Working with a food processor or blender, combine and process the tomatoes with the olive oil, salt, pepper, sugar, and vinegar. The finished composition makes for a rough-textured sauce. Warm the sauce through and serve it as is over pasta, or combine with any of the following ingredients to present a flavorful adaptation of your basic tomato sauce.

To 1 1/2 cups sauce, add:

1/4 cup fresh basil, chopped Or

1/4 cup Greek or Italian Olives, chopped with 1 1/2 tsp. Finely grated Orange Peel Or

1/2 cup Feta Cheese crumbled with 3/4 tsp. Dried Rosemary Or

3 Tbs. Toasted Peanuts and 4 to 6 thin slices or Prosciutto, cut into bits Or

3 Tbs. Capers with 2 Tbs. Chopped fresh Parsley Of course, you can prepare nearly any tomato sauce from scratch by utilizing concoctions from our Sauce Basics recipe collection, found here: http://www. Recipe-a-day. Com/sauce. Html

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