Sawsheezle does pizza: Part 2 - Sauce

You've got to have sauce right? There are many ways to acquire pizza sauce, but Sawsheezle is trying to be as frugal as possible so here is his attempt at making his own. Ingredients roundup:

1 big can of peeled tomatoes
1 Tbsp of crushed garlic
1 Tbsp oregano
1 Tbsp basil
1 Tbsp thyme
0.5 Tbsp red pepper flakes
1 Tbsp sugar
salt, pepper to taste
1 onion halved

Get the garlic going in the bottom of a sauce pan with some olive oil. Preheat the oven to 325 deg F.

After a minute or so on the stove top, add in the tomatoes and the rest of the ingredients. Stir together. The onion is there to impart some flavor and sweetness. Now put in the oven for 2 hours or so.

I did look after this periodically, stirring occasionally, finishing with the lid on for the last 30 min or so. This is what the finished product looks like.

At this point, remove the onion and blend this all together until smooth. Voila! You have pizza sauce.

Notes:

This time I used canned whole tomatoes after being inspired by online recipes, but had previously used tomato puree. I must say that the tomato puree versions turned out better...I needed to tweak this one with a bit of salt and sugar...something is still a bit lacking here...sauce is still a WIP, but should be serviceable for pizza Friday!