chunky pesto sauce

Bit of a disclaimer on this one – I made this up. It’s not actually pesto at all. Basically, it’s a sort of a ragu (only not really), with traditional pesto ingredients thrown in to tie it all together. Make sense so far? Good.

If you love the flavors of italian sausage, peppers, and onions, but also really love a good tomato sauce and a good pesto sauce, then this is the answer to all of your sauce-based prayers and postulations. It truly covers all of those bases.

bandwagon tomato sauce

If you give me a choice between tomato sauce or cream sauce, nine times out of ten I’m going to choose the cream sauce. It’s rich, flavorful, and usually involves cheese. Well, I’m here to tell you that this tomato sauce hits two of the three points. AND! It only has three ingredients.

Food blog readers have probably seen this recipe on at least four other blogs by now, but on the off chance you haven’t yet come across it, I’d like to be responsible for your tomato-y happiness.

Your mind is – no doubt – racing, trying to guess the three ingredients that could comprise such an amazing tomato sauce. “It’s probably some expensive truffle oil nonsense,” right? Nope! Are you ready?