Weekend Dinner - Linguine in Turkey Meat Sauce

So we went out to brunch @ Outerlands & brought home a loaf of their delicious bread.  What can one do with a whole loaf of bread?  We thought: garlic bread!  But we can't really eat just garlic bread for dinner, can we?  So to have something accompany the bread, I whipped together my own spin on the classic spaghetti & meat sauce.

What I dug out from my fridge...
     1/2 box of linguine
     1 pound ground turkey
     2 medium tomato
     2 cups white button mushrooms
     1/2 jar of tomato basil pasta sauce
     Several fresh basil leaves
     Garlic, salt, pepper, &  chipotle powder to taste

How I made something edible from the ingredients above...
     Fill a large pot half way up with water & start getting it to a boil.
     In a large bowl, mix the ground turkey with some salt & pepper to give it some flavor.
     Put some oil into a large pan & heat it up.  Brown the ground turkey.  I found it easier if you let the meat sit for a little bit & then break it up into little clumps.
     Drain the water/juice from the ground turkey and let it sit.
     While the turkey was cooking, cut the tomatoes into segments and remove the seeds.  Then cut them into large dices.  Wash the mushrooms, dry them, & cut them into slices.
     Once the pot of water starts to boil, salt it generously and then put in the linguine.  Cook the noodles to 1 minute less than the instruction on the box (mine took 9 minutes).
     In the same pan you browned the turkey, heat up a little bit of oil & some minced garlic.  Once the garlic turns a little bit brown, toss in the mushroom & let them wilt down a little bit.
     Add in the turkey & the tomato sauce & let the whole thing simmer for 5 minutes.
     Season with salt, pepper, & chipotle powder (optional) & toss in the tomato dices.
     Keep the sauce on the lowest heat possible until the linguine is ready.
     Roll up the basil leaves tightly & cut into thin strips...or chiffonade if you want to get all technical.
     Just before you add the pasta into the sauce, toss in the basil.  Quickly incorporate everything & serve.

From beginning to end it took about 45 minutes & there was enough for 4.  The chipotle powder gave a good dose of spiciness & the sauce was perfect for the garlic bread to soak up.