Cookbook:Easy Pasta Sauce

This a very easy and tasty pasta sauce. It's good with just pasta, and goes well with a lot of vegetables as well. The quantities of ingredients vary with the amount of pasta, and with your taste preferences.

Ingredients

 * Olive oil
 * Garlic cloves
 * Ripe tomatoes
 * Salt
 * Ground black pepper
 * Fresh cream
 * Oregano
 * Additional ingredients, as desired

Procedure

 * 1) Finely chop tomatoes or purée them in a food processor—this depends on what consistency you want. Chopping gives a chunkier sauce while using puréed tomatoes yields a smoother sauce.
 * 2) Grind garlic to paste.
 * 3) Heat oil in a frying pan. Using a pan with non-stick coating necessitates less oil.
 * 4) When oil is hot (but not too hot), turn down heat and add garlic paste.
 * 5) When garlic is golden-brown, add tomatoes.
 * 6) Tomatoes have to be cooked until done—they'll look and smell cooked instead of raw, and will be a deeper, redder colour.
 * 7) Add salt and pepper to taste.
 * 8) When tomatoes are almost done, add fresh cream to taste. Cook for about 30 seconds.
 * 9) Add oregano, then cook for another minute.
 * 10) Add cooked pasta and vegetables.
 * 11) Serve hot, garnished with herbs (e.g. basil, rosemary).