SO: Spaghetti Sauce Poll

[AustinTink]

I mix it in and add pasta water because that's what all the cooking shows say to do. Growing up, my mom always served it on top.

 

[loves to dive]

Mama always put a big ole bowl of pasta on the table and a big ole bowl of sauce and we put how much we wanted on ours. When I was a kid I just ate pasta and butter because Mama put mushrooms in the sauce and I didn't like mushrooms (love them now). Frankly, we drain the pasta, put it back in the pot and leave both the pot of pasta and the pot of sauce on the stove and you can serve yourself in our house.

 

[low-key]

Either is fine, I also like white spaghetti once in a while , just a little butter, oil and salt and pepper, maybe have a sliced up tomato on the side

 

[powellrj]

I have a son and grandchild who like the spaghetti plain with no sauce so I always serve it on top.

 

[OrangeBirdGirl]

Mix the pasta with the GRAVY. Gravy in reference to red. But always mix in sauces as well.

 

[ols386]

Mixed together and with butter.

Love leftover spaghetti the next day.

 

[Minnesota!]

When I make.my monthly massive batch of sauce, I serve it on top of the noodles. Then, I mix the remaining and sauce with the leftover noodles for the following meals, so either works!

 

[mamamary]

Either. I make it both ways.

 

[Mirielle]

A timely thread. I served spaghetti last night for 11 people. Sauce was served on top and it was scarfed up...plates all clean.

 

[msjprincess]

I mix in some sauce and pasta water to stop it from sticking. Then people can add more sauce if they choose.

 

[morgan98]

My mother was born in Italy and my husband and I travel there very frequently. It is always served mixed in in Italy and at our house.

We like our pasta more lightly coated in sauce. One of the biggest differences between eating pasta in Italy and in America is the amount of sauce. In Italy the sauce is very flavorful, but there is substantially less of it. One of the reasons I really almost never eat pasta in a restaurant here because of that.

 

[luvsJack]

I like it mixed in mostly because it’s easier when everyone is eating at different times.

Usually though there is extra sauce to add on top.

I must be the only one that doesn’t like leftover spaghetti.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Depends on what type of service I'm doing.
At home more often than not I serve the "gravy" in a separate dish and the pasta on a heated plate.
At the campsite where every dish needs to be accounted for I serve some of the sauce a top the pasta and leave the rest in the pot so people can take more as they like.

 

[tvguy]

Of course, some probably grew up with Chef Boyrdee and had no option but to have the sauce mixed in.

 

[tasha99]

I mix in some sauce and pasta water, then add more on top if wanted. So both . . .

 

[RedAngie]

Of course, some probably grew up with Chef Boyrdee and had no option but to have the sauce mixed in.

I preferred Franco-American canned pasta as a kid, especially Spaghetti-Os. Eventually the brand was eliminated and re-named for the parent company Campbells.

It was like 75% sauce.

 

[tvguy]

I preferred Franco-American canned pasta as a kid, especially Spaghetti-Os. Eventually the brand was eliminated and re-named for the parent company Campbells.

It was like 75% sauce.

I have to admit I loved the Franco American canned Macaroni and Cheese.

 

[disneychrista]

I must be the only one that doesn’t like leftover spaghetti.

I don't in general like leftovers of anything, including spaghetti.

 

[disneychrista]

I have to admit I loved the Franco American canned Macaroni and Cheese.

Me too. I miss it.

 

[Wishing on a star]

ALWAYS on top....
well drained spaghetti. (I am all American, and just for me, pasta 'soup' is not 'spaghetti and meatballs'.
Topped with a great marinara and home-made meatballs.
A dollop of creamy alfredo.
parmesan cheese.
The New York boxed garlic bread, with extra garlic sprinkled on, toasted quickly under a preheated hot broiler.
DELISH!!!!!