"tomato" Sauce

Total Time: 2 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
• 1 (28 ounce) can whole tomatoes
• 1 teaspoon oregano
• 1 dried leaf basil (if i used any tomatoes canned with basil in the can i skip this ingredient)
• 1/2 onion, diced
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• 1 teaspoon sugar (or less... i sometimes leave this one out)
• 2 garlic cloves, diced
• 1 -2 teaspoon olive oil (enough to cover the bottom of the pan for sauteing)

Recipe

• 1 sauté garlic and onion in olive oil.
• 2 add tomato paste plus one can of water and simmer for a few minutes.
• 3 add strained can of whole tomatoes plus 1/2 can of the water from that can (i found this step annoying and silly and i always ended up adding more liquid in the process anyway! so i just throw the whole can in at this point - liquid and all plus a half of a can of water.).
• 4 add all of the remaining ingredients and cook for 2 hours (stir and enjoy the aroma intermittently throughout the process).