Big multi use pasta sauce:
4 or 5 onions, a couple of carrots, 3 or 4 sticks of celery, all chopped small and put on a low heat with a dash of soy sauce and mixed herbs.
While that's softening for 10 or 15 minutes, dice 3 peppers, grate 3 carrots crush several garlic cloves and add those to the mix and low heat for another 10 mins or so.
Add two tins chopped tomatoes, 1 or 2 cartons of passata, tin of chick peas, load more herbs, worcestershire sauce, red wine if any knocking around, chilli powder or chopped chillis, plus anything else that takes your fancy.
Slow heat for another 10 or 15 mins and you're done.
Other possible additions:
Finely chopped mushrooms
Fried green beans
Fried bits of bacon and/or sausage
In fact whatever you like
