Jar sauce costing 8+ dollars? What is their excuse? Gold flakes?
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It's not even good sauce. Pour a couple of big cans of crushed tomatoes over some browned ground beef/pork, add lots of garlic and Italian herbs, salt & pepper, a few oz of red wine, and let it simmer all day.
Add more or less meat, perhaps mushrooms. I like to put in chopped spinach at the beginning, to let it break up into micro pieces, and amp up the nutritional value, but it's not necessary.
It's super easy, and way better than any jarred sauce, and much cheaper.
What would I change out if I can't eat meat? I love mushrooms, is that enough on its own?
Consider meat alternatives. You can even get away with tofu. Anything goes, it’s a sauce…
I'm a big fan of textured vegetable protein (TVP). It gives a ground beef texture but is vegetarian and shelf stable. It looks expensive per pound, but it's dehydrated so you're not paying for water.
Red lentils
Oh, sure, you don't need meat at all, I sometimes just make a hearty mushroom sauce, and it's great.
Put whatever you want in it, there are no rules. Yellow/orange/red peppers are nice. I hate green peppers, and onions, but if you like them, go nuts, just don't invite me for dinner.
Some people put lots of veggies in, but they puree them first, so they dissolve better (and the kids will eat it without knowing, too, I suppose).
Experimenting is half the fun of cooking. The other half is eating it.
Without the meat should I just start with the crushed tomatoes and go from there?
I like the idea of experimenting, another commenter mentioned using different types of mushrooms together as well.
I guess I never really knew the simple part of how to start a sauce so thats why I'm trying to learn more here.
Thank you for the advice I'm saving most of these comments.
Yeah yo for sure can, though you probably don’t need to simmer for as long with everything combined if it’s just mushrooms.
I would do a variety for a bigger range of umami flavour, (et 3:1 cremini:shitake), then add a bit of msg, it’ll hit hard. MSG optional but it’ll hit hard.
I think you can also fake mallard reaction (browning meat) but I don’t know how bc I’m not vegan.
Worcestershire also could help, but idk if it’s vegan
Thanks for the idea I'll save this and try it out soon.
There is vegan Worcestershire sauce but I dont believe the original recipe is vegan.
Original recipe has fish in it (sardines iirc), so might be ok for pescetarians.
As someone that spent the better part of their youth making other people money at a grocery store, I'm bummed that I never had to build a comically oversized pyramid of bean cans that:
A: A neurotic but lovable protagonist that is just trying to get through shopping day would make the whole stack implode by taking a single can.
Or
B: A random cat in a panic would scurry up and around it as I frantically keep the pyramid from collapsing. Once the cat has fled the scene I would utter a sigh of relief just before a dog who was after the cat would crash through the stack just in time for the manager to appear and scold me for the mess.
Rao’s is the most overrated pasta sauce on the market. Overpriced for no reason.
Pre-made pasta sauce in general is pretty overrated. It's so easy to make your own pasta sauce, it's pretty much ready in the same time as it takes to heat up premade pasta sauce. Only real advantage is that you don't have to worry about seasoning
The real avantage is fewer dishes and less prep time before the actual cooking.
However I usually find that pasta water takes enough time to start boiling that I can just chop up the ingredients and start the sauce while that's happening.
With premade I've just chucked it in the hot pasta which heats it up enough AND cools down the pasta so I can eat it quicker.
Also locally made premade sauces in my country are 2-3 EUR which makes them actually cheaper than homemade because I usually put either mince or chicken in my sauces and those already cost more than the entire premade sauce lol. Of course homemade is way better but honestly sometimes I feel like I'd be saving money if I used premade.
i get the hunts pasta sauce in a huge fuckin can for like a buck. Raos is definitely for people that think a banana costing 10 dollars is cheap and affordable.
"Great Rao!"
- Pasta Sauce Afficionado, Superman
Glass jars piled like that make me feel uncomfortable
I'm reading through all the comments and you seem to be the only one who has acknowledged what this post is actually about.
Everyone else is complaining about the price of pasta sauce.
Nah, you can bowl with those Rao's jars.
7.49 for fucking pasta sauce? Wtf
That's the price if you buy five or more...
One to four jars is 8.49 each...
Campbells has to make back the money they spent buying it from private equity somehow
It’s 8.50. It’s only 7.50 of you buy 5 other them or more.
Raos is good. Pretty consistently top rated. I basically thought all jarred pasta sauces were garbage before I tried it.
…it does always hurt a little when I splurge on a jar though. Also, Costco sells two packs of the 32oz jars for just a bit more than this and it goes on sale frequently.
I think ALDI's Select pasta sauce is better for $3.60. Even at Costco price Raos is not worthed.
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raos is pricey, while the instore brand in wf, is like a cheap 2$.50cents
Damn for 18 bucks it better be orgasmic
Spoiler: It's going to be pretty much the same as the $2 sauce.
im guessing the 'truffle" makes it expensive. if its the actual fungus i can see that.
They list the actual mushroom on the label
Even Newman's Own (a non-profit) is $4. $6-$10 is normal in my area, and it's one of the least affluent areas of the country.
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I don't care how good it is, $8.50 for a jar of pasta sauce is highway robbery. It's like Bachan's BBQ sauce, sure it's good, but it ain't even close for those prices. I'd legit feel ripped off if I bought either.
The sign says "serving SoCal" so this is actually a below average price
Los Angeles grocery prices always make my eyes pop out of my head. It's just the cost of existing down there.
No. Don't spread misinformation/bullshit. Plenty of family in LA and lived there just two years ago. This is NOT a below average price. Maybe for Raos, not sure, but definitely not for pasta sauce as a whole. And no it's not the cost of existing down there unless you have absolutely no shop savvy. Food4Less, Aldi, Super King, Costco, etc will absolutely have plenty of pasta sauce of that size for under 5 bucks
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Kroger actively wants their employees to do this. (Source: worked in this hellhole for 13 years. Would choose homelessness/starvation over going back)
Its a psycholigical trick to make you think its cheaper than it is. Intended to make you think subconciously "It can't be that expensive if they treat it this poorly."
I do think they picked the wrong product for this treatment considering shrink and high price. It should be shit like dvds and other durable products.
That edit made me laugh, 'cause I totally understand. For example, I had a 'Gram' and a 'Gran' and my whole life I can never remember for sure which goes by which. Makes me feel like an asshole, lol.
I'm glad he taught you how to make your own, by the way. It's so damn tasty. Now I'm craving homemade tomato-based pasta sauce...
dude i feel like i should make the title of my autobiography "Where did all these grampas come from" or something but like, grampas were pretty cool. I looked up to them enough that my friends started calling me grampa in high school
Cento peeled tomatoes and a little basil makes better sauce for less than 7.49 just saying
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