Theres nothing better than a fresh tomato sauce, and roasting the tomatoes first takes even that up a notch. Here is a very quick recipe for a simple tomato sauce with fresh roasted tomatoes. Fresh from the garden tomatoes of course are the best, but you can make this with store bought tomatoes as well and it will still taste amazing. Most commercial sauces have a lot of sugar in them, but roasting the tomatoes concentrates the flavor and natural sweetness so adding sugar isn't necessary.

This requires a good blender. I love my Vitamin. Having a high powered blender saves you the time of having to bother with peeling or seeding the tomatoes - it all just purees to a smooth sauce so doing those extra steps isn’t necessary.

Fresh Roasted Tomato Sauce Recipe

Ingredients:

• Tomatoes - I like Roma for sauce, but this works with any kind.

• olive oil

• salt

• garlic

• onion

• basil

Instructions:

Quarter the tomatoes and spread out on a baking sheet. Add a few cloves of garlic, or more if you like, and some roughly chopped onion. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle a little salt.

Roast at 350 for about an hour, or until the onions are garlic are soft and have developed a nice bit of color.

Dump everything in the blender and puree until smooth. Taste and add more salt if needed. Add fresh basil leaves and puree just until the basil is blended in. Serve on freshly cooked pasta.