Tomato Sauce

This is very useful: you can use it as a simple sauce for pasta, in a lasagne, to stuff vegetables or to add to soup. I like to dip good bread in it. It keeps so well in the fridge (about a week) or the freezer (indefinitely) that you may as well make a big batch – it doubles or even triples up really easily. This recipe makes enough for our Aubergine Parmigiana.

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