{"id":215,"date":"2014-02-04T01:10:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T01:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldofgrey.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2014-02-07T02:14:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T02:14:38","slug":"meatsauce-for-spaghetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worldofgrey.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Meatsauce for Spaghetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love an easy dinner and this qualifies.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t take long to put together, can simmer until whenever you&#8217;re ready to eat and is easy to freeze for future meals. This is one I&#8217;ve tweaked from my mom&#8217;s Spaghetti and Meatballs recipe&#8230;that recipe is OMGdelicious, but making meatballs is just too time consuming when you have a toddler running around. As soon as I get both hands meat-deep to make a ball, she&#8217;ll figure out how to pop the safety cover off an electrical outlet. So, until the kids are a little older, meat sauce it is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 lbs ground beef<\/li>\n<li>2 onions, chopped<\/li>\n<li>3 cloves of garlic<\/li>\n<li>2 16 oz cans of diced tomatoes (or 14.5 oz&#8230;whatever they sell these days)<\/li>\n<li>16 oz can of tomato sauce<\/li>\n<li>12 oz tomato paste (two small 6 oz cans)<\/li>\n<li>2 cups water<\/li>\n<li>4 tsp Italian Seasoning<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp dried basil<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp dried oregano<\/li>\n<li>2 (generous) TBSP brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>4 TBSP dried parsley<\/li>\n<li>3 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp ground pepper<\/li>\n<li>(optional) large can of sliced mushrooms OR 2 cups fresh mushrooms, sliced and sauteed in butter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What to do:<\/strong> In deep pot, brown the ground beef. Add the onion and saute until soft. Add in the garlic for a couple minutes. Add everything else and simmer for one-to-several hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love an easy dinner and this qualifies.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t take long to put together, can simmer until whenever you&#8217;re ready to eat and is easy to freeze for future meals. This is one I&#8217;ve tweaked from my mom&#8217;s Spaghetti and Meatballs recipe&#8230;that recipe is OMGdelicious, but making meatballs is just too time consuming when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldofgrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldofgrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldofgrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldofgrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldofgrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/worldofgrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"http:\/\/worldofgrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldofgrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldofgrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldofgrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}