A Very Satisfying Pasta Sauce

Taken with a Canon Eos 350d with Vivatar macro lens

You can buy pasta sauce in a jar. You can also buy a Sunday lunch in a frozen fast food box but sometimes it's nice to make your own isn't it? This one requires almost no work at all. All you need is 2 red peppers, a pack of tomatoes and a basil plant on your windowsill (and maybe a little bit of tomato puree in your fridge).

SAUCE
Slice your pepper into long strips and put in a small oven dish, splash with olive oil and season with a pinch of salt and a grind of black pepper.
You'll need twice as many tomatoes to peppers for this and you don't want them too small otherwise it will cook down to mush. Cut your tomatoes in half from top to bottom.

Tip 1. don't cut through the stalk, cut to the side of it, that way you only have to cut one bit of stalk out. simple.

Pop your tomatoes into a separate oven dish and splash some olive oil, S&P and a sprinkle of sugar over them and roast both the tomatoes and peppers in a hot oven at 180c for 35 minutes. After 35 minutes check then to make sure that they're not burning, if they are just mix them around a little (now's the time to make your pasta. Linguine, fettuccine or tagliatelle would be best ), turn the oven down and leave them cooking for another 10-15 minutes.
Remove from the oven and lightly mash them with a fork, squeeze in about a table spoon of tomato puree and mix again. Drain your pasta and add to the tomatoes, tear up some basil and mix it all together. top with cheese if you like and serve...with a beer