EASY PIZZA SAUCE

How many times have you decided to "wing it" for lunch and make little pizza's on English muffins, or french bread pizza and at the last minute you realize you don't have pizza sauce in the pantry!?!?  Well, here is a great (and super simple) pizza sauce to the rescue!!

The first time I tasted pizza was  when someone cooked a Chef Boyardee pizza for me when I was a teenager; do they still sell those pizza kits? I remember thinking it was the best thing I had ever eaten!!! lol   So, when I got married,  pizza sauce was one of the first recipes I tried to "invent".  How hard could it be... a can of tomato sauce and a little oregano, right!?!?  NOT!!! It was awful.

After decades of tweaking, we love this sauce!!

¼ cup chopped onion
1 clove garlic minced

1 tablespoons olive oil
(1) 6 oz. can of tomato paste
(1½) 6 oz. can of water
1 teaspoon dry oregano
1 teaspoon dry basil
½ teaspoon fennel seeds (do not leave out)
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon black pepper
healthy pinch teaspoon dry red pepper flakes
1 teaspoon sugar (do not leave out)

In a heavy saucepan, saute the chopped onion and garlic (in the olive oil) until they are soft and aromatic.

Add everything else and simmer slowly for about 10 minutes and it's ready to use!!