Category ponderings

The entire meal - Simple tomato soup

The individual components - Simple tomato sauce.

The actual goal here is the entire meal in a recipe. Becuase the point is that sequencing and listing and remembering is difficult, and having to pull different recipes is kind of defeating the point.
Particularly if you have to combine the lists on your own.

But. The minimalist tomato sauce is a base, if you will, from which you can make the simple tomato soup quickly. Or you stir it into your mince and have a bolognese. Or you just toss it on top of your pasta. And making the recipe for a portion of tomato sauce in every recipe seems somewhat ridiculous, mostly because the sauce recipe is 10 portions.

So both.
Priority to meals.

Side variations - if you don't have the sauce, do this instead, maybe?
In pasta with tomato salsa you can use this salsa[link] or do this [variation on recipe]? Or possibly the other way around, using pre-cooked ingredients being the variation on the recipe. Could work. Maybe.