Pork Marinara Pasta Sauce
Pork Marinara Pasta Sauce or Pork “Gravy” as we say in New Jersey, is a pork-based tomato sauce which uses readily available ingredients and yields a deeply flavorful pasta sauce. This family recipe comes from Vito’s maternal grandmother and mother who would make it a fairly often. Oddly enough, we’ve never seen this really tasty sauce on a menu in any Italian-American restaurant.
This recipe makes a good quantity of sauce; Pork Marinara Pasta Sauce, sans pasta, can be portioned into sealed containers and frozen for future use within a month. Packed with rich flavor and not fatty, we’re sure Pork “Gravy” will become a popular pasta sauce at your dinner table. We recommend a light starter, like Broccoli al Limone, when serving Pork Marinara Pasta Sauce over your favorite pasta.
Total Time: 1 hour, 50 minutes. Serves 8.
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Meyer Lemon Pasta Sauce
Aromatic, sweet yet tangy Meyer lemons are key to our Meyer Lemon Pasta Sauce; other lemon varieties will yield a too tart, harsh sauce. The cooking process calls for the preparation of two sauces which are reduced and then combined to form silky Meyer Lemon Pasta Sauce. It’s wonderful with any cut pasta shape but orecchiette, radiatore, cavatappi or gemelli pair particularly well with this sauce. Pair this rich pasta dish with a simple starter such as an Heirloom Tomato Caprese Salad and a bone-dry well-chilled Sauvingnon Blanc.
Prep Time: 20 minutes, Total Time: 1 hour. Serves 2 as a main course, 4 as a first course.
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Beef and Sausage Ragu
Beef and Sausage Ragù is a zesty, hearty sauce. I created it to serve with bucatini, which was my late father’s favorite pasta; it’s also great with baked macaroni made with ziti, penne or rigatoni. This recipe makes quite a lot of sauce. If you’re not using all of it at once, portion out the remaining Beef and Sausage Ragù into containers and freeze for future use within a month. Start with Breaded Cauliflower followed by your main course of Beef and Sausage Ragù paired with a Chianti for a real Italian dinner.
Total Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes, Serves: 8 over pasta.
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Rosemary Marinara Sauce
Rosemary Marinara is the perfect sauce for Chicken or Pork Parmigiana, adding to the overall richness of those dishes without masking or overwhelming the chicken or pork. Rosemary Marinara also great as the sauce for spaghetti or angel hair pasta for an easy dinner. The rosemary adds a deep, herbal element to an otherwise simple marinara sauce which has been enriched with dry red wine.
Prep Time: 10 minutes, Total Time: 50 minutes Provides sufficient sauce for 4 chicken or pork parmigiana cutlets. Serves 4 as a pasta sauce.
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Marjoram Marinara Pasta Sauce
Marjoram Marinara Pasta Sauce beautifully showcases the subtle flavor of Marjoram, called the “Queen of Herbs”. Related to oregano, marjoram is the “sweet sister” to oregano’s “bold brother”. Marjoram Marinara Pasta Sauce is very easy to make but does require fresh marjoram; fortunately, marjoram is an easy herb to grow.
Unlike a lot of pasta sauces, Marjoram Marinara Pasta Sauce does not need to be made in a large quantity nor does it require a large time commitment to prepare. This sauce is best served fresh but you can freeze unused sauce in an airtight container; if used within a week, it will not diminish greatly in flavor. Particularly suited to filled pastas, like ravioli, tortellini and agnolotti, Marjoram Marinara Pasta Sauce is also delicious with the addition of fried Homemade Italian Meatballs for a real treat over dried cut pasta for dinner.
Prep Time: 15 minutes, Total Time: 40 minutes. Serves: 4
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Quick Tomato Pasta Sauce
Quick Tomato Pasta Sauce is just that… a fast, easy, basic tomato sauce. It’s delicious, as is, served with pasta and perfect for a quick, easy and casual weeknight dinner; simple enough for kids but tasty enough for adults. This is a great recipe for novice cooks: few ingredients, easy and not time-consuming to prepare and tasty results. More experienced cooks will appreciate that it can also be used as a basic tomato sauce starter, ready to be embellished with other elements such as Homemade Italian Meatballs or grilled sausage. Quick Tomato Pasta Sauce serves well a component in some of our other recipes, such as Grilled Sausage and Peppers Two Ways or Argentine Meatball Stew, to name just two, which require a a simple but tasty tomato sauce to support the main elements of the dish. Quick Tomato Pasta Sauce will keep refrigerated for two days or freeze for future use within a month.
Total Time: 30 minutes Serves: 2
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Red Curry Ragu
Red Curry Ragù combines two things we love: a good, meaty ragù sauce and spicy red Thai curry. With this recipe, red curry paste combines with pork sausage to create an intriguing, spicy and unexpected ragù. If you can find them, the deep green Makrut lime leaves add a colorful and bright note to the ragù. Red Curry Ragù pairs perfectly with Rigatoni, Penne, Ziti, Mostaccioli, Radiatore or even Gnocchi and a bold red wine. Chianti anyone? Save room for a dessert afterwards, such as Blood Orange Custard Pie, and an espresso.
Prep Time: 30 minutes, Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes, Serves: 4 over pasta
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