Sunday Night Dinner

Less than a week back from winter break, my friends and I are already tired of eating tasteless, nutrient-less, loveless cafeteria food.  Tonight we've decided to shake up the routine and whip up our own grub for a change.  The menu includes Nicholas Nutile's world famous Italian meat and mushroom sauce, accompanied by whole wheat penne pasta, garlic broccoli, and pan bigio AKA Meijer artisan bread.  Unfortunately, using concrete recipes is not Nick's forte, therefore all I can give you is a list of ingredients for the meat sauce.  They are as follows:

• 90/10 ground sirloin   
• white mushrooms
• crushed canned tomatoes 
• fire roasted diced tomatoes
• tomato paste
• garlic
• garlic powder
• onion
• onion powder
• basil
• oregano
• extra virgin olive oil
• sugar
• salt
• pepper

Put garlic and oil into pan, let garlic brown.  Add onions, mushrooms, oregano, basil, sugar, salt, pepper. Let them sweat until onions are translucent.  Remove from pot.  Cook meat in the same pot with salt, pepper, oregano, basil, garlic powder, and onion powder.  

Add mushroom/onion mixture to the meat. Stir. Add all tomatoes, and re-season. Stir. Add seasoning as desired.  Simmer.  

Serve, eat and....

ENJOY!