Favorite Spaghetti Sauce

This is our favorite spaghetti sauce. Because this takes so long to cook I like to double or triple the batch and freeze some for later. And don't try to use a crock pot. It doesn't taste as good. It's tons better on the stove. Remember the splatter screen it can get messy.

1lb ground beef
1/2lb italian sausage. I get mine from the butcher but if you buy it in links just squeeze it out of the casing. They do have pretty good links at Walmart. It's in the pork section in the meat dept.
3 Cans tomato sauce
1 cans diced tomatoes
4 cloves of garlic
4 Tbs Olive Oil
1C heavy cream
1T basil

Put Oil and pressed garlic in to pan. Before the garlic browns all the way add the beef and pork (garlic will continue to brown while meat is cooking). When meat is cooked add your cans of tomatoes. Do not drain the oil out. There is lots of flavor in it.

Cook on medium heat for about 4 hours stirring every 20 minutes. After 4 hours add basil and cream. Cook for about 10 minutes then take off heat. Sauce will be pretty thick. You do not have to add anything else to the sauce. You can add more cream if you'd like. We like ours light orange almost pinkish in color.

We also use this sauce in our lasagna. So much better than your basic red sauce.
I was making this today and just had another tip. Water down your can a bit to get the extra sauce out and pour it in the pot.