I had intended to use Cento canned Italian tomatoes to make Marcella Hazan's Tomato Sauce With Onion & Butter, but Whole Foods only had Isola canned Italian tomatoes and bonus, they were on sale. I thought about melting the butter first and sauteeing the onion and garlic and then adding the tomatoes but I suspected that by adding it all at once to the pot, the butter melting would somehow soften the acid of the tomatoes and also the bite of the garlic. I was right. The result was a deeply flavorful, yet mellow red sauce.

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