Instructions

Step 1: Dicing the Bacon

For many, this will be the first time you make a sauce like this, so it is important to do what the French call "Mise en Place". Mise en Place basically means you want to put everything in place.

This will apply mostly to anything you need to use your knife on, and it will only be for the main recipe. Mise en Place and the videos will prevent any anxiety during the cooking process. I will hyperlink any important demonstrations of processes to cut down on confusion.

Bacon is the main flavor enhancer of the sauce, and it is technically what is known in the culinary world as the main ingredient of the entire dish. It is extremely easy to dice bacon while it is still mostly frozen with a sharp sturdy knife.

Thawed bacon would take forever, and it is a safety risk to try and do a medium dice on thawed bacon. In fact, it is a great way to get cut badly.

Step 2: Dicing the Onion

The onion requires a medium dice, and here is a clip on how to safely medium dice an onion.

Everything is now fully prepped to begin the sauce. In the next 20 or 30 minutes, you will have your first bowl of bacon-infused spaghetti sauce, and your friends will tell everyone you made them the best bowl of spaghetti ever.Completing This Unique and Incredible Spaghetti With the Final Recipe
Step 1: Render the Fat From the BaconPlace all of the bacon you diced from your Mise en Place in the bottom of a metal sauce pan, and make sure it is spread evenly. Next, turn the burner under the sauce pan on medium. You are doing what is called rendering fat.Step 2: Begin Preparing the PastaFill a large stock pot up with hot tap water. You want enough water in the pot to allow the pasta to flow around freely. It will help prevent noodles from sticking to each other, the side and the bottom. A liberal dose of salt should be added as soon as the pot is put on the burner, and turn the burner on high.The salt is essential for the flavor of your noodles. There is no reason to add oil to the water because it does nothing. Finally, remember to stir several times in the beginning to release the starch and periodically throughout the cooking process. When the pasta is done cooking, your spaghetti should be finished.

Step 3: Cook the Bacon and Start Assembling the Sauce in the Correct Order

Before the canned sauce is added, there is a lot of work to be done in your sauce pan. It will be fast though. Turn the burner up three quarters of the way. Using a wooden spatula or spoon, start moving your bacon around, so it heats evenly and cooks faster.

You should notice quite a bit of bacon grease. It is from the fat rendering out of the bacon. Do not panic. This is the fat you are going to use to sauté your onions in and any other of the elective ingredients like mushrooms.

Step 4: Sauté the Onions Correctly

Once the bacon looks like it is going to start getting crispy, add all of the prepared diced onions. Stir them around in the pot well, so they get coated in the bacon fat. Let them cook for a little while until they start to become translucent. White onions are sweeter, but they taste even better when cooked translucent and coated in bacon. At this point, the smell should be causing your mouth to water.

Step 5: Add the Garlic and Herbs

First, increase the heat quite a bit to burn off some of the excess fat. Some dark spots will naturally form on the bottom of the pan, but there is nothing to worry about. Toss all the garlic you requisitioned during your prep, do the same with the herbs and stir. Stir fast and fold everything in.

Step 6: Add Red Wine for Flavor and Function

Before adding the red wine to the increasingly hot mixture, turn the burner on absolute high. There is no magic, precise measurement for this step either. Add a little around the edge and pour it on places where food is becoming stuck, and in the end, there should be a very shallow coating on the bottom. Keep the burner on high because the red wine will burn off and keep stirring the bottom hard and fast. Now, it's time to finish up.

Step 7: Adding the Canned Sauce and Completing the Dish

Add the cans of sauce, and incorporate the bland tomato sauce with the natural flavor enhancers you have prepared and cooked for the last 45 minutes. Turn the burner down to medium, add salt and pepper to taste.

Remember the foundation of the entire dish is bacon, which is salty.

Finally, add any of the Italian herbs to taste. Once you are satisfied, turn the burner down to low heat and cover it. Drain your pasta, and rinse it with cold water. Add the spaghetti noodles to whatever you are going to serve them out of, and toss the noodles while lightly drizzling extra virgin olive oil. Your meal is completed, and you can assemble it for serving however you want.