Tomato Sauce - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 large can Italian-style tomatoes
1 medium can tomato sauce
1/2 large pepper
1/3 c. parsley, chopped finely
1/3 c. olive oil
1 tsp. basil (may be more)
2 large crushed garlic (can add more)
1 Tbsp. fennel seed, ground, or whole seed crushed with mortar and pestle
2 Tbsp. sugar

Preparation

Put tomatoes and sauce in saucepan, adding chopped pepper and finely chopped parsley.
Add crushed garlic cloves, 1/3 fennel.
Sweeten with sugar (approximately 2 tablespoons, according to taste).
Add basil.
Simmer, uncovered, for one hour. Stir frequently.
Add sugar at last of cooking time.
Taste for possibly more basil or sugar.