Dinner: Gramma Pandolfi's Pasta Sauce with Meatballs

Ingredients

1/4 cup olive oil
1 large onion, chopped
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
4 ounces button mushrooms, trimmed, sliced (about 3 cups)
3 sweet Italian sausages, removed from casings (about 1 pound)
8 ounces ground beef
8 ounces ground pork
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon celery salt
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 (12-ounce) can tomato paste
3 (28-ounce) cans crushed tomatoes
1 (28-ounce) can tomato sauce

Instructions

Heat oil in a large stockpot over medium. Add onion, garlic, and mushrooms and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft, 6 –8 minutes. Crumble sausage, beef, and pork with your fingers into onion mixture. Add kosher salt, pepper, celery salt, oregano, garlic powder, and onion powder and cook, breaking up meat with a wooden spoon, until browned and cooked through, 3 –5 minutes. Add tomato paste and cook, stirring occasionally, 15 minutes. Add crushed tomatoes and tomato sauce. Stir to combine, then reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, at least 3 hours and up to 8.

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