Traditional Bolognese! (Meat Sauce)

If your like me and you LOVE Italian food, this next dish will make your mouth water! Its my traditional Bolognese sauce, which can be served with a plate of eldente Angel hair pasta or some Spaghettini! (thinner than regular spaghetti) This follows along the same lines of my tomato sauce I previously posted but the obvious difference here is the ground beef and one of my *key* ingredients in making this meat sauce taste extra delicious!!! So, on a cold winter night when you feel like some comforting pasta, make this Traditional Meat Sauce and you will absolutely love it!! Heres what you need:

- 1-2 packs of *Extra lean ground beef*
- 1 White onion (chopped finely- you can use one of those small processors to chop this and the garlic finely)
- 2 medium-large sized garlic cloves
- 1 Jalepano pepper
- Key ingredient: 1 cinnamon stick (I know, your probably thinking cinnamon??? with garlic? and furthermore with ground beef? just try it, don't question it!)
- 4-5 large sized field tomatoes (strained or pureed without the skin - as previous post explains)
- half a jar of strained/pureed tomato sauce (this is different from the ready made, seasoned tomato sauce - this jar of tomatoes is just fresh tomatoes which have been picked from the fields, cleaned, peeled, and strained)
- 1 little squeeze of tomato paste
- EVOO (of course)
- S&P (season to taste)
- Fresh Basil leaves (chopped or cut by hand into the sauce once it is done cooking)

*Brown your onions, garlic and hot peppers all together unit translucent, then add in your extra lean ground beef and break it up into small, small pieces (this takes some muscle, so ask the men in your household for some help!)
*Once your ground beef is all broken up into small little pieces and you have allowed it to cook until all of it's juices have evaporated, you will add in your fresh tomatoes you strained and the half jar of pureed tomatoes with 1 squeeze of tomato paste (stir everything so that the meat becomes incorporated into the sauce)
*Season with Salt and freshly ground Black Pepper to taste, and right in the centre of your sauce pan your going to stick your cinnamon stick in and cover it up with the sauce
*Let all of these flavours and ingredients merry for about 1 hour at which point you can tear some basil leaves into the sauce and stir it all up, then boil the pasta of your choice and start serving!

Enjoy :)