I had a little cooking bug last weekend. I don’t usually do that but I was going to the store and couldn’t think of what to make for dinner  and I went searching on AllRecipes.com and got lost.  Most of the recipes seemed a little hard for me, plus many of them just had bad ingredients that I couldn’t eat. :( So I was thinking about spaghetti sauce.  It has onions and garlic in it but I was thinking if I didn’t do so much of those ingredients I would be fine so I decided to try it.

It was fabulous! I’m so in love with throwing this stuff in the pot, having it simmer, and come out so tasty at the end. Yummers! I do think some of the ingredients were bad for me though so I will have to play with it.  I’m still not sure if I can eat meat and be okay, or if it was all the garlic salt and chopped onions I put in.  Or it could have been something entirely different that I ate over the weekend. I hate my diet. :) On the happy weight news, I’m still pretty damn low and saw someone I haven’t seen for about a year yesterday and they said, ‘Wow! You look GREAT! Have you lost weight?’  Um, yes, yes I have! Thank you very much!

The even BETTER news was…. GRIFFIN ATE THE WHOLE THING.  And then he ate his sisters.  I swear, why won’t he eat when he is starving? He waits for something tasty and then gobbles it.  I might have to make a huge batch every week and feed it to him every night.

The Ingredients to my Easy Homemade Spaghetti Sauce with Veggies:

1 pound lean ground beef
1/4 cup chopped onion
2 (14.5 ounce) cans tomato sauce
1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon dried oregano
Handful of mushrooms, enough to satisfy me
Slices of zucchini cut up into small small pieces. Chopped you might say.
Slices of yellow squash, cut up.
In a large saucepan over medium heat, cook ground beef with onion until brown; drain. Stir tomatoes, tomato paste, sugar, garlic powder, oregano and mushrooms & veggies into beef mixture. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer one hour. Serve over hot pasta.

I was going off of two different recipes so it’s slightly random.  It also called for a tablespoon of basil but I didn’t have that but other recipes called for sugar, so I added sugar instead.  I prefer thick sauce so I might do more tomato paste next time.  I was so amazed that with the tiny chopped up veggies just evaporated into the sauce after an hour of simmering time.  They were there though! My kids ate them!

We also served this over wheat pasta.

Enjoy! Leave a comment below if you have a better homemade spaghetti sauce that you serve at home. I’d love to hear it.

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Wordless Wednesday – Ear Mites

by Kristi on March 10, 2010 · 2 comments


Griffin has this ‘thing’ about sticking things in his ear. It’s his comfort zone, having something hang out by his ear. Usually it’s his lovey but it can be anything, superheros, cars, and even Sam’s toes!

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Borders True Romance Guest Post

February 27, 2010

I”m terribly excited this morning because I just checked my favorite romance blog, Borders True Romance, and my review of Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah has been posted! Please go check out my review and the Borders True Romance blog and leave me a comment! I was so happy to be chosen as a guest [...]

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Brea 8k

February 25, 2010

I have somehow been talked into running (walking? limping?) the Brea 8k this Sunday!! About 5 miles, I think?  They have all these yummah restaurants sponsoring the run and will have tons of food at the end. Will that be a sufficient carrot stick to get me to the end? Luckily my walking partner is [...]

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Deliciously Tired

February 13, 2010

I’ve been trying to walk more and some of my friends actually… jog. I know, who does that, right?
But this morning Griffin got up at god’awful o’clock and Sam shortly later and since there is only so much TV they can watch without me feeling lime a horrible Mother, I tossed them in the [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Good Friends

February 10, 2010
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Fun Morning

January 27, 2010

It’s the little things…
My wonderful Mama had us over for dinner last night and took BOTH kids overnight and through the morning.  So I woke up this morning and turned on the news! I adore watching the news, ABC all the way. I’m so sad Diane Sawyer is not on anymore though.  I will spend [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Feeding the Ducks

January 27, 2010

Feeding the ducks at the park after the Great Thunderstorms of 2010.

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Wordless Wednesday – Haiti

January 20, 2010

Sam, donating money to Haiti from her piggy bank.

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Wordless Wednesday – Reading

January 13, 2010

A love of reading. I can’t teach them anything better.

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My Must-Read Authors

January 10, 2010

If anyone knows me at all, they know I am reader.  Mostly romance but I read books all the time.  Constantly.  I know myself, and I know if I want to get anything done I can’t be in the middle of a book.  If I am in the middle of the book… I. Must. Finish. [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Sunset

January 7, 2010

January 1, 2010
The first sunset of the new year. Simply amazing.

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It’s a New Year

January 1, 2010

Ahhh, the wonderful New Year’s post! I’ve read so many of them today already.  It really doesn’t feel quite like a new year yet, maybe it will on Monday when we get into the normal routine of things.  We had a wonderful Christmas break though. I read tons of books on my new Kindle (love [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Champs Elysee

December 30, 2009

December 31, 2004. Paris, France
Avenue des Champs Elysees
At the Arc de Triomphe looking down the lighted street to Roue de Paris on the Place de la Concorde

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Family Girls Night

December 23, 2009

My Mom and her sisters, sister-in-law, and friends have always had fun martini nights.  The younger ‘children’ have always been sad to watch them go because we wanted to join them!! Well, we are now all old enough to do so.  Well, except for Dana.  Sadly, a few of the girl cousins were [...]

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