Marinara Sauce

Submitted by Sue Mortensen

(This is wonderful – and freezes really well)

Ingredients:

Approximately 20 plum tomatoes (nice red ones, chopped)
1 onion, chopped
4 to 5 cloves of fresh garlic, finely chopped
2 32 oz. cans of Contadina tomato sauce (unseasoned)
½ cup Parmesan cheese
Handful of fresh basil, chopped and 2 tbsp dried basil
2 tbsp dried oregano

Directions:

Cut off stem ends of tomatoes. Scoop/squeeze out and discard seeds. Chop tomatoes and onion and sauté in small amount of olive oil. Add garlic and cook for a few minutes and add fresh chopped basil, dried basil and oregano. Cook mixture for about 10 minutes over medium heat. Add tomato sauce and Parmesan cheese. Cook for a least an hour. Don’t let the sauce boil too hard.
Boil water and cook pasta.