{"id":60591,"date":"2026-01-16T01:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=60591"},"modified":"2026-01-03T01:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:15:27","slug":"homemade-ragu-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/01\/16\/homemade-ragu-sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Ragu Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"b18260\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #b18260;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ragu-Sauce_TOHD24_47366_SoniaBozzo_7.webp?resize=700%2C467&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60592 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ragu-Sauce_TOHD24_47366_SoniaBozzo_7.webp?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ragu-Sauce_TOHD24_47366_SoniaBozzo_7.webp?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ingredients<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 pound ground beef<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1\/2 pound ground pork<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1\/4 pound bacon strips, diced<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 medium onions, chopped<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 celery ribs, chopped<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 small carrots, chopped<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4 garlic cloves, minced<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 cup dry red wine or beef broth<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 can (28 ounces) crushed tomatoes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 can (15 ounces) tomato sauce<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 tablespoons tomato paste<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 bay leaves<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 teaspoons sugar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 teaspoon salt<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon dried thyme<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon dried oregano<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon each ground cumin, nutmeg and pepper<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1\/2 cup heavy whipping cream<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 tablespoons butter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1\/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hot cooked pasta<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In a Dutch oven, cook the beef, pork, bacon, onions, celery and carrots over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. Add garlic; cook 2 minutes longer. Add wine; cook until liquid is reduced by half, 4-5 minutes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stir in the tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, bay leaves, sugar and seasonings. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, until thickened, stirring occasionally, 1-1\/2 to 2 hours.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discard bay leaves. Add the cream, butter and parsley; cook 2 minutes longer. Stir in cheese. Serve with pasta.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients Directions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"3772","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDFcL1JhZ3UtU2F1Y2VfVE9IRDI0XzQ3MzY2X1NvbmlhQm96em9fNy53ZWJwP2ZpdD03MDAlMkM0Njcmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJIb21lbWFkZSBSYWd1IFNhdWNlIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJoaWdod2F5IiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.k8AZYK3yqEirIOPvzezOikZ-zq3_ZVfDzK_dZOV0BPQMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":60592,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ragu-Sauce_TOHD24_47366_SoniaBozzo_7.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[3772],"tags":[13078],"class_list":["post-60591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes","tag-homemade-ragu-sauce"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60593,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60591\/revisions\/60593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}