Pin It Now! You can not get far in Italian Cooking without a good basic Tomato Sauce or Red Gravy or in Italian... "Salsa di Pomodoro alle erbe"... I'll never forget the first time this Midwestern farm country boy first heard tomato sauce called a gravy. My good friend Mario Russomano (I think he was Italian... Just kidding, North Jersey Italian through and through) was commenting on a restaurant pasta sauce and comparing it to his mothers' gravy. Having grown up with jars of Ragu, I was…