Best Meat Sauce (cheap) w/ Beer

Step 4 Cooking the Sauce

Now put the pan back on the stove at a lower heat.
add:
- jar of sauce
- cans of diced tomatoes
- jalapenos (if desired)

Stir all of that in completely and bring it to a very slow boil.

I then add beer. Like i said earlier, i usually use Budweiser, but i didn't this time. The beer i used added good flavor but it didn't make it as rich as the Budweiser did. I'm in college so there is always beer in the refrigerator. If you don't have beer, don't worry about it. It will add good flavor and it is my (not so secret) ingredient, but is not mandatory for the sauce.

i then add most or all of the seasonings. the bay leaves, paprika, Tabasco, etc.

sometimes i wait to add the seasonings until after simmering, but its not a big deal. except for the bay leaves, you need to add them now.

note that i added a handful of pearl onions at this step... i was just using them up. they didn't taste good in this and i ended up eating most of them before it was done just to get rid of them.