A family staple for generations!
It's made up of simple, affordable ingredients that are easy to prepare, fun to eat, and deliciously tasty to enjoy with a rich tomato-beef flavour.
I whipped up a triple batch tonight for dinner and to freeze into portions to help hubby manage the crazy 'happy hour' while I'm in New York.
You've got to love that I'll still be feeding my family even from the other side of the world! A mum's got to do what a mum's got to do...
Meanwhile, I got a special delivery of ingredients yesterday from Fairy to add to my next batch of spag bol. Fairy are running a special competition that could land you (and me) a trip to Margaret River, Western Australia.
Sound good? Read on to find out the rest of the delicious details!
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| Spaghetti Bolognaise, Mummy Dazzler Style! |
Dazzling Spaghetti Bolognaise
Serves 4 - 6
2 tablespoons oil
1 onion, diced
3 cloved garlic, crushed
100 bacon or ham, diced
100g salami, diced
500g beef mince
500g beef mince
200g semi-dried tomatoes
2x 800g canned diced tomatoes
2 tablespoons tomato paste
500g traditional pasta sauce
2x beef stock cubes
2 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon dried basil
500g spaghetti (we love Angel Hair)
fresh parsley & grated parmesan to serve
1. Heat oil in a large pot or frying pan over a medium heat. Add onion, garlic, bacon and salami. Cook until onion is soft.
2. Add the mince and cook on medium heat until browned.
2. Add the mince and cook on medium heat until browned.
3. Add the tinned tomatoes, tomato paste, pasta sauce, and stock cubes and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 10 - 15 minutes.
4. Season with the balsamic, sugar and basil, and add salt and pepper to taste. Add the sun-dried tomatoes and allow to simmer until heated through.
5. Cook the pasta in boiling water until al dente. Drain well.
My 'secret' Spaghetti Bolognaise ingredients are sun-dried tomatoes, sugar, balsamic vinegar and stock cubes. I love the enhanced flavour they give my dish, and the added texture of the sun-dried tomatoes adds something a little extra special.
So, what secret ingredients do you add to your spag bol recipe?
How many plates do you think one bottle of Fairy could wash?
Answer both of these questions and you and I could be jetting off on a trip to Margarget River, Western Australia for three days next month with ME (yay).
We'd even get to watch the filming of the latest Fairy commercial as they test out exactly how many dirty dishes one mighty bottle of Fairy can clean.
Not to mention, we'd enjoy the culinary genius of Ben O'Donoghue as he hosts a special lunch for the Margaret River community. I wonder what his secret Spaghetti Bolognaise ingredients are!
So, tell me your answers to the above two questions and you could be enjoying three child-free days here... BLISS!
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Terms and Conditions:
- A select number of bloggers have been chosen by P&G to participate in the Fairy Spaghetti Bolognese competition
- P&G invites blog readers to guess how many plates can be washed by one bottle of Fairy dishwashing detergent
- The competition will be judged on a number of components:
- The bloggers' Spaghetti Bolognese recipe
- The reader that guesses the correct number or closest number of plates that can be washed by one bottle of Fairy
- In the event that readers from different blogs guess the same number, the Spaghetti Bolognese recipe will be judged by the experts at P&G
- The reader and the respective blogger, who facilitates the reader’s guess, will both win the trip to Margaret River, Western Australia
- The competition is open to Australian residents only
- The winning reader must be available to travel between August 23rd and 25th 2012
- The winning reader must claim their prize by August 15th, 2012 by 4pm
- In the event that the winning reader cannot make the trip or does not claim their prize, P&G will go down the list of readers that guessed closest to the amount of plates that can be washed by one bottle of Fairy dishwashing liquid.
