I don't eat a ton of pasta these days, so I've found myself going through an unfun pattern w/r/t pasta sauce. To wit: cook pasta, open jar of sauce, use approximately 1/8 of it, cook more pasta, grab jar of sauce from fridge, realize it's been several months and the sauce is crusty and ugh and have to go back to the drawing board.
Waste of money, food and fridge space. Yay!
So this time I went a better route - threw together a quick sauce from scratch instead of popping open the jar. I've done this once or twice before and the end result is the same - why the hell do I ever buy sauce in the first place?
Super simple and easy. Sauteed garlic in olive oil, add a can of tomatoes* salt, pepper, stir and smush at a simmer for a few minutes. Add fresh basil and toss with pasta. I also browned some (Tofurkey) sausage and threw that in. OMG the yum. So fresh tasting and much more satisfying than bought sauce and really not that much more trouble.
(*I've heard that whole canned tomatoes have better flavor than diced. Something about extra additives they use to keep the diced from turning into mush. Diced is what I had, so diced is what I used. Maybe next time I'll try the whole ones. )
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