Here's how I make spaghetti

My friend Mark took me up on the offer of staying on my floor so now he's here for 3 weeks. I used to work with him at Canadian Tire.

I befriended a bar owner in Shibuya and I can now call his bar one of my 'hangouts.' It's a bourbon bar and he plays great music. Too bad I don't really drink.

Next Sunday, Mark and I will go to the Tokyo Game Show and then watch the Riff Randells (a Vancouver band) play live in Tokyo.

I'm making lots of extra dough teaching more private classes. I seem to be getting a new student inquiry every week. One of them is a professional drum teacher and he offered me free lessons. I told him that I couldn't accept payment from him for my English classes if he wouldn't accept payment for his drum lessons but he said he loves to teach and doesn't want my money. I will keep you informed on my "salary to drumming skills ratio."

Tonight we're using garlic, canned tomatoes, red bell pepper, onions, tomato paste, mushrooms, and ground beef.

Chop that shit fine.

Make sure you COOK the beef.

Brown that meat. Who doesn't like browning their meat?

Set the meat aside for later use.

Clean the pan and heat some olive oil.

Cook the garlic and then the onions.

Toss in the mushrooms for good measure.

Add the tomato paste.

Then dump in the canned tomatoes.

I think these are whole roma tomatoes. They work well.

Get the noodles going at the same time.

Toss the beef back into the mix.

Sweeten the deal with some brown sugar.

Add some basil and or-e-GA-no. What the hell?

Salt and pepper to taste. Lots of pepper for me.

Balsamic vinegar for color and a touch of sourness.

Shit's done. Good because I'm hungry.

A dash a parmesan so that I feel like I'm eating at the Old Spaghetti Factory.

Any other recipe suggestions?