Billzbubās Red Gravy, Quarantine Edition.
Mah mise is mah muse...
Ingredients: 1/2 cup 50% butter/50% olive oil. Heart attack blend. 6-8 minced toes of garlic. Or 1 whole foot. 2 large yellow onions, diced. Iām not crying. Youāre crying. 2 roasted red bell peppers and 1 roasted jalapeno, peeled and chopped. 1 bottle dry red wine. 1 cup for sauce, I cup to get sauced. 2 tbsp Balsamic glaze For sweetness, sweetness. 10 cups crushed tomatoes. Crushed like my dreams. A bunch of sacrificial basil, stems and all. 2 tsp crushed fennel seed. You can omit, but I would object. Crushed red pepper, to taste and sensibilities. Mo hotta, I say. Salt and Peppa. Is here. In full effect.
Slowly sweat the onions in the fatness. Sweat, like you are asking them an embarrassing question. Outside. In Texas. June-ish. They shouldnāt caramelize, just become super pale and soft. Like a Midwesterner in February.
Next, add the garlic and seasonings. Let the fat do its work. Get some garlic aromatherapy.Ā
Next comes the roasted peppers and balsamic glaze. I use the balsamic glaze and peppers to add the sweetness instead of sugar or tomato paste. Thatās the way I roll, bruh.Ā
Now add the 1 cup reserved wine and let the heat cook out the alcohol like your overtaxed, engorged liver is currently attempting. A few minutes should be ok*. Unlike your digestive system. Thatās about 1 oz/80 proof/hr *Actual title of sex tape.
Finally....time to dump in the crushedĀ āmaters. Put the basil on top. Stir and simmer as long as ya wanna...coupla hours should do*. Stir a bunch. Cover, but not completely, to avoid red napalm splashes, but also to allow some reduction. Fish out the basil when it is done and do with it what you will. Itās yours now, maing. Add more salt to taste, but I tend to undersalt, to allow for future applications. And so my heart doesnāt explode all over my swollen feet and ankles. *Working title of sex tape















