ragù

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Diners have the choice of larger or smaller portions from all parts of the menu, enabling one to choose a huge bowl of sweet potato and red pepper soup, and a small portion of pappardelle with oxtail ragù.

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  • That's when you discover the meat ragù coating the elastic tajarin, which is braised down so far that it's an echo of the beast it came from, formless but haunting. www. spinasse.com. —  Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue
  • Affable, urbane chap who did not mince his words but occasionally made a ragù of them? —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
  • Although Spaghetti alla Bolognese are very popular outside of Italy, it never existed in Bologna, where ragù is served always with the local egg pastas tagliatelle or lasagne. —  Crate Digging Revealed
  • Spaghetti is a durum wheat pasta from Naples, and the Naples Ragù of a meat flavoured thick tomato sauce clings much better to slippery spaghetti than Bologna's ground beef ragù. —  Crate Digging Revealed
  • In the United States as well, the term 'bolognese' is often applied to a tomato-and-ground-beef sauce that bears little resemblance to ragù served in Bologna. —  Crate Digging Revealed
 

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