Creamy Tomato Pasta Sauce

This pasta sauce fro Patricia Wells is truly my favorite pasta sauce recipe. It is elegant, simple and my comfort food go to.

Ingredients:  

1-28 ounce can crushed tomatoes or peeled plum tomatoes in their juice

¼ cup Extra virgin olive oil

4 Plump cloves of garlic, minced

1 cup Heavy cream

½ tsp crushed red pepper flakes or to taste

Sea salt to taste

Directions:

In a large unheated skillet, combine the oil, garlic, salt and pepper. Stir to coat with the oil. Cook over moderate heat for 2-3 min. until the garlic turns golden not brown. If using whole tomatoes, run them through a food mill directly over the skillet.

Crushed tomatoes can be added straight from the can. Stir to blend and simmer, uncovered, for 15 min. until the sauce begins to thicken.

Add the cream, stir, and heat for 1 min. Taste for seasonings. Use over 1 lb. of pasta or with fresh lasagna

Making your own pasta for lasagna is a plus, incorporating the herbs while rolling out the pasta dough is a spring touch.