Throw-the-diet-out-the-window sauce

Main Ingredient: Various herbs and spices
Course: Seasonings Sauces and dressings
Cuisine: Italian
Yield:

Throw-the-diet-out-the-window sauce ingredients

24 Italian plum tomatoes
1⁄2 c Unsalted butter
1 large Bunch fresh basil
-- leaves only
-- cut in strips
Salt and pepper to taste

Cooking Throw-the-diet-out-the-window sauce

1. Cut tomatoes into chunks, skin and all. Melt butter over medium heat.
2. Add tomatoes and basil.
3. Cook only as long as it takes to boil water and cook fettucini.
4. the editors wrote: "this sauce takes the prize for simplicity; and hey - there are worse things for you than a stick of butter.
5. (vicki also makes a cholesterol-free version with 2 tablespoons olive oil instead of butter.
6. ") recipe from vicki smith wadlow of the plains, va in "great spaghetti sauce cookoff" article in "the herb companion.
7. " dec. 1992/jan.
8. 1993, vol. 5, no. Pg.