Has anyone ever used chopsticks to eat with?

[Louie Detroit]

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Originally Posted by higgyburners

This Is Great

[Raazor]

Originally Posted by Little Red L98.

Finally. Thnaks.

[Anjdog2003]

Originally Posted by Little Red L98.

Finally. Thnaks.

[Little Red L98.]

Originally Posted by Raazor

Originally Posted by Anjdog2003

It’s a keeper.

[snide]

Originally Posted by Giraffe

I could go on and on here but I'll end with this one. Spaghetti. My fathers family is from Sicily. His father (my grandfather) immigrated from Sicily in the early 1900s, established himself here in America then went back and brought his wife and kids back and had two more rug rats. My dad being one of them.

Anyway, my grandmother didn't speak a lick of english but she taught my mom -who is 100% Irish- how to make all these italian dishes which naturally included spaghetti.

To this day I can't eat ANYONES spaghetti but my mothers. My sister tries but I wanna puke this shit up on her kitchen floor. And forget restaurant spaghetti. I wouldn't feed that shit to the neighbor's cat. It's the one dish I'll probably never have again when my mom passes.

My wife claims to have ties to Sicily. She can open a mean jar of store bought sauce.

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by snide

My wife claims to have ties to Sicily. She can open a mean jar of store bought sauce.

I have heard stories of what she does if the jars refuse to open.

[Little Red L98.]

Originally Posted by snide

My wife claims to have ties to Sicily. She can open a mean jar of store bought sauce.

Store bought sauce and a little doctoring is not necessarily a bad thing.

[Giraffe (He/Him)]

Originally Posted by snide

My wife claims to have ties to Sicily. She can open a mean jar of store bought sauce.

[snide]

Originally Posted by aerovette

I have heard stories of what she does if the jars refuse to open.

They're all true.

[snide]

Originally Posted by Little Red L98.

Store bought sauce and a little doctoring is not necessarily a bad thing.

If you're going to doctor store bought sauce, why not just start from scratch?

[Little Red L98.]

Originally Posted by snide

If you're going to doctor store bought sauce, why not just start from scratch?

Because it’s easier and still good?

[Mick]

Originally Posted by snide

If you're going to doctor store bought sauce, why not just start from scratch?

Originally Posted by Little Red L98.

Because it’s easier and still good?

If you start with a store bought can of crushed tomatoes, it's pretty easy to make a good to very good sauce that doesn't have all the sugar of store bought sauce.

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by snide

If you're going to doctor store bought sauce, why not just start from scratch?

Why buy a can of paint and have them add color to it?

Make your own paint. Was there a Sherwin-Williams store near the Sistine Chapel?




I start here and adjust accordingly.

[Little Red L98.]

Originally Posted by Mick

If you start with a store bought can of crushed tomatoes, it's pretty easy to make a good to very good sauce that doesn't have all the sugar of store bought sauce.

I’m aware.

Not saying I do it all the time but I have. Just sayin it’s not necessarily a bad thing is all.



Here is food that is touching. Sorry if elicits psychosis.

[Mick]

Originally Posted by Little Red L98.

I’m aware.

Not saying I do it all the time but I have. Just sayin it’s not necessarily a bad thing is all.



Here is food that is touching. Sorry if elicits psychosis.

Don't get me wrong, I am not against store bought jars of sauce. In fact, when the kids were little, we never had even an hour to make our own sauce, so when having pasta, they grew up on jarred sauce from the store. I just think making it yourself is better.

To make a great sauce IMO, you have to start the day before you eat it. That takes more pre-planning that even retired me has on the average day!

[Little Red L98.]

Originally Posted by Mick

Don't get me wrong, I am not against store bought jars of sauce. In fact, when the kids were little, we never had even an hour to make our own sauce, so when having pasta, they grew up on jarred sauce from the store. I just think making it yourself is better.

To make a great sauce IMO, you have to start the day before you eat it. That takes more pre-planning that even retired me has on the average day!

I have made sauces. Pizza sauce is my favorite because a batch is good for a lot of pizzas. It takes time and TLC if you want to do it right. I start with fresh romanos which are almost as good a base as the san marzanos. But sometimes I don’t have time and don’t give a shit and just want to put something on the table. Start with jar sauce and start doctoring. There are halfway decent jar sauces that can be made decent with a little help and hungry little tummies wolf down happily.

To this day a kid will heat a jar of something, cook pasta, devour. Nothing wrong with that either i suppose. Kids.

[99 pewtercoupe]

Originally Posted by Little Red L98.

I have made sauces. Pizza sauce is my favorite because a batch is good for a lot of pizzas. It takes time and TLC if you want to do it right. I start with fresh romanos which are almost as good a base as the san marzanos. But sometimes I don’t have time and don’t give a shit and just want to put something on the table. Start with jar sauce and start doctoring. There are halfway decent jar sauces that can be made decent with a little help and hungry little tummies wolf down happily.

To this day a kid will heat a jar of something, cook pasta, devour. Nothing wrong with that either i suppose. Kids.

OK, so my cooking skills extend as far as being able to boil water and throw pasta in and then heat up some jar sauce (Ragu normally)
What suggestions would you make for doctoring up the jar sauce?

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by Little Red L98.

I have made sauces. Pizza sauce is my favorite because a batch is good for a lot of pizzas. It takes time and TLC if you want to do it right. I start with fresh romanos which are almost as good a base as the san marzanos. But sometimes I don’t have time and don’t give a shit and just want to put something on the table. Start with jar sauce and start doctoring. There are halfway decent jar sauces that can be made decent with a little help and hungry little tummies wolf down happily.

To this day a kid will heat a jar of something, cook pasta, devour. Nothing wrong with that either i suppose. Kids.

I'd like to know how to make pizza sauce. What is the fundamental difference between spaghetti sauce and pizza sauce? It would seem that it has to have more of every spice to break through the other flavors of the pizza whereas spaghetti sauce only has to compete with noodles.

[markids77]

Originally Posted by 99 pewtercoupe

OK, so my cooking skills extend as far as being able to boil water and throw pasta in and then heat up some jar sauce (Ragu normally)
What suggestions would you make for doctoring up the jar sauce?

I add a bit of garlic, black pepper, perhaps a pat of butter and let it simmer for as long as possible before use. The main thing about jarred sauce is they cannot take the time to simmer the stuff until all the flavors meld, soften and get truly happy with each other.

[markids77]

Originally Posted by aerovette

I'd like to know how to make pizza sauce. What is the fundamental difference between spaghetti sauce and pizza sauce? It would seem that it has to have more of every spice to break through the other flavors of the pizza whereas spaghetti sauce only has to compete with noodles.

A lot of pizza sauce is prepared entirely without cooking. The ingredients are assembled, blended and the cooking happens in the oven at the time of making.
Spaghetti sauces require low and slow simmers to break down the acidic nature of raw tomatoes and build the complex flavors associated with great gravies.