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Marie Guaragna-Beirne

(703) 906-9910

MGBSpecialEvents@aol.com

Marie has been a cooking instructor for over five years at the Arlington Adult Education center and also teaches private cooking instruction. Marie is the president of MGB Special Events located in Arlington, Virginia. MGB is a private-client based company specializing in all authentic homemade cuisine. Marie is also a professional bartender and enjoys working at parties in Virginia, DC and Maryland. Marie enjoys catering many diverse events anywhere from small intimate dinners up to parties with 100 guests. Cooking for most of her adult life and was extremely lucky to have had the best cooking coach in the world; her Mom. Marie is of Sicilian decent where there is no finer fare!

How to Serve Pasta Sauce and Meatballs

Chef Marie Guaragna-Beirne demonstrates how to make pasta sauce and meatballs, including how to serve the dish.

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How to Serve Pasta Sauce and Meatballs

Ingredients

Tomato Sauce:
28 ounces of canned tomatoes
3/4 cup of water
Oregano
1 teaspoon of pepper
Salt
1/4 olive oil
4-5 leaves of basil
4 cloves of garlic
1/2 cup of sugar
1 diced onion
Meatballs:
Two eggs
1 pound of ground beef
4 leaves of basil
2 cloves of garlic
1 tablespoon of salt
1 teaspoon of pepper
4 slices of bread

Instructions

1. Dice an onion and place it in a pan with the olive oil. Saute it for five minutes or until it is irridescent.

2. Add the tomatoes, sugar and garlic to the pan. Add pepper, basil and oregano and stir it together on medium heat for an hour.

3. Whisk the eggs together. Cut up the basil and add it to the bowl along with parsley, garlic, salt and pepper.

4. Remove the crust from the bread and wet the bread. Chop up the bread and add it to the other ingredients.

5. Add the meat and mix well with a whisk or your hands. Form into balls and gently drop them into the tomato sauce for 45 minutes to an hour.

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Bonjourno, my name is Marie Guaragna with MGB special events. Today, I am showing you how to make our old fashioned pasta sauce with meatballs. Our final part of the process is actually, plating the pasta. Now, you can use any kind of pasta that you like. My preference is Barilla. Today, we are going to be using a linguini.

Now, most of you I could, from ads that you have seen in the newspaper or ads that you have seen in a magazine, you normally see this white pasta with this big glob of tomato sauce on it. Well, that is probably not a bad way to do it, but this is the way that I do it. I like to take a coffee cup and completely submerge my pasta in the sauce.

So, just going to take a cup, put a couple of cupfuls, two, three, it does not matter, depends I guess, on how much pasta you are using. Today, we are using a pound of wonderful linguini and I like to use tongs for this process. There are pasta tossers or spoons you can use, but I like to use tongs in my cooking process. It just helps me make sure that all of my pasta is completely coated with our wonderful delicious tomato sauce. You always, whenever you are serving food, you always want to serve the food nice and hot. You could probably see the steam coming up.

So, basically, we are going to take our plates and we are going to put a nice amount of pasta here, maybe a little bit more, especially for the men. We are going to come in, we are going to take our sauce, put it on top and then we are going to top it with a couple of our delicious meatballs. Now, like any good sauce, it needs a wonderful cheese to go along with it.

My favorite cheese which I like to use is Pecorino Romano. Lot of restaurants I think, you will see they are using Parmesan and again, it is not right, it is not wrong. It is just completely your preference. So, but in this case, I am going to go ahead and I am going to use this Pecorino Romano and of course, you have it on the table, put it in a cup, does not matter and I am going to go ahead and just sprinkle it on top of our pasta with meatballs and it is ready to go.

Hopefully, you will be able to make this process at home and enjoy your favorite sauce with meatballs.