/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10642348
*blocks your path*

>>10642357
I hope you die screaming in a grease fire you fucking cretin

Anything with onions and peppers, I get the cheapest one and add extra spices to it

I make my own because all the ingredients cost pennies.

I haven't tried too many but Prego is decent enough to doctor up. I usually fry up a little italian sausage or ground beef in a pan, then set it aside. A little more oil, then toss in garlic, a couple of anchovies, and capers in some olive oil, then the jarred sauce and stir in the meat.

Only in a pinch though, as a quick meal for my girl and I. If I'm entertaining guests or have time to prep up a big batch on the weekend, I go homemade all the way.

>>10642390
You and your “girl” sound pretty rotund.

>>10642372
Fuck off, shill.

>>10642384
I make my own too now. I must have tried every sauce out there and the only one I even slightly liked was the classico spicy red pepper one. But I just got so sick of being disappointed that I ended up experimenting with different recipes for marinara for a few weeks until I got the taste I was searching for.
One thing led to another, and now I hardly buy anything that's pre-made from a grocery store anymore. It's all cheaper and tastes better when you can do it yourself.

>>10642348
make it
takes 30 minutes of prep, 6 hours in a slow cooker once a month

I used to just get Barilla. Now when I'm not making my own sauce I'll go for Rao's. It's about twice the price of other sauces but tastes so much better.

>>10642348
>All Natural Ingredients: Crushed Tomatoes, Water, Soybean Oil, Sugar, Salt, Onions (Dried), Basil, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Garlic (Dried), Spice, Natural Flavor, Citric Acid
Why bother paying for this?
All it does is save you 1 minute from adding in your own spices/ingredients
Other anons have already pointed this out, but a base tomato sauce is so quick easy and cheap to make that everyone should be doing it
It's also immeasurably healthier, part of the reason you think it tastes good is the added sugar and salt
Personal favourite for all you out there wasting time and tastebuds on jars
>Can tomato
>Garlic
>Brown onion(diced)
>Carrot(diced)
>Oregano
>Basil
>Cumin(contraversial and unorthodox, but I like it)
>Paprika

>>10642973
Method for the fast food posters here:
>Fry up onions first in a touch of oil, add garlic(if you like strong garlic taste add it later)
>Add the carrot once onion is reduced, if you like it soft add it just after onions, vice versa if you like them crunchy still
>Add can tomato, spices
>Simmer for as long as you want, get pasta/bread/? ready
If you want to add some raw meat, cook at same time as onions
For precooked meat, add in with the tomato
Should of put this is last post, but some paprika is really good even if you don't like spice, it balances out and gets neutered by the tomato

>>10642348
The one on sale - because its about saving money and ease of use not flavor or else I'd make my own.

>>10643051
If you don't care what things taste like then just eat rice and stuff like that ya fucking weirdo.

>>10642384
>pennies
Not if you're doing it right, hon.

It takes 4 cans of these bad boys for mine, and they run about $3/can.

>>10643316
Pic related, the GRAVY.

>>10643316
>$3 for four large cans of tomatoes
>four large cans of tomatoes makes a huge amount of sauce
>Price is pennies per serving
I mean unless you make a giant pot of sauce and eat it all in one sitting.
You don't actually do that...do you?

>>10643333
It doesn't make as much as you would think. 7-8 hours of simmering makes for a lot of reduction.

I mean it's still cheaper and massively better than buying jarred sauces but I think pennies per serving is a bit of a stretch.

>>10642348

>newman's own
>cheap

where the fuck do you live? most pasta sauces are the exact same shit and you can make your own that tastes basically the same in 30 minutes

>>10642910
Post the recipe you settled on so I can make it. My grandmother is directly from Italy so I'm like half Italian but I've never made homemade sauce in my life.

>>10643449
>tastes basically the same in 30 minutes
>tastes the same
Exactly why I'll just buy a jar for like $2.50 instead of buying 8 ingredients that according to /ck/ somehow magically cost pennies and slow cooking it for 6 hours.
>but you're a pleb unless you buy the exact same ingredients and make it yourself
ok hipsters

>>10642858
It's called portion control. Sorry you don't have any discipline. :(

>>10643494
>people on a food and COOKING board called me a pleb because I paid extra for an inferior product when I could have made it better for cheaper by investing a little effort into COOKING it myself
Well god damn.

>sugar
>soybean oil
>garlic powder
>cheese

>>10642348
Newman's Own and Barilla. both cheap and tasty

>>10642390
>Prego is decent enough to doctor up
"no"

>>10643504
Found the fatty.

>>10642348
store brand ragu

>>10643513
>food and COOKING
>and
I love food but I don't give a fuck about cooking, just like I like movies and don't care about tv.
The good canned pasta sauce these days tastes exactly like homemade stuff 90% of the time. I guarantee in a blind taste test you couldn't tell the difference between a good canned sauce made by a company and some shit made by some old grandma in a kitchen for 6 hours

I make my own gravy. A can of pic related, as well as a can of fire roasted tomato sauce/pure. Half a can of paste. Half a cup of red wine of choice(I really like Shiraz) . I let it high simmer for a bit then use a masher on the whole peeled. Season as you see fit. Makes the hardiest, richest gravy for not a whole lot of work in the long run. Kroger just started carrying this brand about a year ago, I haven't gotten anything else since. Would like to ball out and get some San marzos some time though.

>>10644792
I'd also add that it cost about a dollar more than newmans, but makes a,decent bit more when its all said and done.

>>10644503
>The good canned pasta sauce these days tastes exactly like homemade stuff 90% of the time.
How would you know?

I like this with Louisa frozen beef ravioli. bretty gud

>>10643468
good olive oil
kill the onions
salt and black pepper
good (whole) canned tomatoes like >>10643316
fresh basil
reduce to desired consistency
I like some black olives (optional)
use a potato masher to mash it up
serve over bow tie pasta (optional)

>>10646712
I forgot lemon
I really like a bit of lemon juice. If you take 1/2 lemon and give it 2-3 good squeezes it adds some zing that is hard to identify if you are not the cook.

I go real simple most of the time. Plain grandma sauce, or the same thing with more veggies in it. I usually get Tutorosso crushed tomatoes because they are cheap, and are just tomatoes. No sugar or whatever. Not out of brand loyalty. I know they say San Marzano is the way to go. But fuck that noiz.
>olive oil
in the pan
>garlic and crushed red peppers
get em going good.
>you can add other veggies here, or not
Dump the crushed bad bois in
>build em up to a bubbl
Salt and dry herbs in. Pepper, and a pinch of brown sugar.
>cook longer
chop up fresh basil and dump it in before your done
>wa la
My mom used to give us FRANCHESCO RINALDI brand as a kid. I used to like it. But recently got one and it tastes like pure sugar.

>>10643324
damn that looks good.

>>10642384
No

>>10647355
Thanks anon. Here it is in action.

>>10643355

Do you freeze any?

I usually make a a big pot then freeze.

>>10650317
Nah man that shit gets eaten quickly. Chicken parmesan, baked ziti, pizzas (it's not optimal as pizza sauce but it works). I've never had it around long enough for it to go bad in the fridge.

>>10643022
>paprika
>spice
Get a fucking grip paprika isn't spicy at all

>>10650339

I grew up and live in the UK.
Not sure why but tomatoes are pretty pricey here.
Your sauce looks completely on point btw.

>>10650358

You say that but decent paprika can have a real nice burn ime.

>>10650392
You're talking to someone whose only experience with paprika is McCormick shit from Walmart.

Anon couldn't possibly understand that paprika, like any other product, is available in different qualities ranging from shit to god tier. This is some sort of brain malfunction, because anon knows well that his PS4 is not comparable to an Atari 2600. Yet for some reason his pathetic little brain is incapable of extending that logic to the spices he buys.

>>10642348
I make it myself dude, its easy really, get tomato sauce, chop up some onion, add minced meat or tuna from like a can, add white cheese and voila!

>>10650392
>>10650452
Paprika is made of bell peppers you absolute fucking pussies, it's not spicy at all.

Newmans is a solid choice. Straddles the line of organic and it's vastly cheaper. Objectively tastes better than Hunts.

>>10650554
What's the point of doing this? Sometime's it's spicy, sometimes it's not. Relax.

>>10642348
I make my own, because I'm not a brainlet andnstuff innjars and cans sucks ass.

>>10642348
newmans sockarooni is god tier

>>10650643
To make themselves feel superior. Some people can't feel good unless they try to make others feel bad. NEETs don't have much to feel good about so they take what they can get with minutiae that most folks don't care about. Haven't you ever noticed how so many threads start with "my opinion is the best, prove me wrong." And they're never swayed, convinced of their own superiority when it comes to chicken nuggets and soda.