Pasta Sauce with Personality

Tired of the same boring old sauce you buy form the store?  Here is a GREAT way to give your store bough sauce some personality.  I promise this is super easy and it will taste delicious! I added the sweet onions just as a side dish but you can roast pretty much anything if you don't like onions.  Squash, zucchini, etc. Never have boring sauce again :)

Ingredient List

• One large or two vidalia onions, sliced into 1 in thick slices
• 6-12 Roma tomatoes, sliced in half
• 1 head of garlic
• 2 tbs EVOO
• 1 tbs butter
• 2 small shallots or 1 large, diced
• 1 jar of store bought marinara sauce
• 1 tbs sliced basil

 Let's give your sauce some personality

• Preheat your oven to the highest setting on your oven (mine was 500 deg)
• Roma tomatoes: cut in half length wise 
• A whole head of garlic (minus one clove to be used later) separated into sections with the skin still on
• Vidalia sweet onions cut into one inch thick slices
• Lay them all out on a cookie sheet 
• Toss with EVOO and salt and pepper
• Flip the tomatoes cut side down 
• Slide the cookie sheet into the oven and roast for 25-30 mins or until the tomatoes look wilted and have charred skins

While the tomatoes are roasting let's get some more things going for the sauce

• One tbs of EVOO and one tbs butter into a large deep pan on medium heat
• Two small shallots or one large diced sauteed into the pan until they soften
• Add one clove of diced or grated garlic
• Saute for an additional minute
• Add store bought sauce
• At this point the roasted tomatoes should be close to being done, when they are take them out and dice them into small pieces, they should be very mushy
• Add the diced roasted tomatoes and roasted garlic into the sauce
• Add 1 tbs of fresh basil at the very end for a fresh flavor

Now your pasta sauce has some personality :):)