For a really tasty tomato sauce try Marcella Hazan's Tomato Sauce with Onion and Butter

[sylvia]

This sauce was excellent. I made one portion of spaghetti and used about 1/3 of the sauce on it because we like pasta saucy. DH used another 1/3 of the sauce on his portion and declared it "Delicious!".

I used 2 lbs of Roma tomatoes, skinned and roughly chopped.

http://www.eat.at/swap/forum/index.php?action=display&forumid=1&msgid=194166

 

[lisainla]

Thanks for reminding me of this one - we used it to taste test canned tomatoes to see

if we could:

A) Taste the difference between brands

smileys/cool.gif Find out if we preferred San Marzano Italian Grown tomatoes vs "San Marzano Style" or "regular" canned tomatoes

Surprisingly, it is a very nicely flavored sauce without a bunch of extra ingredients required.

 

[angak1]

which tomatoes did you prefer?

 

[angak1]

yes, thanks for the reminder. this is in T&T and if you click on the link, it's a thread with

lots of good info. well, click on the link at the link.

http://www.eat.at/swap/forum18/17_Tomato_Sauce_with_Onions_and_Butter

 

[sylvia]

I agree that it's a good starter sauce. It was even better the next day. I made it using 2 lbs of

Roma tomatoes.

 

[lisainla]

Side by side, we preferred the Italian SMs, but for the price difference -

we decided that the taste difference wasn't significant enough to pay for the costlier imports for most dishes we eat.

I did discover another type/brand that are very good - our store brand private label San Marzanos, I get them at Ralphs. I made the simple sauce last night with them, and they were very good, and for only $1.79 per 28 oz can, a steal!

Imported San Marzanos run $4-$5 here for the same size can.