so one night a week Jules and I throw axes in the backyard ax throwing lead so
we need something that's easy to cook delicious easy to eat and will give us
the fuel we need to win welcome friends welcome back to the kitchen today where
you are going to do one of those super simple one pot pasta dishes that it will
have dinner on the table in no time so I've got a heavy Dutch oven here I've
put it on to sort of medium-high heat and I'm just gonna put a little bit of
oil on the bottom not a whole lot just to lubricate the ground beef as it
begins to cook so this heats up really quickly its induction so in goes the
ground beef and we're just gonna break it up a little bit and let it brown off
now over here I have like a mirepoix or sofrito and it's just some celery bell
pepper carrot garlic and onion and I'm just going to put this into a food
processor and I want to process this down until it's fairly fine okay looks
like the beef is browned pretty nicely so let's get the sofrito into the pan
and we just want to cook the vegetable down until it loses quite a bit of its
moisture so stir it in pull up some of the fonz from the bottom of the pan now
that doesn't take long at all so in goes some spices I've got some salt oregano
and red pepper flakes I'm just gonna stir those in I'm gonna add a little bit
of black pepper to just because I like putting it in almost everything next is
a can of tomatoes and these are crushed tomatoes and I'm just going to pop those
in now you could use chopped tomatoes if you want
I think the crushed ones in this dish do better but you know
it's up to you if you like something a little bit different go ahead and use
something a little bit different next in is some chicken stock and if you've got
fresh beef stock that you've made for yourself use that in my own hierarchy of
stocks that I like to use I would use beef stock if I had fresh homemade beef
stock then I would use chicken stock or then I would use store-bought chicken
stock I think store-bought beef stock for me
is way down the list I there's something about the flavor I just don't like it
and I don't know what it is I can't put my finger on it but it always just
tastes artificial to me next in is some wine and today I'm going to use red wine
I know in the past I've done a lot of videos where I've used white wine in a
sauce where we should have been using red wine or people think that we should
have been using red wine and I've used the white wine because really what I was
looking for was the acidity and the alcohol to bring out all of the other
flavors and I didn't want the white wine to add any flavor in this instance I
want the alcohol and the acidity from the wine to release flavors but I'm also
looking for the flavor of the red wine at the same time so I'm using a red and
I know it's a little bit decadent to be putting red wine in something like this
but it really does add a really nice flavor and just use a red wine that you
like to drink it doesn't have to be anything special just something that you
like to drink and of course Marmite always a good
scoop of Marmite and if you don't have Marmite Vegemite and if you don't have
Vegemite Wurster sauce and if you don't have Worcester sauce maybe some tamari
would work really well you're looking for something that will enhance the
umami flavors from the tomatoes and beef and I find this works really well for me
and then of course you could just cut right to the chase and put in a pinch of
MSG that would be fine okay now it's time for the pasta and today I'm using
fusilli and so I just put the pasta right in the
pot and we're gonna cook this sort of over a medium simmer a really nice
simmer for maybe about 15 minutes today I'm using a fusili but you could use
macaroni if you want or any pasta shape that you desire and I'm just going to
stir that in we're gonna cook this until the pasta is cooked al dente
okay the pasta has cooked through nicely the sauce is thick just a couple more
things I want to add just to kind of bring it up a little bit and one of them
is nutmeg I really like nutmeg in tomato sauces so I'm gonna grate in too much
that should be good and then I'm gonna pour it in a little bit of milk and the
milk will just bring something a little special to the sauce so maybe three
quarters to a cup of milk and this is full fat milk or 3.25%
where we live I'm gonna stir this in and just let that milk warm through and then
I think we're done hey Jules hey smells all tomato we Beefaroni hey friends Oh
Beefaroni your favorite Oh so I scoop some out and I will get glass for the
wine oh yes we're stepping it up by yes we're stepping it up we have tumblers
today for wine it's special Beefaroni so it's all cooked in one pot which makes
it Andy yeah I mean it's super simple easy cleanup so does that mean there's
some red wine in it or you just you know I thought red wine went with it there is
some red wine in it okay yeah that'll bring out some flavors
cheese joint cheese sure I even get myself of my own for work so just a
little bit cheese on top whatever kind of cheese alike hard cheese either
pecorino romano or Grana Padano or you know soft cheeses mozzarella if you want
to sprinkle mozzarella on top I think that would work really well yeah so all
right make it your own yeah yeah mate Oh meat sauce you see the joy on your face
pasta I mean it's it is what it is it is it is what it is it is yeah it is that
simple meal that just you know brings hmm brings comfort right that's what
comfort foods about brings me joy now you go put mushrooms in here if you
wanted to I didn't put any mushrooms in mm-hmm
you know there's other stuff that you could put in here to dress it up if you
want to but you don't have to all right now on its own just like this it works
really well I think it's also a meal that you could easily convert to a
vegetarian meal as well with crumbled tofu because a lot of the flavors come
from the tomatoes and the cheese's and all the other stuff so all the others
really easy to dirt well and that's where you could leave the ground beef
out and just do mushrooms yeah and the mushrooms on their own would add a lot
of flavor usually do this up a lot of ways so we've come to the end of another
video where I've shown you a recipe that you know just make it this way yeah do
whatever even change this up to make it work for you and if your rings you joy
yeah what a mentor and if you're one of those diehard people that needs to cook
the pasta separately and then stick it in the sauce then cook the pasta
separately and stick it in the sauce we're not judging just know that you
don't have to and you can do it all in one pot if if what you have is a single
burner because you are living in a condo that has a single burner yeah there's
some of those in Toronto but they don't even have an oven they've got a single
burner on the countertop or you're living you're in a dorm in college
hey you though yeah there's lots of reasons why you've only got a single
burner so you're at the stove at the cottage yeah there's only one that works
we don't we've all been there right thanks for stopping by did you
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