Pasta with Homemade Pasta Sauce

This is a combination of several tomato sauce recipes and it varies each time, especially the amount of spices I use.
1 28 oz. can crushed tomatoes
1 16 oz. can tomato paste
1 cup water
1-1 1/2 cup chopped onions
1-1 1/2 cup chopped carrots
4 garlic cloves
2 Tsp sugar
2 Tsp dried Oregano
1/2 Tsp Salt

Sautee the onions, garlic and carrots in some olive oil...

...until they're nice and tender:

Add the rest of the ingredients except the ground beef:

Meanwhile brown the ground beef:

And then you add the meat to the sauce:

And there you have it! I cook it any time between 30 minutes to several hours, depending on how early I get started.

Serve it over spaghetti:

And with some Parmesan: