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Lorraine's Tomato Sauce

Brown in oil 1 beef short rib 1 pork rib (If you are making lasagna cook one chicken leg instead of ribs) Once browned, add 1 diced onion And cook until translucent.  then add 3 garlic cloves, minced Meanwhile! Bring to boil  1 24 oz can of whole Italian-style tomatoes  Then put through food mill.   Combine the milled tomatoes to the ribs and onion with  1 small can of tomato paste Salt and pepper 2 tsp sugar 1 tsp dried basil (or add fresh basil at the end) Let simmer for an hour then add meatballs and let simmer another hour.

Lorraine's pasta

Makes one pound of pasta. Combine in food processor until smooth 3 eggs 3 tbsp cooking oil Add in 3 cups flour And turn on the food processor.  Add though the top 1/4 cup of water Process until comes together in a ball.  You may add a few tbs additional water. Pull out of food processor and kneed a bit into a ball until velvety.  Let rest 15 minutes before putting into the pasta machine. For the pasta machine, start at 1 with about 1/5 of a batch of pasta.  Shape into a disk a half an inch thick.  Go from 1 to 3 on the pasta machine, then cut the strand in half and go from 4 to 6 on the halves. Pasta is extremely sticky.  Lay on tablecloth or towels, non overlapping, dust with cornmeal.  Extra pasta should be dusted with cornmeal and frozen.  If you are making fettichine keep dusting it with flour to keep it from sticking together then put on tray with cornmeal. The cornmeal is heavier and will fall to the bottom when co...