The tomato may just be my favorite single ingredient. It forms the base of some of my favorite dishes, from salsa and indian curries to maybe it's proudest form - Italian red sauces. About a year ago I developed an obsession with creating the perfect red sauce that culminated in creating batches nearly 3 times a week until I finally felt that I couldn't improve upon it any further. Although better sauces are very much possible if you possess an abundance of fresh seasonal ingredients, money to blow, and time to kill, this sauce is tuned to be affordable, quick, and reproducible any time of year. This is an always satisfying go-to sauce.
