Bolognese or Bolognaise, Italian or French?

The prerequisite bolognese/bolognaise recipe!

Disclaimer: this probably isn’t the ‘classic’ or ‘perfect’ or ‘whatever-you-want-to-call-it’ bolognaise recipe…. but it’s the one that my friends, family and I love – both to cook AND eat.

The full bolognaise recipe is something that I just started doing pretty recently. TheĀ soffritto (Italian) or mirepoix (French) which is the combination of onions, celery and carrots – makes the bolognaise, SO much better. I made this for a dinner we had recently, and the smell of it made a couple of people say “WHAT did you put in that?? It smells so good!”

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