Italian-American Meat Sauce - Lidia

Ingredients

• Two 35-ounce cans Italian plum tomatoes (preferably San Marzano)
• ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
• 2 medium yellow onions, diced (about 2 cups)
• 6 to 8 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped fine
• 5 or 6 meaty pork neck bones (about 3/4 pound)
• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 pound ground pork
• salt
• 3/4 cup dry white wine
• 1/3 cup tomato paste
• 4 bay leaves
• 1 ½ teaspoons dried oregano, preferably the Sicilian or Greek type dried on the branch, crumbled
• 3 to 4 cups hot water