Vegetable Spaghetti Sauce

Mommy's Little Cook

Vegetable Spaghetti Sauce
Brown in large pot:
1# ground beef
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 onion, chopped

Take 1 whole butternut squash, cut in 1/2. Scoop out & discard seeds. Put face down on plate and microwave 10 min. Let sit in microwave another 5 min. Scoop out inner flesh, mash w/ potato masher.  You could always put in blender, too.

Add following ingredients:
(2) 29 oz cans tomato sauce
Mashed butternut squash
1-2 cups shredded zucchini
1/2 to 1/2 C. shredded carrots
Spices to your taste (basil, Italian seasoning, salt, pepper, garlic/ onion salt and/or powder, Mrs Dash, Lawry's Seasoning -- whatever is in your cupboard.)
1 bay leaf (take out before serving -- I always forget :))

Bring to boil.  Lower heat to simmer 1-2 hours.  Use what you want and freeze the rest.  This is an awesome recipe and a good way to get kids to eat their veggies.  Elizabeth LOVES spaghetti, and esp this recipe.  She was even helping me taste test and ended up w/ her own bowl of it, eating it like a soup.

Some recipes call for tomatoes, green peppers, mushrooms, fennel, or even broccoli and cauliflower.  But this is my doctored-up version that I thought I would share.  Plus I always lose this recipe and thought it would be easier to keep it on my blog to refer back to.