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Some of you all probably argue weather it's "sauce" or "gravy". (look it up if you haven't a clue what I mean)

And then argue do you brown the meatballs and cook them the rest of the way in the sauce, or by themselves?

Cutting up spaghetti noodles (or linguine, angel hair, or any long pasta) is done for children.........they sit at the kids table.......you know, those little short somewhat human critter with no manners yet.

Yesterday's dinner. I had the urge to make some of the family's version of sugo. I was just going to post a couple of pics in the dinner thread down below, but since Dillon started this thread at an opportune moment, here goes.

Meatballs properly browning in the cast iron fry pan.



The spaghetti (or other long noodles) are put in the pot of boiling water whole, unless one is camping or living in an RV and only making a meal for oneself. Then, if using a smaller saucepan instead of a giant spaghetti pot, one is allowed to break them.

Here at the Casa di Cani Magrissimi, noodles are drained in the family colander. If this one is not as old as I am, it's close, as I cannot remember mom draining anything in other than this one. This is the remainder of the noodles after dinner as I forgot to take a picture when they were first drained. There's some broken ones, unintentional breakage, as the noodles are getting old in the pantry. They went in the pot whole though.



They are served as they were served 2 or more times a week when I was growing up. Noodles in the bowl, then sauce, pat of butter, then grated cheese, then hot pepper flakes. It is allowable to add the butter before the sauce if it is within reach and one does not want to wait for the slow poke to finish making their bowl of pasta and sauce.

Noodles are NOT stirred into the sauce around here, unless one is getting really short on the supply of sauce, then in order to stretch the remaining sauce it might be allowed, emphasis on "might". Usually I just take the sauce and let the wife put olive oil and garlic on her pasta. Yeah, I'm that way sometimes, especially when it comes to homemade sauce.

Yesterday's pot of sauce nearly filled a 9.5 qt pot, no friggen way am I cooking enough noodles to stir in there and there was no room to anyway. (I didn't get a pic of the sauce cooking ) I don't own a restaurant, so I ain't doing the Mario Battali method. And I don't want my pasta to thoroughly soak up the sauce. I had a discussion with my wife that bread is necessary to wipe up the extra sauce left once the noodles on the plate are gone. It's a rule. She didn't believe me, so I even asked my sister who replied, yep. After the plate is cleaned one is almost expected to go back and put another 1/2 cup of sauce on the plate and get another piece of bread. Sometimes, especially when one makes a proper pot of sauce, just a bowl of sauce with some bread is enough for a nice lunch. Adding the noodles right to a pot of sauce ruins that action.

When properly fixed, a bowl of spaghetti with sauce should look like this. By not mixing the noodles into the sauce, but rather putting the sauce (and a good portion of it) on top, all that goodness is allowed to coat the noodles as one draws them out with their fork and some runs into the bottom of the bowl, for the bread of course. (Spoons are for those little people at the kids table. You want to spin you pasta on a spoon, go sit at the other table)



And as I said, this ain't no restaurant, so I didn't wipe those drips on the side of the bowl with a rag. Those were cleaned up with the bread.

I'll leave you with a bit of Italian sign language. You figure out which one is appropriate for those that want to stir the dang noodles into the sauce.



PS, fatcity, no offense, if one is serving a bunch of folks at the table, that picture you posted would work too.

If you’re triggered by different pasta shapes, this’ll really blow your mind!

Cottage cheese is way better than ricotta in a baked ziti.

That looks damn good.

I don't recommend Spaghetti from Pizza Hut.

I don't recommend Spaghetti from Pizza Hut.

It’s pretty hard to fugk up spaghetti unless you burn the noodles

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wrong.

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wrong.

If baked ziti is being discussed it means that we've moved on from spaghetti,..up next!

Lasagna.

As mentioned, I mix havarti cheese in with the mozzarella in mine. I'm tempted to go to the grocery and gather up the fixings for a batch right now.

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I don't recommend Spaghetti from Pizza Hut.