One of my favourite movie food scenes is from Goodfellas, where Paulie slices garlic with a razor blade while making tomato sauce in prison. If they can make tomato sauce in prison (& 100 other things in a rice cooker) there's no reason you should be using tomato sauce from a jar.
This is how I make mine & it changes all the time, depending on what we have at home. But basically you just need two tins of tomatoes, an onion, sugar, olive oil, salt & wine or balsamic vinegar.
After heating a generous amount of good olive oil in the pan, add your finely chopped onion. As it cooks, cover it with about a teaspoon full of sugar so the onions caramelise. Yum!
When they're cooked, add your tomatoes. From now on, you just have to keep checking the flavour and that you have the right balance of sweet, salty, & acidic. So just keep your sugar, salt & cooking wine or balsamic vinegar nearby & add as needed.
In the picture above I've added porcini mushrooms - including some of the water I soaked them in. You of course can add basil, pesto or capers or a bit of chilli.
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