We Learn From Our Mistakes

FlaMike

So I had this great idea, to do up some italian sausasge, add some frozen meatballs (too lazy to make fresh), and make a "smokey, mega-meat " spaghetti sauce.

It seemed like such a great plan. After about an hour @ 275-300º direct on a raised grid, with cherry smoke the meat was done, into the sauce it went, and an hour later, viola! no taste. Probably dripped slowly through the holes into the lump as it cooked. Next time, I'll not use the pan with all the holes. But the meat was delicious on it's own. I saved a few sausages for sandwiches. I guess I'll have to suffer through all the pasta & sauce. Any suggestions?
Mike

waruwaru

Add more meat into the sauce?

thirdeye

FlaMike,[p]I think you should have used a lower temp and only cooked the links to 140° and the balls to 120°, they can finish in the sauce.[p]You didn't say but did you finish the sauce in the Egg? Tomato based sauces take smoke easily. You could have put the sauce with meat on the Egg for 30 minutes and it should have picked up a nice smokey flavor.[p]~thirdeye~

FlaMike

thirdeye, Thanks for the meat temps reminder. I cooked the meat till it looked done, didn't do the temp at all. And, I also didn't think of finishing the sauce in the egg. Great ideas. Should do better next time. Thanks.

tach18k

FlaMike, what flavor did you want? A smoky pasta sauce?
Alot depends on what your base sauce was.

FlaMike

tach18k, Yeah, I was going for smokey pasta sauce, just to try something different, to see how it would come out. The base sauce is a jar of Barilla any flavor will do, mixed with 2 cans of diced tomatoes, and sauteed onions, green peppers, and mushrooms. it usually comes out great when the meat is just browned and added. So after the first hour, the sauce had no smokey taste, and the meat was kind of blah. but now, it's been several hours, and the flavors have definetly come together. I don't know if I actually like a smokey pasta sauce, but it was worth a try.

tach18k

FlaMike,
I had a jar sauce the other day, I mixed two together, well it turns out mone was some DR BBQ sauce I had left over. Odd taste, but good, Try the Paul Newmans stuff it pretty good also. I'm not big on tomatoes, much less the chunky one!