Bachelor's Spaghetti Sauce

One of my co-workers had leftover spaghetti and meat sauce for lunch a couple times this week, and it made me crave some. So yesterday, I looked up a recipe for meat sauce (I usually just heat up the canned junk) and found one called Bachelor's Spaghetti Sauce on the Taste of Home website. It had a lot more ingredients than the stuff I normally use, and required more work, but I decided What the hey, I'll try it!! And boy was it good!! I served it over whole wheat pasta. Although next time, I'll try it without mushrooms...because even though I love mushrooms, Dan hates them! (and yes, I made this yesterday and am just posting this....I got distracted by the tv show Bones after dinner.....)

~Bachelor's Spaghetti Sauce~

Ingredients:
1lb ground beef
1/2 lb fresh mushrooms, chopped
1 large onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced [I used my garlic press instead]
4 medium tomatoes, chopped [I used 2 large tomatoes]
12 oz tomato paste
1 cup water
2 tbsp soy sauce
3 bay leaves [I used 2 tsp dried bay leaves]
2 tsp each dried basil, oregano and parsley flakes
1 tsp salt
1 tsp honey
1/2 tsp each dried marjoram, thyme and rosemary, crushed [or flakes]
Dash pepper [I forgot this and it still turned out awesome]
Hot cooked spaghetti

Step 1: In a large skillet, cook beef, mushrooms, onion and garlic over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain.
Step 2: Add the tomatoes, tomato paste, water, soy sauce and seasonings. Mix.
Step 3: Cover and simmer for 20 minutes or until heated through. Discard bay leaves [if you used fresh].
Step 4: Serve over spaghetti.

Ingredients

Step 1: I broke up the beef a little before adding the other ingredients.

Step 1

Step 3 (finished)

Total time: 50 minutes

The overall time isn't too bad, considering 20 minutes of it is letting the sauce simmer. I would recommend pre-measuring all the herbs into a little bowl or something. It'll save time when you're trying to add everything after the first cooking stage is finished.