my go to red sauce for two starts with the oil: a half cup, a quarter cup, and an eighth cup, to extract garlic, basil, and pepper, to fry the tomatoes, and to finish with butter and cheese, respectively

the half with a head of garlic, large pinches of red pepper flakes, and soon (missing), four full stalks of basil in a small sauce pan

the quarter, w/pepper flakes, for the tomatoes

the eighth to finish, missing: eight chiffonaded basil leaves, salt to taste