Pasta and Easy Italian Meat Sauce

Ingredients

• 4 tablespoons butter 
• 1 tablespoon olive oil 
• 0.5 cup carrots grated
• 1  onion chopped
• 2  garlic clove chopped
• 0.8 pound ground beef 
• 28 ounces canned tomatoes whole canned
• 0.5 cup milk 
• 1  bay leaves dried
• 0.5 teaspoon thyme dried
• 0.3 teaspoon nutmeg 
• 1 serving coarse mustard 
• 1 pound fettuccine barilla 
• 1 serving parmesan grated for serving

Equipment

• sauce pan
• pot

Directions

1. Heat butter and oil in a large saucepan over medium. Stir in carrot, onion, and garlic.
2. Add ground beef, and cook until it turns from pink to brown, about 5 minutes.
3. Add tomatoes and their liquid, crushing them with the back of a large spoon. Stir in milk, bay leaf, thyme, nutmeg, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Simmer 20 minutes.
4. Meanwhile, in a large pot of boiling salted water, cook fettuccine until al dente according to package instructions, about 12 minutes. Reserve about 1/2 cup of the cooking water; drain fettuccine, and return to the warm pot.
5. Add meat sauce, and toss.
6. Add pasta water as needed if the sauce seems dry. To serve, sprinkle with Parmesan.