Pasta Tomato & Pepper Sauce (with Chorizo sausages)....Never buy processed sauce again

This tomato & pepper sauce I make at least twice a month. You can make it tomato only if you do not want or don't have peppers. We love it with any type of sausages, tonight it will be chorizo, both for their taste and colour. But really use any links type sausage you can get. If you can, buy from your butcher or deli to be confident of what goes in them. In this case usually the cheaper they are, the less quality meat is in them and the sausages are bulked out with all sorts of stuff you don't really want to know about.
These quantities can be easily doubled or more to freeze. But, it is so easy that I tend to make it fresh each time.
You can use this sauce for many other recipes, it is a great standby.

Ingredients for 2:

• 150-200g any dried pasta you have in the cupboard
• 6 link sausages
• 1 small onion
• 1 thumbnail fresh ginger (optional but do not use powdered ginger in this recipe).
• 1 pepper either red or yellow (you could use one out of a jar)
• 12-16 cherry tomatoes or 4 normal salad size ( if you do not have fresh then use either 1 carton passata or 1 tin chopped tomatoes
• tbs fresh herbs basil/sage/oregano or tsp dried oregano (optional)
• 1 fresh chilli or hot chilli sauce to taste (optional). I use Lingham's ginger, garlic hot chilli sauce, it kicks.
• parmesan cheese
• crusty bread

Finely chop the onion, ginger (if using) and pepper and put in a non stick pan with oil (olive preferred) and simmer for 5 minutes.

Chop the fresh tomatoes and add to the pot, no need to skin or seed the tomatoes.

Chop & de-seed the fresh chilli, unless you like it hot, and add to the mixture. 

Put a lid on simmer gently, stir occasionally for 20 minutes.

Add the herbs and chilli sauce if using, give a stir to mix in and simmer for another 10 minutes. We like it rustic & chunky but if you want it smoother you blend to your taste.

Cook the sausages, if grilling 18 minutes turning every 6 minutes, if on hob 30 minutes cooked on a lower frame turning regularly.

Cook the pasta in a big pot boiling water for the cooking time on packet, normally around 10 minutes.

Drain the pasta, add a tbs of the liquid to the sauce. Put pasta back into pot, add some olive oil & seasoning. Mix in well and put pasta in your pre-heated bowls. Put sauce on top and arrange the sausages.

Sprinkle with parmesan (try freshly grated if you can as the processed tubs are just not as nice) and also have some bread to mop up the juices.

Simple just enjoy.