Red Sauce

Ingredients

• 4 TBL spoons Olive Oil
• onion — ⚠ quantity not stated on the card
• 6 garlic cloves minced
• 2 – 28 oz crushed tomatos (spelled as written — two 28 oz cans)
• 2 tsp Basal (basil, spelled as written)
• 2 tsp oragano (spelled as written)
• 2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp pepper
• 1 cup water

Method

Sata onion in oil, add garlic. (sauté, spelled as written) Add rest of ing. Simmer 45 min.

Notes

Written in pencil on ruled notebook paper, with the title "Red Sauce" gone over in heavy marker — the writer wanted to find it fast in a stack.

⚠ The onion quantity is not on the card. One onion is the obvious reading for this volume of sauce, but the card does not say so and it is not invented here.

A plain, confident weeknight sauce — no sugar, no meat, no wine, 45 minutes. The 2:1 basil-to-nothing ratio and the full two teaspoons of salt say this was written by someone who made it often enough to stop measuring carefully.