Suzi's Special Speghetti

You know how good home cooking is? After last year's Thanksgiving, my sister Suzi whipped up some incredible spaghetti. I was full from the leftovers and anxious to get on the road, however, the smell of this spaghetti was intoxicating. Of course I sat down to try it out.

Three plates later with a full mouth I said, "Sis I have to get this recipe from you sometime." Sometime finally arrived this afternoon. Here is the recipe, verbatim from the phone call in which it was relayed to me.

- 1 lb. Hamburger
- 3/4 lb. sweet Italian Sausage
- Drizzle pan with extra virgin olive oil
- couple sprinkles of fennel

Brown up this mixture really good

- box of smooth tomato sauce (14-16 oz)
- can of diced tomatoes
- 1/2 teaspoon of red pepper flakes
- sprinkle of cinnamon
- 1/3 cup of brown sugar

For some reason she hesitantly told me the last two ingredients like I would think she was crazy or something. At this point of the story I have to provide a disclaimer for the recipe. Suzi did tell me that she always guesses and I was incredibly impressed that she pulled this right off the top of her head while waiting for Jordan's lacrosse game.

Lately, Christina and I have been on a bit of a cooking kick. After I finished class at UCSD, I had a little more free time, so I dusted off the Chinese cookbook from my mission and made some Chinese dumplings, which turned out amazing. Ever since I've caught the bug and browsed through all of Christina's cookbooks.

So I was really excited to get this going. Attached is a picture of the sauce still on the stove. We are suppose to let it simmer for another forty minutes (which means a total of an hour). Yep I wrote this post in the last ten minutes waiting for the sauce to finish.

So far, it tastes incredible, bringing back lots of good memories from last time I tried it! Probably going to make next year's Parker cookbook!

Bon Appetite!