For my pasta sauce/red sauce/Sunday gravy I start with sauteed onion and garlic in olive oil. Add crushed tomatoes (usually Hunts or Delmonte), white sugar, beef and chicken bouillon cubes, tomato paste, red wine, salt, pepper, basil, oregano, parmesan, romano, ground beef and Italian sausage (taken out of the casing).
The crushed tomatoes cook down easy enough.
Never thought to add chili seasonings to eat, I suppose that would be pretty damn good.