Yanna Bananna's Spaghetti Bolognese

Yanna Bananna to me is like Byron Bay. I feel refreshed and completely calm when I'm with her. She switches on my creativity/holiday button and before I know it, I'm sitting in a cathedral listening to Joss Stone, signing up for a cocktail-making course, or strumming guitar to a lifeguard at Dee Why.

Yanna, I love you - and I love how your genius flies under the radar. You tell me that you play guitar by making shapes with your fingers.. and I secretly think you're starting out, then I stand there at church and see you ripping out a solo in front of +500 people.

You say you'll whack something together for when we go to your house - and we arrive to a menu I can't even articulate let alone copy even if I tried because the recipe doesn't actually exist - you just created it, from the ingredients you found in the cupboards.

You are beautiful - and you have been a spring of fresh water to me all the times we've hung out. Here is the one recipe I managed to claw out of you, trying to translate the 'that amount'll do...yeah, just a bit more of that.. about 1-2 of these..' into a recipe that I can actually work from every time!

I'm sure this staple will find its way into the hands of many little lissy's one day.

Ingredients:

Olive Oil
2 Spanish Onions, diced
2 Brown Onion, diced
3-4 cloves of Garlic, crushed
2 Carrots, diced
1 cup red wine
salt + pepper
approx 300g Tomato Paste (Leggos)
1 x 400g can crushed tomatoes
water
1 tbsp Sweet Chilli sauce
1 tbsp Kecap Manis
1 pckt Perino tomatoes, halved
Continental Parsely, chopped
Basil, torn
500g Premium Mince
Spaghetti

Method:

1. Coat saucepan with olive oil. Fry mince until browned and set aside. 
2. Coat saucepan with olive oil. Fry onions on low heat.
3. Add garlic. Stir. Add Carrots. Coat with salt and pepper.
4. Pour tomato paste in small bowl and mix with water. Transfer to carrot mixture and stir on low heat.
5. Gradually add crushed tomatoes, sweet chilli sauce, kecap manis and perino tomatoes. Let simmer.
6. Coat frypan with oil and cook mince.
7. Fill saucepan w/ water. Boil and add salt. Cook Spaghetti.
8. Add Mince to sauce.
9. Add Parsley to sauce
10. Strain Spaghetti and coat with olive oil, salt and pepper. Stir through.
11. Serve and garnish with basil leaves.