slo’s THURSDAY 2/12 poll - Spaghetti Sauce

[Kitty 34]

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Thank you for clarifying that

Not everyone gives up meat for Lent and not everyone does Lent.
The poll is about Spaghetti Sauce in general regardless when you are enjoying it

Just cuz of this poll. Slo.....I'm making spaghetti this Sunday.

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

We buy Prego and Rinaldi's in this house. I buy all varieties. Sometimes we eat spaghetti meatless but that's only if I'm out of frozen meatballs/ sausage slices. My personal favorite sauce is a homemade sauce served at a local church festival for their spaghetti dinner. So, so good!! I've never made sauce and probably never will.
My grandson has figured out his personal favorite: Prego Four Cheese so that's a regular buy.

 

[tvguy]

We buy Prego and Rinaldi's in this house. I buy all varieties. Sometimes we eat spaghetti meatless but that's only if I'm out of frozen meatballs/ sausage slices. My personal favorite sauce is a homemade sauce served at a local church festival for their spaghetti dinner. So, so good!! I've never made sauce and probably never will.
My grandson has figured out his personal favorite: Prego Four Cheese so that's a regular buy.

What brand of frozen meatballs do you use? We were HUGE Schwans customers before they went out of business and their frozen meatballs were the best. I have yet to find a good frozen meatball. They all seem to be filled with filler or mixed with turkey.

 

[barkley]

i'll just toss this out there on the 'meatless' aspect-

for many years my kids attended a private school that was strictly vegetarian so I had to become versed at making potluck and large lunches (parents had to provide lunch for the entire class once every couple of months) absent any meat products. that said-2 of the most popular dishes I made were 'meaty-less pasta' and 'meatless carbonara'. for the 'meaty-less' I substituted my regular ground beef and sausage with 'crumbles' which I seasoned the same as I would have the meat and was pleased to find it had a very similar taste/texture in the sauce, for the 'carbonara' I substituted Bacos (they are vegetarian and give that hint of a bacon flavor not such that I would opt for it on a regular basis but if I were craving carbonara and had to go meatless it suffices).

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

What brand of frozen meatballs do you use? We were HUGE Schwans customers before they went out of business and their frozen meatballs were the best. I have yet to find a good frozen meatball. They all seem to be filled with filler or mixed with turkey.

I liked NO NAME Brand and bought them for years. IDK what happened, but I can't find their meatballs anywhere. I buy randomly now and try for the "better brands". My latest buy is Rosina. The #1/2 ingredients listed are Beef and Pork, .Chicken

 

[princesscinderella]

I am sensitive to nightshades (tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplant) so I limit how much I eat so I don’t do much red sauce other than if we make a pizza. My go to sauces are pesto, Alfredo and I found a spicy carmelized onion cream sauce that is amazing. Pesto is my favorite, I usually buy a jar as a base but add extra pine nuts, fresh basil and garlic to really amp up the flavor with lots of Parmesan to put on top. The Trader Joe’s pesto is my favorite in the jar. Raos is the red sauce I will buy if we need it for pizza.

 

[Genie+]

We use jar sauce maybe 25% of the time, but rarely use it alone without adding other stuff to it. They are a good short cut.

Often I’ll sauté up onion, maybe garlic too, add a can of Tuttorossa 28oz tomato sauce or crushed tomatoes (that I try to stock up during CanCan sales for a buck or so), maybe add white or red wine, or cream, dried oregano or italian blend, fresh parsley. In the time it takes to boil water and cook the pasta, I can more than double the jar of sauce and give it a shot in the arm.

Just cuz of this poll. Slo.....I'm making spaghetti this Sunday.

I went and made aglia oglia about 3 minutes after answering the poll lol. Gave me a hankerin’!

My son was a lucky beneficiary walking in just as I completed.

 

[LoveDaisy]

I make and can my own sauce. I make it pomodoro style. I can tomatoes from my garden then convert the homemade canned tomatoes into sauce. I make 12 jars of sauce per batch and can that.

I also make pesto sauce from my garden that I freeze and homemade Alfredo if we do that, although I usually make that with tortellini.

As someone’s whose diet is 90% pescatarian lent is my favorite time of the year.

 

[rlk]

I prefer marinara. I recently switched from Rao's to Michael's of Brooklyn.

 

[tvguy]

i'll just toss this out there on the 'meatless' aspect-

for many years my kids attended a private school that was strictly vegetarian so I had to become versed at making potluck and large lunches (parents had to provide lunch for the entire class once every couple of months) absent any meat products. that said-2 of the most popular dishes I made were 'meaty-less pasta' and 'meatless carbonara'. for the 'meaty-less' I substituted my regular ground beef and sausage with 'crumbles' which I seasoned the same as I would have the meat and was pleased to find it had a very similar taste/texture in the sauce, for the 'carbonara' I substituted Bacos (they are vegetarian and give that hint of a bacon flavor not such that I would opt for it on a regular basis but if I were craving carbonara and had to go meatless it suffices).

I went to a SDA High school for one year. No meat, although meat wasn't banned, as long as it wasn't pork which is banned by the religion, not the school. And no caffeine or alcohol.
Not sure my mom paid much attention as she often packed me a ham sandwich with a Cola.
Was funny seeing pictures from what would have been my 50th reunion there. Bottles of wine everywhere, coffee and little smokey pork sausages!! So much for temperance.

 

[design_mom]

I love spaghetti... and it's easy, so I make it a lot. Meat/meatless, homemade sauce/jarred sauce. I do it all... but I really only like the tomato-based sauces. Bolognese is probably my favorite, but I like them all. When I buy jarred sauce, our local grocery store has a pretty good store-brand organic roasted garlic sauce that I like... and it's not too expensive. (I bought Rao's once and it was... fine.. but I didn't think it was worth the price.) I will acknowledge, though, that I think my family is 0% italian, so I have no idea how "authentic" any of my recipes are.

 

[cleverclovers]

Home made only. Tomato sauce, tomato paste, dried onion flakes, Italian seasoning, and either garlic salt or powder. Let simmer.

 

[ronandannette]

Amazon carries some Newman’s Own sauces, check it out! (Not cheap, though!)

Only a few salad dressings and some dog treats on Amazon Canada - no spaghetti sauce.

 

[hardcorestitch]

Only a few salad dressings and some dog treats on Amazon Canada - no spaghetti sauce.

Ewww… weird combo!

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

4 cheese is great, but will do marinara too

 

[ronandannette]

Ewww… weird combo!

Newman’s Own has quite a diverse range of products.

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

I like tomato based vegetarian sauces (marinara, pomodoro, arribatta, vodka), or the olive oil & garlic, or pesto, or a mushroom sauce, but alfredo sauce is right out. The smell alone can turn my stomach. When we're having a special meal, one of my kids actually makes the sauce, but often we just use store-bought.

We're actually in the 3rd round of a jarred sauce taste-off. Prego, Classico, Berrtolli, Full Circle, Newman's, Rao's are in this round, some of them have 2 entries. The store shoppers must think I'm crazy with all the different varieties I put in my cart. It's a variety of marinara, tomato-basil, tomato-onion-garlic, but most of them are tomato-basil. We started with 16 and are at 8.

 

[Deb]

Only a few salad dressings and some dog treats on Amazon Canada - no spaghetti sauce.

must be a Canada thing. I just checked Harris Teeter's website since that's my local store and they carry Newman's own pasta sauces. Looks like Publix does as well

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Only a few salad dressings and some dog treats on Amazon Canada - no spaghetti sauce.

Can you write to the Newman’s Own company directly?

 

[disneychrista]

I only buy Classico Four Cheese Marinara and Alfredo. But I will also make spaghetti with parmesan-garlic butter sauce. It sounds fancy but is really just butter noodles with garlic and parmesan cheese.