Very satisfying!

Every now and then you need a good hit of nostalgia. I've really been feeling it lately, so I'm on a kick off recreating some of the dishes I grew up eating in diners and other mom n pop restaurants in the 80s and 90s. This was one of my favorites! Rich, meaty tomato sauce ladled over top your spaghetti and served up with those old shakers of cheese dust and red pepper flakes and a slice of garlic toast. It wasn't fancy, but it was good.

For the sauce I used a can of crushed tomatoes, half an onion, four cloves of garlic, dried basil, salt, and a bit of sugar. Browned up some ground beef, added the diced onions and garlic, cooked until the onions went soft, deglazed with water, added the tomatoes and basil, and let it simmer for the afternoon. Finished it with a bit of sugar to cut against the acidity of the tomatoes, and adjusted the seasoning with a bit more salt. For the garlic toast, I made a spread with butter, lots of fresh garlic, a bit of salt, some paprika, and fresh parsley. Spread out on both sides of your bread and chuck it into a 425f oven on a parchment lined sheet pan. 7-9 minutes per side. Done. (Diners, though, would often do the garlic toast on a flat top griddle)

Side note: before people get all up in arms saying it's better to toss your noodles with the sauce in a pan, I know. I'm a chef with decades of experience and I made my bones early in my career working in Italian restaurants. I'm going for a very particular feel in this dish, though. This is diner food, not Italian. Cheers!

I find the parmesan stripe doen the centre really satisfying :) I bet it tasted amazing!

Can you share the recipe etc?

Oh yeah that’s what I meant. That there’s no meat in the chili part since meat is in the carne part. So it’d be weird to have chili with meat, since chili con carne would then be chili with meat with meat.

"sin carne" would be without meat

Beautiful

Dried chilies, re-hydrate them and blend them with a stock. This is the base/paste.

Saute fresh peppers, onions and garlic. Add spices, paste and more stock. Simmer for hours then thicken with harina masa or corn tortillas.

Minus the beans this is pretty much a spaghetti sauce recipe to me.

Chili con carne to me is spaghetti sauce + beans, corn, cumin and cinnamon, I was going to use a more "authentic" recipe next time but looks like this ain't gonna be it either.

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Makes it kind of like a mole sauce. Not better just different.

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I think they mean like tomato chuncks. Of course chili has tomato paste in it, it has to lol.

I think it's more that the sauce looks a bit thin. Maybe it's just me.

Also I kind of want to make the American version, my gf says it's always too salty with pancetta, heard guanciale is even more salty.

Right? Chili is among the best kinds of stew, don't get the downvotes.

Why's it only meat and one type of bean.

Put two more beans in there, Tomato, Peppers, Onion, Then we talk

> ok then why did you put them in there?!?

For starters, more food for less money? More warm food per portion and less rice or bread needed?

> chili that uses tomatoes [...], but a true Texas Chili does not.

The first two recipes for "true Texas chili" I found use tomatoes. How else do you get sauce if you omit them?

Yummy!!!!!!🤤 I love matcha 💚

Yes!

Why wouldnt you call them pupcakes

Yes, yes they are.

Hahaha, clever!!!

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That looks so good.