Basic Tomato Sauce

This Basic Quick Tomato Sauce is the sauce base I use for nearly all the tomato pasta dishes we eat at home. It’s also good on our Chicken Meatloaf. It is... the easiest thing you could ever make, and it’s quick. You can start the sauce at the same time you boil water for pasta and be finished before the pasta has even finished cooking. In the summer when local tomatoes are cheap and good, this is a great basic sauce to make for the freezer — just omit the hot pepper and cheese. In the wintertime, you can use canned diced tomatoes instead of fresh. When you use canned, halfway through the cooking add about ¼ to ½ a teaspoon of brown sugar.