most of one large Vidalia onion, 5 stalks of celery (it was kinda s...