It was my first try at making my spaghetti sauce and like so many others found this recipe to be easy and terrific. I used two cans of tomato sauce instead of diced tomatoes because it was what I had and it turned out terrific!

Absolutely delicious! This was my first try and I will never go back to a jar sauce again. The red wine definitely makes the sauce! I recommend using 1/3 the amount of red pepper flakes (I trippled the recipe) it came out a little on the hot side. Other than that I wouldn't change a thing and my mother made homemade sauce every Sunday. I made homemade meatballs instead of the sausage and served the parmesean garlic bread from this site on the side.

Great recipe! Made this with HOT Italian sausage and a bit of the red pepper, a 1/2 teaspoon of fennel, and a dash of rosemary, and we got a great, spicy, flavorful spaghetti sauce! Next time we'll probably use regular Italian sausage, perhaps halved with ground beef, and I'm sure it'd be great.

Best sauce I ever made. I did not realize how important red wine is until I read the reviews of spaghetti sauces on allrecipes.com. I appreciate everyone's input!

This was great, thank you. For my substitutions, I used a 26oz bottle of strained tomatoes instead of whole peeled tomatoes. For one, my Organic co-op doesn't have whole peeled tomatoes, and for two, the strained makes great pasta sauce (it even says so on the bottle, lol!) Also, it didn't exactly tell you what to do with the Italian sausage, so my idea was to take it out of the casing (I got my sausage uncooked, NOT smoked like they usually sell) and crumbled it. Then I added all this to the sauce pot. Other than that, I will definitely be using this recipe again!

Very good sauce. For the red wine I used Chianti, and it came out perfect!!

Very good sauce! The only change I made was I used fresh tomatoes instead of canned.

This was good.I slow cooked it in a crock pot for about 4-5 hours. I didn't have the sausage on hand, so I baked some homemade meatballs. I threw them in the sauce the last 2 hours. I also used fresh herbs from my garden instead of dried.

This recipe is really simplistic but absolutely wonderful. I did have to make a couple of changes. Instead of 1/4 cup of wine, I added 1 cup of low sodium chicken broth. I used a 28 oz. can of crushed tomatoes. Also I only had ground oregano, so I used 1/2 tsp of that. Otherwise it is just like the recipe and it makes enough to divide and freeze half. I won't ever buy sauce from the store again. Thanks for a great new favorite in our house!

This turned out so very thick and so very delicious. I doubled the recipe, used the slow-cooker and froze several containers. Next time, I'll make the sauce without meat and add sausage or meatballs when I serve it. Sooo much better than store-bought and the house smelled wonderful.

I'm not a fan of spaghetti sauce, but this was really good! The red wine really made the flavor stand out. I added ground turkey because I don't eat pork but the sauce was better w/out it! I will be making this again. Even my eleven year old picky eater liked this one.

This is a good, tasty sauce recipe. I didn't use the sausage. I used ground beef instead. Next time I'll try it with sausage. I added some Spicy Spaghetti seasoning and some fresh sliced mushrooms.

This sauce was extremely tasty, far better than what you would get in the jar. I followed this recipe as written except that I added a finely chopped red bell pepper and about 1.5 cups of finely chopped mushrooms. I also used italian spiced ground turkey meat in leu of the sausage. We put the sauce on whole wheat fettucini, and it was probably the best pasta I've ever made at home.

This spaghetti sauce recipe is incredible! Simple ingredients combine for a rich, flavorful result. I have made this recipe 2x in 1 week and the last time I doubled it so I could put half of it in the freezer. Don't let the simplicity of it full you. We had a favorite sauce made in our area that I always purchased...no need to anymore. This is my family's new favorite!

this is a good basic recipe; thick and rich-however in the future I will eliminate the sugar, and instead add a little salt to balance out the flavors.

Awesome recipe! I've been cooking for a long long time, but just recently started making sauce from scratch (I don't think I'll ever go back to jar sauce)...I LOVED this recipe..so easy and yummy! The family loved it too! Thanks!!!