Real Baby Food is out this week (yay!), and one of my favorite recipes in it, one I make almost on a weekly basis is the
Go-To Tomato Sauce in the Dinner chapter. Inspired by Marcella Hazan's
classic version, this sauce is brilliant in its simplicity. Aside from one cut (slicing an onion in half) there is no chopping involved. Just simmer a can of crushed tomatoes with some aromatics for half an hour--and voila--you have a light, tangy, crowd-pleasing tomato sauce perfect for coating pasta, dipping polenta diamonds, baking eggs, topping pizza, or assembling these Saucy Meatball Sliders. I frequently make a double batch and freeze half to use down the road.
After making it once you will too I bet.
The recipe: