Bolognese Sauce: The real stuff

Bolognese sauce (ragù alla bolognese in Italian) is a meat-based pasta sauce.

Ragù bolognese is sometimes mistakenly referred to as a "tomato" sauce, but authentic recipes have only a very small amount of tomato – maybe a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste.

Bolognese sauce is generally not served with spaghetti because the pieces of meat tend to fall off the pasta and stay on the plate.

Spaghetti Bolognese, or spaghetti alla bolognese, which is sometimes further shortened to spag bol, is a dish invented outside of Italy consisting of spaghetti with a meat sauce.

source: Wikipedia