I doubled the recipe and got 3 jars like this
I usually post recipes on my Lazy Woman blog. Most are "lazy" meaning less stress with a delicious result. I have actually posted about this recipe on that blog because it's such an extraordinary and perfect recipe. But it's not LAZY actually. In fact, as I made this the other night I realized that it's really a superhero recipe. Scott Conant is a superhero chef. This is his recipe (see story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7BeGj38J4k). And I felt like a superhero when I was making it.
If you LOVE cooking this is an incredibly fun adventure. You get to cut, prep, seed with your hands, score, blanch, sautee, simmer, boil, mash, strain, drizzle, and even give and ice bath! I always feel like I'm in a chemistry lab when I make this pasta. It is wondrous fun!
I decided to make the sauce because I'm making lasagna (as well as this sauce over pasta) for a dinner party tomorrow and decided I really wanted to try this sauce in a lasagna. I will add another post with that recipe and photos later.
You get to sautee garlic and basil in olive oil until it's just the right level of infused:
Learn how to do this step-by-step: http://newyork.seriouseats.com/2009/10/making-scarpetta-tomato-basil-spaghetti-scott-conant-scarpetta-meatpacking-district-nyce.html
Straining the extra left over tomato debris...
I'm ashamed to say that the Roma tomatoes at my normally spectacularly produce-d local store were not great, but I bought them anyway due to time constraints, and really sort of as an experiment. This sauce is fantastic -- different than if tomatoes were robust, but I could literally drink this sauce it's so good, even with the less than stellar tomatoes. BUT I did have to use my immersion blender -- which was super fun:
My favorite part: drizzling the magical infused olive oil into the cooked tomatoes:
