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Italian Gravy

1 1/2lb hot sausage
4 cans of crushed tomatoes (12 oz)
1 can tomato paste ( 4.5 oz)
1/2 onion
3 cloves of garlic

coat sauce pan with olive oil, cut sausage into desired size then fry sausage for 15 minutes or so at 7 out of 10 to get the juice out, push sausage to the side for a minute throw finely chopped onion and garlic into the oil and heat for 2 minutes or so to get the flavor out of it. Add the cans of crushed tomatoes rinse cans out with one full can of water add the water to the sauce then add tomato paste, add three bay leaves, salt, pepper, oregeno, basil and parsley leaves to flavor basically about a pinch of each. Bring to a boil for 5 minutes or so then turn down to simmer for a 3 or 4 hours. Bring back up to a boil when ready to serve.

For meatballs at least 2 lbs of hamburg add bread that you've wet through with water and wrung the water out a couple of eggs, some garlic, onions, parsley, salt and pepper to flavor. You can fry them you can bake them. Whichever you choose to do do not over fry or bake as you'll be adding them to the sauce and if you pre-cook them to much they'll dry out.