A good basic tomato sauce – Food & Home Magazine

Ingredients

• 3 medium tomatoes, halved
• 45ml (3 tbsp) olive oil
• Maldon salt, to taste
• 2 anchovy fillets
• 1 medium onion, finely chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 carrot, grated
• 1 celery stick, finely chopped
• 2 x 410g tins whole peeled tomatoes, crushed with the juice
• 2 big tomatoes, peeled and grated
• a few fresh thyme stalks, only use the leaves
• 1 bay leaf
• salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
• a pinch of sugar
• 125ml (½ cup) white wine or water
• a handful of chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley and basil