Pasta Sauce: Pre-cook Meat

I actually don't usually put any meat at all in pasta sauce. I like a vegetarian pasta, maybe with some meat on the side. But if you're going to put in some ground beef, you should cook it before you mingle it with anything, to make sure you get that bacteria good and dead. You can put lots of different types of meat in pasta. Beef strips, ham, salami or pepperoni chunks, chicken, shrimp. Whatever you've got around, it's going to work.

If you're using sea food like shrimp, cook it by itself, and add it to the sauce at the very end.