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What's a food you love, that isn't worth making from scratch? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by ericbomb@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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For me, crepes ain't worth the stress to make fresh. Just buy a little pack from store and focus on filling is my go to.

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[-] SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Italian scratching his head here. I can think of only one particular type of ragu that takes a few hours to make properly and is obviously not what's being discussed here due to jars, doctoring sweating and general confusion.

Mate putting together a tomato sauce from scratch for some spaghetti shouldn't take longer than the time it takes to the water to boil plus the 9 or so minutes that it takes to cook the pasta you are overthinking it

[-] june@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Pretty sure they’re talking about the brand Ragu, which is some of the cheapest jarred spaghetti sauce you can get in the US.

That said, toss me one of those easy tasty sauce recipes?

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I'm talking about the brand ragu.

Also, it seems that my family recipe is more involved than the norm lol

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

My sauces take a few hours to make, but they’re insanely good.

I made ragu for the first time about a year ago, and it was outstanding. I gotta make some more of that.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I'm American, and do use jarred sauce if I have it, but more often what I have is tomato paste, a half bottle of wine hanging out in the refrigerator and some garlic or olive oil and butter. Anchovies. Usually have canned peeled tomatoes too, but those do have to cook awhile to taste good.

I guess I don't set out to replicate jarred sauce, generally speaking, but can quickly dress pasta for supper with something good.

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