first off let me say that im mostly italian. growin up one of our neighbors were an iraqi family, their kid was my age and we used to play... they invited me over for dinner one night.... pasta.... and they cooked it all up and shit, just plain pasta, and then they realized they didnt have any tomato sauce... so they brought out the bottle of ketchup, no fucking lie, and dumped that shit on the pasta. i guess they thought anything is better than somethin. but we were poor as shit too and never ate pasta with sauce, just put some butter and kraft cheese on that shit... now that im older and made it on my own i do my own thing with sauces, but my favorite one is this shit, lebanese style tomato sauce:
brown 1lb beef, turkey, or if you can afford it, lamb (trust me, its BOMB in this sauce)
add 1 jar regular marina sauce, smash a buncha garlic in there (as much as you like)
add 1 tbs cinamon and 2 tbs oregano
if you got feta cheese, use that, otherwise just put on whatever cheese you got. if you got lamb and you got feta you fuckin set for one BOMB ass dinner.
and to them non-italians that dont be knowing- DONT RINSE THE PASTA when youre draining it! thats what makes the sauce not stick too the pasta, if you dont rinse it then the sauce will get absorbed into the pasta just right. man that was a lot of instructions, the end.