Brown beef and sausage add onions and cook until pink out of meat
Strain the fat out and in the empty pan put six cloves of garlic sauté a minute or two then add your meat and onion mixture
Cook on low until caramelized
Add crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, water, tomato sauce, sugar, dried basil, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper and parsley
Stir it up, cover and simmer for one hour
Make the ricotta mixture
Mix the ricotta, egg, Parmesan cheese, parsley and salt and pepper
In a deep baking dish put meat on bottom then noodles on top then ricotta sauce sliced mozzarella shredded mozzarella Parmesan cheese, and start the next two layers the same.
Bake at 375° oven 30 minutes covered than 30 minutes uncovered
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