Fresh Tomato, Lemon, and Olive Oil Sauce

This sauce can easily becomes an obsession because it tastes so good and is so easy to make. On warm pasta, pasta salad, grilled fish hot or cold, asparagus hot or cold, meat, and as a snack on grilled garlic bread, it’s sublime. For me the explosion of herb perfume that arises when the sauce is poured over hot vegetables or pasta is what summer is all about, even in the middle of winter (if the tomatoes are ripe). The sauce tastes best if made half an hour before you want to use it.