Does anyone have a good recipe for...?

I give you 2 recipes:

Ingredients

4 tablespoons olive oil

1 onion, chopped

3 tomatoes, chopped

1 to 2 tablespoons tomato purée

salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

Preparation method

1. In a large pan over medium heat, cook onion in olive oil until translucent. Stir in tomatoes, cook until juice begins to thicken. Stir in tomato purée, salt and pepper. Reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes more, until rich and thick.

Ingredients

5-6 tomatoes - diced

1 garlic clove

1 onion

1/2 cup water

1 bay leaf

1/2 tsp sugar

4-5 basil leaves

1 tbsp onions - chopped

1/2 tbsp chopped garlic

salt - to taste

oil - to saute

Method:

Take a pan and cook the tomatoes. Add the clove of garlic, onion and bay leaf to it.

Add water and then season with salt and sugar. Cover and let the tomatoes boil. Cool and then grind to a puree.

Now in a separate pan, heat oil and add chopped onions and chopped garlic.

Add the tomato puree. Cook till its reduces to half.

Add basil leaves and keep aside.

Tomatoes - doesn't get any simpler. Didn't like that one? OK, then - Lloyd Grossman Tomato & Basil sauce is good. If you want to get as complicated as the other suggestions (Ratz - 2/3 cup olive oil? Wow!) then:-

Can chopped tomatoes

2 or 3 plum tomatoes or a good hanful of cherry tomatoes

Basil

Oregano

Salt

Pepper

Onion

Garlic

Green Pepper

Red Pepper

1 Kenyan Chilli - seeds removed

Dash of demerara sugar

Balsamic vinegar

Squirt of tomato ketchup

tomato puree

red wine

That's basically mine and it's the dogs - but you did say SIMPLE!!

2/3 cup extra virgin olive oil, 1 white onion, 5 cloves garlic, 3 mushrooms, 1 can tomato sauce, 1 can diced tomatoes, 1 can water, 1 tsp oregano, 1 tbsp heaping basil, 1 tbsp heaping parsley, 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper.

Saute the olive oil, onions, garlic, mushroom 5 minutes, add everything else and simmer an hour, stirring often.

1 can of crushed tomatoes with basil.

Olive oil

Garlic

Saute the garlic in olive oil add tomatoes and heat through. Done!

Any of the above are ok...but l would ditch the olive oil for rapeseed oil. For a start olive oil tastes rank, and secondly rapeseed oil is far healthier...recommended by my husbands dietician.

Yes.