Quick Tomato Sauce

With a large inflow of tomatoes from my garden, I have been eating pasta with tomato sauce 5 out of 7 days of the week. Each time I make it the sauce is a little different. The sauce below is one I made for friends we had over for dinner - it is for 1.5 lbs of pasta.

1 pound chicken sausage, diced
1 can tomato paste
10-12 fresh tomatoes
Italian Seasoning
2 Bay Leaves
4 cloves Garlic
1 Onion
salt/pepper
red pepper flakes
olive oil
Dash of beer

Pour some oil in a frying pan and add sausage. Cook. When mostly done, add half can of tomato paste and a dash of beer to help thin out the paste (could also use wine or water). Mix all together and finish cooking. Remove from heat.

In saucepan, add oil, garlic and onions. Cook until onions are soft. Add the tomatoes, sausage mixture, remaining paste & all seasonings. Mix well.

Bring to a boil and simmer/light boil it to reduce water for 20 or so minutes - until sauce looks a little thicker.

If you have bread on hand, it tastes great sopping up any leftover paste/sausage juice in the pan you cooked the sausage in. So good in fact, that after I run out of tomatoes I may try to make a sauce based on sausage, tomato paste and beer.

Once sauce is done serve over any short pasta with a side of bread and a glass of wine and enjoy.