Spaghetti/Pasta Add-Ins

[MIGrandma]

When you cook spaghetti or pasta with sauce, do you add anything else?

Today I made some penne pasta with spaghetti sauce, and decided to cook up some zucchini (in olive oil) to add to it. Sometimes I'll add mushrooms, or sliced green/black olives too.

 

[Liberty Belle]

I add both zucchini and green olives, too, sometimes. Nothing else, usually, except for garlic and tomatoes, if I'm using jarred sauce.

 

[mlenz]

mushrooms,green and/or red peppers, onion sometimes carrots and parm chz
I try to sneak in as many veggies as I can.

 

[FormrCastMbr]

If we are having pasta with meatballs and sausage, then nothing else besides the things I add to my sauce, ie, country pork ribs and salt pork.

The only other ways I really serve sauce is my son's favorite: sausage and peas served with medium size pasta shells (called sausage, shells and peas). I guess its one of my favorites too...and then sometimes I will do sausage, peppers and onions to serve it over pasta.

 

[KJ Luvs Pluto]

Always. Like you I like to add zuch., mushrooms, olives, eggplant when I have it in my garden. I have to try not to get too carried away or there's more "stuff" than sauce .

 

[DeniseinNS]

If it's a white cream sauce I will add carrot, brocolli and mushroom

 

[snapppyd]

We tried adding spinach to marinara sauce recently and loved it.

 

[zippitydoo]

I like to add shrimp and mushrooms

 

[My sister's princess]

I love to add mushrooms when I use the jar sauce!

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

My homemade sauce has mushrooms, red peppers, onions (course garlic) and don't but a small cup of applesauce. My grandma always added it and you don't taste it but it cuts the acid (so she says, I don't know, I have just always done it.) I also do like zuchinni when we have it. Yumm.

Now I know the applesauce sounds weird but I have a friend who puts whole hard boiled eggs in hers, in place of meatballs. That seems weird to me (then again I am not a big egg person) but like my sauce I guess don't knock it till you try it.

I like lots of veggies so the mor the better IMO.

White sauce we like mushrooms, broccolo, peas, well, actually just about anything in white sauce.

 

[ndelaware]

Onion, green pepper, 1/2 a head of garlic, fresh basil, and ground beef.

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

I like to add spinach, squash, zucchini and some kind of ground meat... pork, turkey or beef, usually depending on what's on sale at the store.

Also, I usually use penne, just personal preference.

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

a small cup of applesauce. My grandma always added it and you don't taste it but it cuts the acid (so she says, I don't know, I have just always done it.) I also do like zuchinni when we have it. Yumm.

I don't know enough about acid or base content of apple sauce but I would imagine that it leaves a very slight sweet taste that's good.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

With red sauce, sometimes we add ground beef or turkey, or sausage.

If we use olive oil instead (with garlic and spices) we usually add broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots.

 

[Sparx]

I don't eat a lot of red sauce on pasta, I prefer cheese sauces like parmesean or alfredo but I do like to put broccoli in almost everything!

 

[mill4023]

For marinara sauce, we always add meat!
Ground beef, meatballs, or italian sausage usually.
We sometimes add mushrooms too, but that's about it.

For a cream sauce, we like to add seafood. Bay scallops, shrimp, or salmon. I love taking salmon fillets, cooking them in a pan with some olive oil, breaking them up into small pieces, and adding it to an alfredo sauce.