In this week's episode, Ryan has an ACTUAL CHEF DAD join him in the kitchen- Alex Jermasek. Alex has worked in fancy restaurants all over the country and started butchering when he was 18. He now works for CreamCo Meats, a 100% natural whole-animal butchery and distributor for sustainable and regenerative ranches. He knows a thing or two about meat, and teaches Ryan how to make a staple meal for every dad's repertoire: Pasta Bolognese!

RECIPE: Pasta Bolognese

Ingredients:
one yellow onion
celery
carrots
1 bulb of garlic
Olive oil
Ground beef
White wine
tomato paste
anchovies
butter
chicken stock
Crushed tomatoes
Tagliatelle pasta
Loaf of fresh bread.
Milk
Parmesan cheese

Directions:
Dice the onion, celery and grate the carrot. Smash the garlic to separate the cloves and shake in a bowl to separate the garlic from the peel. Chop some garlic and add to the vegetable mixture, leaving some whole cloves for later.

In a large pot, begin to build the sauce. Add some olive oil over medium heat and add the beef, cook the beef and transfer into a different bowl, leaving the fat in the pot. Then cook down the vegetables, adding your celery, onions, carrots and garlic. Cook down slowly, scraping the fatty burned bits from the side. Add some tomato paste to the vegetable mixture. Add several anchovies to taste. Add a little white wine to the mixture to deglaze. Add the meat to the sauce base.

In another large stock pot, bring water to a boil.

Add some chicken stock to the sauce pot and combine. Add a can of crushed tomatoes to the sauce and stir to combine.

Add the pasta to the boiling water. As the pasta cooks, add a few spoonfuls of the pasta water to the sauce mixture, which is still simmering on medium / low heat.

Once pasta is cooked, drain in the sink and immediately rinse with cold water to stop the pasta from cooking and prevent it from clumping together. Set aside to cool.

Add around 1/3 of a cup of milk to the sauce and stir to combine.

Slice the load of bread into thick flat pieces. douse the bread with olive oil and fry over medium / high heat. After the bread is crispy, then take a raw clove of garlic and grate over the bread itself, rubbing the clove along the surface.

Add about four tablespoons of butter into your sauce, lowering the heat to low. Let the butter melt into the sauce.

Combine the pasta with the sauce by adding spoonfuls at a time to coat the sauce. Then plate some pasta, spooning more sauce over the top of the pasta. Grate a ton of parmesan over the pasta, add freshly ground pepper, plate alongside some garlic bread and enjoy!!

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