Spaghetti bolognese

He's right - that is how the Italians do it.

It is the correct way. But each to their own.

It is how I was taught to sauce pasta but everyone has a perfect right to eat their own dinner however they like.

The Italians drain the pasta and then tip it into the sauce and stir adding pasta water if it needs it. Their pasta is different to ours and has fine groves in it if it is a good quality to hold the sauce . They match each sauce to one or two specific pasta shapes.
Some spaghetti Bolognaise is made with milk.

I thought Spaghetti Bolognese was one thing the Italians do not eat!
Spaghetti bolognese, sometimes called spaghetti alla bolognese, or shortened to "spag bol", is a pasta dish that is popular outside Italy but not part of traditional Bolognese or even Italian cuisine in general. The dish is generally perceived as inauthentic when encountered by Italians abroad

RosiesMaw

I thought Spaghetti Bolognese was one thing the Italians do not eat!
^Spaghetti bolognese, sometimes called spaghetti alla bolognese, or shortened to "spag bol", is a pasta dish that is popular outside Italy but not part of traditional Bolognese or even Italian cuisine in general. The dish is generally perceived as inauthentic when encountered by Italians abroad^

I think Italians would usually eat ragu bolognese with tagliatelle rather than spaghetti, but would still mix the pasta with the sauce (and, as someone has already said, add a little of the pasta cooking water) rather than serving the sauce on top of the plain pasta.

I would just be glad to have someone to cook for me.

In Bologna their traditional dish is Tagliatelle Bolognese and they do mix the ragu into the fresh pasta.

Peep I actually made the sauce - it came out of the freezer 😂

My SiL and DD1 live in Autralia now but his parents are Maltese and, when he cooks pasta bolognese, he mixes it together at the end of the cooking process. Delicious either way!

I suggest that, if mixing the sauce into the pasta means you can't taste the pasta, you are using too much sauce. When we stayed with friends in Italy I noticed that our hostess only cooked a tiny saucepan of sauce for the four of us.

MissInterpreted

RosiesMaw

I thought Spaghetti Bolognese was one thing the Italians do not eat!
^Spaghetti bolognese, sometimes called spaghetti alla bolognese, or shortened to "spag bol", is a pasta dish that is popular outside Italy but not part of traditional Bolognese or even Italian cuisine in general. The dish is generally perceived as inauthentic when encountered by Italians abroad^

I think Italians would usually eat ragu bolognese with tagliatelle rather than spaghetti, but would still mix the pasta with the sauce (and, as someone has already said, add a little of the pasta cooking water) rather than serving the sauce on top of the plain pasta.

I collect cookery books by Anna Del a Conti who is from Northern Italy and she says there are many recipes for a ragu some using sausage some beef some a mixture of Beef and pancetta and her classic ragu Bolagnaise uses beef, pancetta and milk. Delia Smith and Nigella Lawson often quote her.
I also had an Italian aunt who made a ragu Bolognaise and put the pasta into the sauce before serving it.

That's interesting. I thought it was only in Southern Italy (Naples especially) they added milk to ragu.

MissInterpreted

He's right - that is how the Italians do it.

I make it like this too. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Always .. You add the pasta into the sauce.

In the south around Naples, they add chicken livers to their ragu.

One DinL is from Naples - I’ll have to ask her when I see her.