What I Ate: January 4, 2009

Posted 5 January, 2009 at 1:08am by Michael Chu

(Filed under: Food, What I Ate)

3 comments to What I Ate: January 4, 2009

Julius, January 11th, 2009 at 10:13 pm:

• That sauce looks delicious. It would be great if you would share the recipe.

Michael Chu, January 11th, 2009 at 11:31 pm:

• I think roughly it was 1 medium onion (diced) and 4-5 garlic cloves (minced) cooked in some oil until translucent, then ~1 lb. ground beef and about 1/2 pound Italian sausage (casings removed) cooked until just pink. Then I mixed in a can of diced tomatoes and a can of tomato paste and simmered with a 10 oz. bag of presliced cremini mushrooms until the mushrooms shrunk down in size. There might have been some more stuff in there, but I really can't remember. I think I got all the ingredients. Oh, yeah - salt and ground black pepper while I was cooking the meat.

  In case you're wondering why this is so different than the recipes I post on CFE, when I cook for myself, I'm not exact when I don't need to be (like pasta sauce; for pastries or some finicky ingredients I'll be busting out scales and measurement tools). It's really not necessary - I know what works together and what has to be measured (like the amount of flour needed if I'm making a roux - I'll measure the flour and oil so it works without my having to pay attention to how much I'm scooping). For the recipes I write though - I try to measure everything so someone else who spends the time to replicate the recipe will have a higher chance of success…

Julius, January 12th, 2009 at 3:27 pm:

• It's hard to go wrong with pasta sauce as long as one knows what's in the base and in what order to add the ingredients. Thanks for the quick turnaround time. Here's hoping to more "What I Ate".