It’s so easy and quick to prepare meals when you already have sauce bases ready and waiting in the fridge, as I showed you two weeks ago with the “soffritto-ish” sauce bases; and this pasta sauce, combining equal parts sauce base and tomatoes, with or without chorizo, is just perfect !
Why with or without the sausage ? Because the sauce base, rich in garlic and 3 different paprikas (sweet red, smoked red and green) already tastes like chorizo, whether you add some meat in or not.
Early winter will not guarantee the best tomatoes, so cherry or small vine tomatoes are a great option, unless you have to use canned tomatoes. I prefer a chunkier sauce and cherry tomatoes tend to be good all year round.
If you don’t have the sauce base ready (see the 4 different recipes here), but make the one with onions and mixed bell peppers, just follow the instructions and begin a few hours earlier. Otherwise, the whole meal can be ready in under 15 minutes.
It snowed here, for many hours, which is very rare in Paris and I’m itching to decorate for the holidays, but it’s too early, unless I just set everything up and just wait until December 1st to flick on the switches for all the string lights, just begging to sparkle and twinkle.
Are your holiday menus on your mind yet ?! … :)
