italian tomato sauce

[jackal]

an old Italian friend of mine used to make this fantatsic pasta sauce

it was a tomato type sauce, spicy, no meat, quite liquid/runny .. but the big thing about it was it was quite sweet and had caramelised something or other in it (maybe onions). Anyone have any ideas what it might be ? IIRC it took a while to make.. she couldn't just knock it up but it had to cook for some time and she used to make lots of it in one go. She wasn't a great cook or anything but came from a little village near amalfi so my guess it was a standard recipe ?

[jackal]

thanks !

i will try this

doesnt sound too dissimilar

i think hers used garlic and also vodka !