Mom's Sunday Night Meat Sauce

By ngaldi

Ingredients

• 1 pound freshly ground round steak
• 1 pound mushrooms, sliced
• 1 onion, diced
• 3 - 4 cloves garlic, minced
• fresh Italian parsley, to taste
• fresh basil, to taste
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
• 1/4 teaspoon oregano
• crushed red pepper to taste
• 2 16 ounce cans whole italian tomatoes. diced, reserve juice
• 1 4 ounce can tomato sauce
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1/4 - 1/2 cup dry red wine

Details

Servings 6

Preparation

Step 1

Saute ground beef and drain fat. In the same pan, sauté onions and garlic in olive oil until soft. Add mushrooms, spices and herbs and sauté mushrooms until softened. Add the chopped tomatoes, juices and tomato sauce and adjust your seasonings. Put in the bay leaf, red wine and let cook on a low simmer, stirring often, for about an hour.
Remove the bay leaf and serve over cooked pasta.