What is your favorite (store bought) pasta sauce?

by Brock Middlebrook 2015-08-11, 12:28

I like them a little sugary, but I'm open to all suggestions. I can never find any I really like.

by **DWags** 2015-08-11, 12:30

I'm a sauce snob and haven't tasted one in over 30 years from a store. Greatest thing my wife learned from my mom and dad was my grandmothers sauce recipe.

by **Rocinante** 2015-08-11, 12:43

When I eat pasta, I miss my ex wife.

by Brock Middlebrook 2015-08-11, 12:47

DWags wrote:I'm a sauce snob and haven't tasted one in over 30 years from a store. Greatest thing my wife learned from my mom and dad was my grandmothers sauce recipe.

Well, unless you invite me over, that doesn't help me.

My wife learned how to open a can of Ragu from her mother, and that shit sucks.

by **Floyd Robertson** 2015-08-11, 13:13

Rocinante wrote:When I eat pasta, I miss my ex wife.

One of my ex-wife's strong points was knowing her way around the kitchen. She made everything from scratch and here sauce was really good. Now I'm stuck with the likes of Classico. I doctor the shit out of that, but I still know that it came from a jar.

by **DWags** 2015-08-11, 13:19

Floyd Robertson wrote:
Rocinante wrote:When I eat pasta, I miss my ex wife.

One of my ex-wife's strong points was knowing her way around the kitchen. She made everything from scratch and here sauce was really good. Now I'm stuck with the likes of Classico. I doctor the shit out of that, but I still know that it came from a jar.

If you guys aren't afraid to cook over a stove and bake, when my wife comes home I'll get her recipe. Just take an hour and a half or so, make a bunch, use it fresh and freeze the rest. I bet my wife makes a batch once every three months or so. Freeze the rest and it's good to go on thaw.
Seriously for family birthdays we pick our restaurant to go to, both my daughters have requested "grandmas spaghetti" instead more than once.

by **Floyd Robertson** 2015-08-11, 13:25

DWags wrote:
Floyd Robertson wrote:

One of my ex-wife's strong points was knowing her way around the kitchen. She made everything from scratch and here sauce was really good. Now I'm stuck with the likes of Classico. I doctor the shit out of that, but I still know that it came from a jar.

If you guys aren't afraid to cook over a stove and bake, when my wife comes home I'll get her recipe. Just take an hour and a half or so, make a bunch, use it fresh and freeze the rest. I bet my wife makes a batch once every three months or so. Freeze the rest and it's good to go on thaw.
Seriously for family birthdays we pick our restaurant to go to, both my daughters have requested "grandmas spaghetti" instead more than once.

I'm game, but it might be better if you just send your wife over to my place one afternoon.

by **Rocinante** 2015-08-11, 13:28

Floyd Robertson wrote:
DWags wrote:

If you guys aren't afraid to cook over a stove and bake, when my wife comes home I'll get her recipe. Just take an hour and a half or so, make a bunch, use it fresh and freeze the rest. I bet my wife makes a batch once every three months or so. Freeze the rest and it's good to go on thaw.
Seriously for family birthdays we pick our restaurant to go to, both my daughters have requested "grandmas spaghetti" instead more than once.

I'm game, but it might be better if you just send your wife over to my place one afternoon.

This.

by **y2kMgrad** 2015-08-11, 13:33

Prego Mushroom

by **By-Tor** 2015-08-11, 13:37

Pomodoro or bolognese are some of the easiest recipes in a kitchen to master. I could fuck up some bolognese spaghetti, fresh bread and a salad on a Sunday afternoon.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/simple-bolognese-recipe2.html

To change it up I omit the basil and go with a couple of bay leaves, dash of cloves and cinnamon for a different flavor profile. It's fuckin good.

by **DWags** 2015-08-11, 13:54

Some restaurants sell their sauces.

Just don't buy sttore stuff

by **DWags** 2015-08-11, 13:57

Rocinante wrote:When I eat pasta, I miss my ex wife.

So, was the opposite true?

by **tGreenWay** 2015-08-11, 13:59

The only brand of sauce in a jar I can hold down is Barillo, and even that I have to play around with. All the others are inedible, at least to me. I haven't found any truly great recipes, so I've played around with some I've found online.
It sucks coming from a family of terrible cooks. No secret recipes handed down through the generations, no learning from experience in the kitchen when I was a kid. My dad as probably the best cook and his secret ingredient was black pepper. My mom's secret was to thoroughly overcook everything.

by HT 2015-08-11, 14:01

Anything you can get from a store. Those companies got to the point of mass-producing their sauce for a reason, and capitalism always makes sure the best survive.

by **Giant Moose** 2015-08-11, 14:03

HT wrote:Anything you can get from a store. Those companies got to the point of mass-producing their sauce for a reason, and capitalism always makes sure the best survive.

I don't know about that. I can't imagine Walmart pasta sauce tasting any good.

What is your favorite (store bought) pasta sauce? TMWTMHh

by **tGreenWay** 2015-08-11, 14:04

Giant Moose wrote:
HT wrote:Anything you can get from a store. Those companies got to the point of mass-producing their sauce for a reason, and capitalism always makes sure the best survive.
I don't know about that. I can't imagine Walmart pasta sauce tasting any good.

That looks like something MSU Beefman would eat.

by **Rocinante** 2015-08-11, 14:05

DWags wrote:
Rocinante wrote:When I eat pasta, I miss my ex wife.

So, was the opposite true?

No.

by Guest 2015-08-11, 15:34

My favorite of all the commercial sauces is Kroger store brand. I prefer it over any of the name brand sauces I've ever tried. The worst is that canned Hunt's shit.....

by **Travis of the Cosmos** 2015-08-11, 15:39

tGreenWay wrote:The only brand of sauce in a jar I can hold down is Barillo, and even that I have to play around with. All the others are inedible, at least to me. I haven't found any truly great recipes, so I've played around with some I've found online.
It sucks coming from a family of terrible cooks. No secret recipes handed down through the generations, no learning from experience in the kitchen when I was a kid. My dad as probably the best cook and his secret ingredient was black pepper. My mom's secret was to thoroughly overcook everything.

Oh look at me I only eat barillo I'm such a fancy mother fucker and the other sauces are beneath me.

Just kidding. Pops was born in Italy. Store bought sauce is disgusting and inedible to use.

by **The_Dude** 2015-08-11, 15:45

Mario Batali's brand of pasta sauce.

by **Travis of the Cosmos** 2015-08-11, 15:53

The_Dude wrote:Mario Batali's brand of pasta sauce.

What is your favorite (store bought) pasta sauce? Mario-balotelli-3_BGS

by **InTenSity** 2015-08-11, 15:57

Maybe I've just never really had a good sauce, but pasta is at the bottom of things I enjoy eating.

by **The_Dude** 2015-08-11, 15:59

InTenSity wrote:Maybe I've just never really had a good sauce, but pasta is at the bottom of things I enjoy eating.

Fresh from scratch pasta that is labor intensive is great.

by **Vlad** 2015-08-11, 16:09

I highly recommend Mezzetta! If you like the sauce to be a bit spicy, try their arrabiata or the spicy marinara. The porcini mushroom is really good too.

by **tGreenWay** 2015-08-11, 16:32

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:
tGreenWay wrote:The only brand of sauce in a jar I can hold down is Barillo, and even that I have to play around with. All the others are inedible, at least to me. I haven't found any truly great recipes, so I've played around with some I've found online.
It sucks coming from a family of terrible cooks. No secret recipes handed down through the generations, no learning from experience in the kitchen when I was a kid. My dad as probably the best cook and his secret ingredient was black pepper. My mom's secret was to thoroughly overcook everything.
Oh look at me I only eat barillo I'm such a fancy mother fucker and the other sauces are beneath me.

Just kidding. Pops was born in Italy. Store bought sauce is disgusting and inedible to use.

I hope you were bowed down while you were typing that. Meanwhile, I married an Italian woman. Her standards are very high, with the exception of the guy she married. I'm the outlier.

by **I.B. Fine** 2015-08-11, 16:43

By-Tor wrote:Pomodoro or bolognese are some of the easiest recipes in a kitchen to master. I could fuck up some bolognese spaghetti, fresh bread and a salad on a Sunday afternoon.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/simple-bolognese-recipe2.html

To change it up I omit the basil and go with a couple of bay leaves, dash of cloves and cinnamon for a different flavor profile. It's fuckin good.

Forget the ground beef, use short ribs. Thank me later.

by **By-Tor** 2015-08-11, 19:38

You speak my language, friend. Braised short ribs over pasta is one of my absolute faves.

by Triple Sparty 2015-08-11, 21:04

Can you guys explain the short run thing?

I usually get a four cheese. Brown garlic peppers and onions. Brown meat. Add sauce. Simmer. Add tommy toe paste to thicken. Add brown sugar to sweeten.

by **I.B. Fine** 2015-08-11, 22:30

No puedo hacerlo

by **The Pantry** 2015-08-11, 22:48

Triple Sparty wrote:Can you guys explain the short run thing?

I usually get a four cheese. Brown garlic peppers and onions. Brown meat. Add sauce. Simmer. Add tommy toe paste to thicken. Add brown sugar to sweeten.

That's absolutely disgusting. You are yet another fool that I've heard of adding sugar to red sauce, but the first to use brown sugar.

by Triple Sparty 2015-08-11, 22:56

My spaghetti sauce once got two thumbs up from DirecTV installer who had to spend a few hours getting our house set up. He can assure you he had much more refined taste than some turd who thinks the UP is Up North.

by Triple Sparty 2015-08-11, 22:58

*I can assure you, darn it.

by **The Pantry** 2015-08-11, 23:04

I learned red sauce from my off-the-boat Italian in-laws that owned a few restaurants in the Detroit area. Sugar is not in the mix, ever. The only sweetness needed comes from sweating onions in olive oil.

by Triple Sparty 2015-08-11, 23:22

Next you'll tell me my sushi shouldn't have cream cheese or eel sauce.

by **CORNER BLITZ** 2015-08-11, 23:46

Prego 4 cheese

Suck it

by **Cym Jim** 2015-08-12, 01:46

Savages. It takes less time to knock up a fresh sauce than it takes the pasta to cook. Turn off Sportscenter and cook some fucking garlic.

by **Rocinante** 2015-08-12, 02:05

Cym Jim wrote:Savages. It takes less time to knock up a fresh sauce than it takes the pasta to cook. Turn off Sportscenter and cook some fucking garlic.

You know the thing the English are known for? Their cuisine.

by **Cym Jim** 2015-08-12, 02:52

Rocinante wrote:You know the thing the English are known for? Their cuisine.

Indeed. The Brits have ruled the world in contemporary food for at least the last 10-15 years. Ever noticed that all decent chefs on your TV at English? Odd huh. There were some dark times in the 70s and 80s I will concede, and the odd Yank still complains of struggles to find decent pizza in the touristy areas of London, but let's contemporize. If you're looking for those leading the movement of fresh local food, cooked properly, prepared creatively, then get your sorry jar-sauce eating ass across the pond What is your favorite (store bought) pasta sauce? 969504605

What is your favorite (store bought) pasta sauce? 969504605

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by **DWags** 2015-08-12, 03:17

Rocinante wrote:
Cym Jim wrote:Savages. It takes less time to knock up a fresh sauce than it takes the pasta to cook. Turn off Sportscenter and cook some fucking garlic.

You know the thing the English are known for? Their cuisine.

I thought it was acting.

by Brock Middlebrook 2015-08-12, 09:36

DWags wrote:
Rocinante wrote:

You know the thing the English are known for? Their cuisine.

I thought it was acting.

I thought it was drooling and spitting through their teeth whilst talking

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