Suck

I've never successfully made a red sauce (i.e. Marinara or similar) from scratch. This approached success, but only got as far as the first syllable.

I read a few recipes and improvised.

Suck

1 diced onion

1/4 cup olive oil

2 tbsp. minced garlic

1 tsp. oregano powder

1 tsp. dry marjoram leaf

1 tsp. dry basil leaf

1 tsp. crushed red pepper

1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper powder

1 28 oz. can whole tomatoes (including juice)

1 6 oz. can tomato paste

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 jar Classico pesto sauce

Sauté the onion until golden brown, add garlic & everything else except the pesto. Simmer and stir, mashing the tomatoes up. When the sauce starts to thicken, transfer everything that looks solid to the blender and pulse it a couple times, returning to pan. Taste it, decide something's definitely missing, add the pesto and serve over pasta of your choice.

Something is still definitely missing, but the pesto addition helped a lot. I'm not a big red sauce fan most of the time, but the ones I like, Scimeca's Marinara, Garozzo's Diablo, they have something this lacked. They have Sess.