Tonight I’m making my home made tomato meat sauce and spaghetti for dinner. Yummy!
Ok it’s not totally home made … what I do is combine a canned of stewed tomatoes and a jar of tasty tomato sauce, a pinch or two of Italian seasoning, plus some extra Thyme and Basil, some ground pepper, and my “secret ingredient” two tbsp of brown sugar.
Then I fry up about a pound of lean or extra lean hamburger and once it’s cooked I add it to the sauce mixture and let it simmer for an hour or more on low heat. I almost never use regular ground beef as it’s too greasy … plus if I did I’d have to use something like Fastin to keep the weight off! LOL
Once the sauce is almost done I measure out enough spaghetti for my husband and I (with a small helping for our dog!) and cook that for the required amount of time – usually between 8 and 11 minutes depend upon what brand of spaghetti I’m using or what kind (ie whole wheat versus regular).
Once the Spaghetti is done I toss it in a tiny bit of olive oil, serve it in bowls or on plates and then top it with some of the delicious sauce. I think most people mix the sauce and spaghetti or toss them together, but I just like the sauce on top and I mix it as I eat my meal.
Since there’s only two of us, the meat sauce mixture makes enough for about 8 meals … so I often freeze half of the sauce to use a week or so later and then we eat Spaghetti for two days or so with the sauce I didn’t freeze.
I like making big batches of food – It’s not easy cooking for two, and since I don’t feel all that well quite a bit of the time it’s nice to have food that’s already cooked that we can just thaw or heat up easily … or rather that my husband can heat up if I’m really feeling bad. LOL
Do you ever make your own meat sauce for spaghetti? Do you make extra food (whatever kind) to freeze for later use?
What a clever recipe hahaha but sounds yummy still. My wife also did that freezing the left over sauce. then when she prepare snack for the kids on sunday she uses to make a homemade bread pizza she just spread some sauce on a bread and put bits of anything and cheese then heat up and you have a tasty snack for the kids
hmmmm…. this is such a yummy recipe… thanks for sharing it.. i better try this one now.. hahahaha
well i would say my friend who is a non veg liked this recipe a lot well i am pure veg so..mm not much
Gadget it doesn’t have to be made with ground beef. We eat vegetarian quite often. When I make a version of this recipe vegetarian I make the sauce without the ground beef but then I’ll stir in some spinach leaves just before serving. Tastes great.
How funny, that is exactly what i am going to eat to night.
But ok, next after pizza, it must be one of the most eaten things in the western world.
It looks like very delicious to me but i don’t exactly know that will it be healthy for me? But will love to try it once.
Hey there!
That spaghetti sauce sounds about how my mom would have made it, except that she’d add a small can of tomato paste for a deep tomato flavor. Yummm! I usually leave out the meat though.
@MessageForce – this is a very healthy dish. Tomato sauce is very delicious and nutritious.
I like to cook big pots of food, too. At first I was not comfortable with this as a lot of money could be wasted if the recipe wasn’t any good. Once I have a dish that is foolproof, then I will make a big batch of it so some can be frozen for another day. Half of the Thanksgiving leftover turkey, a la ‘turkey and noodles’, was put in the freezer yesterday. It’s a great way to have meals on hand and to take advantage of the time it took to make the dish in the first place.
Thanks for sharing your recipe!
Thanks very much for that! My mother recently harvested a garden full of tomatoes before the winter really set in, and I find myself the owner of two or five buckets worth! Of course I couldn’t eat them all, but I did find a website full of loads more tomato recipes at this site. A website dedicated the topic!! Crazy what you can find on the internetz these days!!