I enjoy this recipe as it comes across as slightly different and healthier than buying spaghetti sauce in a jar. It does give you extra sauce. I like to add mushrooms and extra sausage to it. It is from the back of a Holland House Red Cooking Wine bottle. I have tried this with different wines. The cooking wine is the most affordable, however, I tasted a sip of it and thought it was very bad tasting. Definitely something you would not want to drink by itself. I have also tried it with cans of diced tomatoes and even plum tomatoes. I will stock up with the cans of tomatoes at the store. I have added canned tomatoes to rice in the rice cooker. This is a fairly quick recipe and the website cookingwine.com or mizkan.com has lots of similar recipes I am looking forward to trying.

Ingredients

• 2 Tbsp. olive oil
• 3/4 cup onion, chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 6 oz. bacon, cooked, drained, chopped
• 2 (28 oz each) cans plum or crushed tomatoes
• 1 tsp. sugar
• 1 cup Holland House Red Cooking Wine
• Ground pepper and red pepper flakes, to taste
• Parmesan cheese (optional)
• 1 lb pasta, cooked

Directions

Heat oil in heavy pan over medium heat. Saute onion until soft. Stir in garlic and bacon for 3 minutes. Stir in tomatoes, sugar, wine and spices. Simmer on low, uncovered for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Serve over pasta, with cheese. Serves 6.

Source

Holland House Red Wine Cooking Bottle (cookingwine.com or mizkan.com)

Websites from some of the ingredients used:

• essentialeverday.com (can of mushrooms has recipe for individual quiche biscuits on can)
• classico.com (four cheese pasta sauce)
• bilinski.com (sun-dried tomato chicken sausage, website has recipes)
• deifratelli.com (can of diced tomatoes, has recipe for tomato beef macaroni inside label)
• marathonhealthyfoods.com (southwestern chicken patties)